[thechat] Jedi Knight now an official religion in the UK...
Jesus G. Gorriti
Jesus.Gorriti at iconmedialab.es
Tue Oct 9 04:37:07 CDT 2001
> What? With a name like Jesus? <shock> :O
I know I know :) every time I go to a foreign
country I get weird looks at me. :)
> I'm an atheist too, but some people are agnostic. The
> agnostic accepts the
> possibility that god exists, but believes that it is
> impossible to verify it.
Used to be agnostic. Not anymore.
Bruce wrote:
> heh, I just love semantics ;0
I don't. Specially when speaking english.
Bloody language of yours.
> I suppose so... but the real issue for me is that scientific method and
> western religion have a basic and mutually exclusive conflict. Western
> religions state that the existance of God is to be taken on faith and
> the scientific method says that only that which can be proved to exist,
> or can be shown to have a preponderance of evidence indicating it's
> existence, can be said to actually exist.
An old teacher of mine (thermodinamics) explained the
existance of god through the maximum entropy concept.
I stopped listening in the moment he used "faith" as part of his
explanation. :)
And, from my point of view, the issue is not which religion you are
but which are the rules that guide your life. That is: I may be
atheist, but my morals are christian. Which, at the end, are just
based in the "show respect for eveyone else" rule.
Blah. Is too damn early.
/Jesús
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