tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post7311443297372593693..comments2024-03-29T11:55:43.620-04:00Comments on My perspective -- What Constance thinks: We must do better -- well said video presentationConstance Cumbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07181096121385621574noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-18081003280106976552018-06-05T21:57:51.009-04:002018-06-05T21:57:51.009-04:00ed hardy
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Thank you so much for your response.
I ca...Hey Doc,<br />Thank you so much for your response.<br />I can't say I truly understand all<br />of it but I appreciate the effort to <br />explain some of these things to<br />a layman such as me.<br /><br />I will say that even I can see through<br />the obvious esoteric bull crap that<br />constitutes the New Age attempts at<br />co-opting these theories and <br />discoveries for the magical <br />mystical wooley agenda that they <br />are busy trying to pull over everyones <br />eyes these days. <br />From Helen Blavatsky to Benjamin <br />Creme etc, etc, to this Quantum <br />Consciousness mob, they always <br />try to sound scientific when that's <br />the last think that they are.paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-89144163054792645202012-03-03T10:35:51.228-05:002012-03-03T10:35:51.228-05:00Dear anonymous 4:26 AM
Re: Such old-style materia...Dear anonymous 4:26 AM<br /><br />Re: <i>Such old-style materialist modernists still have a role to play in combatting New Age postmodernists and although I am a Christian I will gladly ally with them for that particular purpose.</i><br /><br />This is <b>exactly</b> what I was thinking when I quoted the essay.<br /><br />Truth cannot be invented. It can only be discovered. And if something is objectively true, it will be true no matter who discovers it - including the PSICOP people with whom I will also gladly ally for that particular purpose.<br /><br />While it may be true that the subatomic "hidden variables" can be influenced by the <b>physical</b> instruments used in validly scientific observation, the Quantum Consciousness crew has invented the myth that they can affect the behavior and/or even the existence of "hidden variables" by exclusively observing them with their minds.....as if by a kind of subatomic telekinesis. <br /><br />In other words, their minds, according to the myth, seem to be the "causal" factor in the existence and/or behavior of hidden variables.<br /><br />To my knowledge, there is no solid evidence that the human mind <b>naturally</b> has this capability.<br /><br />Once the Quantum Consciousness crowd gets away with this, it isn't long before they intellectually expand upon the myth to include the rest of "reality."<br /><br />This is why the Quantum Consciousness crowd mustn't be allowed to get away with peddling their myth unchallenged.<br /><br />The thing that I find especially infuriating is that some who are promoting the "Quantum Consciousness" myth are doing so while calling themselves "physicists."Susannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-71010540295723801612012-03-03T04:26:32.583-05:002012-03-03T04:26:32.583-05:00Susanna,
I am the physicist who just responded to...Susanna,<br /><br />I am the physicist who just responded to Paul, and my own reply to the quantum mechanics/consciousness crew is simply that until consciousness is defined in terms of the variables which enter the equations of quantum theory then nothing has been said.<br /><br />Their argument is no better than this: here's something we don't understand (quantum theory predicting only statistically); here's something else we don't understand (consciousness; THEREFORE they must be related. Very clearly a Non Sequitur.<br /><br />Incidentally, victor Stenger, whom you quote, is one of the CSICOP people, ie a Skeptic of the supernatural. He has written harsh words against the Christian faith. Such old-style materialist modernists still have a role to play in combatting New Age postmodernists and although I am a Christian I will gladly ally with them for that particular purpose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-21492515538838099992012-03-02T22:50:48.897-05:002012-03-02T22:50:48.897-05:00Anonymous 3:59 AM
Re: I am willing to bet that a ...Anonymous 3:59 AM<br /><br />Re: <i>I am willing to bet that a hidden-variable theory will eventually be found - if anyone is prepared to look - which is consistent with general relativity in a very natural way. Unhappily, though, not many people are looking.</i><br /><br />And during the time when not many people are looking in terms of valid scientific inquiry, in walks the New age with its myth of "Quantum Consciousness".<br /><br /><i>Quantum mechanics is called on further to argue that the cosmic field, like<br />Newton’s aether, couples to the human mind itself. In Robert Lanza’s view, that<br />field is the universal mind of all humanity - living, dead, and unborn. Ironically,<br />this seemingly profound association between quantum and mind is an artifact, the<br />consequence of unfortunate language used by Bohr, Heisenberg and the others who<br />originally formulated quantum mechanics. In describing the necessary interaction<br />between the observer and what is being observed, and how the state of a system is<br />determined by the act of its measurement, they inadvertently left the impression<br />that human consciousness enters the picture to cause that state come into being.<br />This led many who did not understand the physics, but liked the sound of the words<br />used to describe it, to infer a fundamental human role in what was previously a<br />universe that seemed to have need for neither gods nor humanity.<br />If Bohr and Heisenberg had spoken of measurements made by inanimate<br />instruments rather than “observers,” perhaps this strained relationship between<br />quantum and mind would not have been drawn. For, nothing in quantum<br />mechanics requires human involvement.</i>...read more...<br /><br />http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy<br />/vstenger/Quantum/QuantumConscious<br />ness.pdfSusannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-53253426043703428942012-03-02T03:59:03.480-05:002012-03-02T03:59:03.480-05:00Paul,
