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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Gal 6:7-8

I believe that the concept of number is a concrete reality. I don't expect to find a "4" lying around somewhere, but that 4 apples lying on the ground is a concrete representation of an abstract concept. An abstract concept that, nonetheless, is external to my thought. I don't have to call it...

You forgot Athens. And for those that want the Middle East thrown in, Palestine....

Some of you may have already read this years ago. It's a distillation of a (slightly) longer piece of satire published by Umberto Eco (an Italian semiotician who also wrote novels such as The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum) in the mid-90's in a weekly column he published. The fuller...

With this, I can't agree. Attaching names to measurements doesn't happen outside of a thinking mind - but measurement is a reflection of something that is actually real and valid - independent of mind. And trying to attach macro concepts to quantum "reality" is foolish since at the quantum...

What would measurement (and quantification) of non-simultaneity look like if not time?

So what's the difference between event A (the first vibration of the atom) and event B (the second vibration) and event N (the Nth vibration of the atom)? Frequency is measuring something. It isn't spatial. The specific atom vibrates at a specific (theoretically fixed) point in space. Vibration...

I'm not talking about clocks....I'm talking about frequency (the inverse of time). What sense does it have if time doesn't exist?

And apparently, MIT is wasting their....umm....er....intangibility? New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely

Why use a Cesium atom to have hyperfine measurements of atomic vibrations if it doesn't mean anything, then? How does one know the vibrations are spaced out at all (let alone equally - since time is supposedly meaningless)?

The nerve...(!)

If time doesn't exist, what did I expend (besides a few precious brain cells) in reading that article? If a materialist scientist can't manipulate something, he wants to deny its existence. I propose that they are trying to deny time because it can be expressed very simply (Methuselah lived for...

Nah...that's a Mazda. The scripture says they were all together in one Accord.

It's been ages since I've been on - and I'm afraid I haven't read all 46 pages of the thread, so if this is a repeat offense, please forgive the repetition. Ultimately, I think the answer is no - but there are probably a lot fewer people who are/will be saved than claim it. Whosoever is born...

Maybe not an inspirational quote, but every now and then you run across something someone has said (or written) that is so bang on that you just have to remember it : “Sorrow is knowledge, they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of...