My postdoctoral research was on information...Paul,<br /><br />My postdoctoral research was on information theory and entropy in physics, and I don't believe any of the attempts to base fundamental physics on information. This is a fundamental category error. Information is epistemological, physics is about ontology. In everyday language, you have information about something, ie about a physical system. But the information you have about your car is not the car itself, is it? This kind of confusion could never have happened in the era when Western culture, out of which science emerged, was grounded in a biblical worldview that accepted objective physical reality.<br /><br />It is true that general relativity and quantum theory do not go well together. My answer - admittedly a minority view - is not string theory, but a closer look at quantum theory. It was the first theory that physicists came up with in which the symbols in the equations were not in 1:L1 correspondence with observable quantities 'out there'. for the first time, as a result, the philosophical worldview held by physicists became important. Quantum theory was a great advance, which answered some otherwise unanswerable questions and in some areas permitted prediction to match experiment to better than 1 part in a thousand million, with no known error (the limits are technological, in the experimental apparatus). But it also answered some questions only probabilistically, ie it can tell you only the proportions of electrons going one way or another in a "Stern-Gerlach" experiment". 20th century physicists settled for "that's the best you can do." But I maintain that it is the task of physicists to ask questions such as "Where will the NEXT electron go"? To get an answer you need a "hidden-variable" theory in which the quantum answers are statistical averages over the hidden variables which decide what the next electron will do. In the 19060s John Bell showed that any hidden variables which reproduce the quantum predictions as averages have to have some weird properties, ie, they are all in contact with each other throughout the universe. In that case it is remarkable that we can isolate and partially predict what single systems will do. But that's the way it is. I am willing to bet that a hidden-variable theory will eventually be found - if anyone is prepared to look - which is consistent with general relativity in a very natural way. Unhappily, though, not many people are looking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-66482312345512114512012-03-01T12:51:47.998-05:002012-03-01T12:51:47.998-05:00Dear Anon 7:43
I'm kind of surprised that you&...Dear Anon 7:43<br />I'm kind of surprised that you'd even <br />respond to the very amateur likes of <br />me, so thank you.<br />My problem is that I've read the latest<br />cover story of Scientific American, <br />FOUR TIMES and each time I'm a little<br />more confused.<br />Let me try to explain what I've <br />gleaned from the article.<br />The two 20th century theories,<br />General Relativity, and Quantum <br />Theory, are both no longer considered <br />theories but rather established facts.<br />Okey. But these two established facts <br />are so far irreconcilable. Okey.<br />Meanwhile the new theory called The <br />Holographic Principle is also pretty<br />much accepted by everyone. <br />The Holographic Principle states that <br />everything in the universe emerges, in <br />three dimensions, from information <br />which is stored on the two-dimensional<br />"Light Sheet" which is described as a<br />bubble collapsing at the speed of light.<br />Furthermore, this light sheet, which <br />stores everything as information, not <br />only records everything, but in fact<br />everything emerges from it.<br />What ?<br />Oh, and the latest theory of the entire <br />cosmos is that space is not smooth<br />like the old notion of an ether, but <br />space itself is in fact made of tiny bits,<br />described as "foamlike"? and binary, <br />in other words, it's essentially all <br />based on information, or data, exactly <br />like everything in a computer. The <br />universe in fact is a hologram? <br />An illusion of sorts? <br /> <br />My Christian mind says okey, God <br />created the universe out of light.<br />I get that. In fact everything is made<br />out of light. I believe that too. Gerald<br />Schroeder explained that to me, and<br />it's beautiful. Gerald Schroeder is <br />deeply Theistic himself and I find <br />that comforting. He's into the Talmud<br />but, hey, what do I know ? <br />But the universe is a hologram?<br />Oh, and if you were to put one quantum<br />in a cube, which was one Planke length<br />on each side, it would weigh more <br />than a black hole....? What ?<br />Iy Yi Yi !<br />Doc, help me.paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-90954551726757063832012-03-01T08:46:50.014-05:002012-03-01T08:46:50.014-05:00Let's say for the sake of argument that John t...Let's say for the sake of argument that John the Baptist was Elijah. However, Elijah was swept up in a whirlwind, never to be seen again. So...he never really died in the normal way people die. So...can this be considered true reincarnation? (As a side note, if God has the power to resurrect, He certainly has the power to reincarnate. However, the Bible just doesn't support God doing this.) I think, the reference Jesus made to John the Baptist being Elijah, or rather having the spirit of Elijah (which had passed on to the prophet Elisha), is somewhat of a mystery. Everything will be revealed in its own time! Or God's time, that is.OccupyAquarius?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-7223742892908527942012-02-29T23:31:58.232-05:002012-02-29T23:31:58.232-05:00Happy 29th Birthday, Constance!! May the good Lord...Happy 29th Birthday, Constance!! May the good Lord bless and protect you another 29 years!!<br /><br />Viva Christos Rey,<br /><br />CatherineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-83372544883631814292012-02-29T20:11:41.397-05:002012-02-29T20:11:41.397-05:00I think Paul was saying that judgement that comes ...I think Paul was saying that judgement that comes might involve reincarnation, which would make it a curse, "go thou be a disgusting pig or slimey disease laden whatnot for your sins!"<br /><br />but still it says we die ONCE. <br /><br />Now of course at this point you could argue, that since one who is resurrected such as those Jesus brought back to life, would have eventually died again, clearly, these did not die just once. neither did they reincarnate. <br /><br />The pattern Paul showed was to answer questions presented to him without repeating the question, or not often. So it is likely that this curt standalone comment was in response to a question about reincarnation or transmigration of souls.Christine Erikson (aka Justina)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11594093718714798117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-35574446331352410122012-02-29T19:43:54.605-05:002012-02-29T19:43:54.605-05:00Paul,
Please explain how Hebrews (not Corinthians...Paul,<br /><br />Please explain how Hebrews (not Corinthians) 9:27 does not necessarily rule out reincarnation; I can't make sense of what you are saying.<br /><br />It is fashionable for some research physicists to say time is an illusion; but not the research physicist writing this. What they mean is that you get a better understanding of the physics by considering all time rolled out before you, just as you consider all space to be rolled out - after all, time and space are intimately connected, as Einstein taught us. But not even Einstein explained why time appears to PASS, yet space doesn't. And that is why I dissent from those other physicists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-55938889784255962552012-02-29T18:10:24.772-05:002012-02-29T18:10:24.772-05:00Happy birthday Constance!Happy birthday Constance!Christine Erikson (aka Justina)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11594093718714798117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-68832708827547959022012-02-29T16:43:12.797-05:002012-02-29T16:43:12.797-05:00Happy Birthday Constance! Wishing you many more!
...Happy Birthday Constance! Wishing you many more!<br /><br />Dave in CAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-22815873762118241142012-02-29T16:17:43.049-05:002012-02-29T16:17:43.049-05:00Dear "a pal"
Thank you for your comment
...Dear "a pal"<br />Thank you for your comment<br />and concern. I'm most definitely <br />NOT going to fall into Hinduism <br />or New Age hokum of any kind.<br />But you said that the Corinthian <br />quote ends all discussion about <br />reincarnation.<br />I'm just not so sure about that, <br />considering what Jesus said <br />regarding John the Baptist, plus<br />his question to his own disciples,<br />which implies that the notion of<br />reincarnation was commonly known<br />to them and that Jesus never <br />specifically disclaimed it.<br />Also I think that the events at <br />the Transfiguration: Moses and <br />Elijah stand there speaking with<br /> Jesus, says a lot, though I don't <br />claim to know for sure, (as you do),<br />just what that does say.<br /><br />Yes, it is appointed to men to die <br />once, and yes after this does come<br />the judgement, but exactly how is <br />judgement meted out ? Should I take <br />my cues from Dante, as practically <br />everyone has since the fifteenth <br />century ? <br />Science keeps telling me that time <br />itself is the biggest illusion of all.<br />Maybe there is only eternity and <br />judgement is ongoing. <br /><br />I don't know. But I'm not an <br />Agnostic.<br />I do know the Truth. It's Jesus.<br />_But I'm not a Gnostic.<br />I believe the Bible. Word for word.<br />_But it's a huge book.<br />Gnostic/Agnostic= false dichotomy.<br />I'm almost sure of that.paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-59689665811688376732012-02-29T16:02:43.975-05:002012-02-29T16:02:43.975-05:00Dear Constance,
HAPPY "17th" BIRTHDAY!!...Dear Constance,<br /><br />HAPPY "17th" BIRTHDAY!!!!!!Susannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-85836896720964634952012-02-29T15:40:13.188-05:002012-02-29T15:40:13.188-05:00I don't know what's going on here. The &q...I don't know what's going on here. The "collapse comments" feature is not a link as before. Did the OCCUPY MOVEMENT get ahold of the blog? Did it happen to all others?<br />Anyway, I'm officially 17 effective today, February 29th!<br /><br />ConstanceConstance Cumbeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181096121385621574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-35737467555968886182012-02-29T15:37:47.695-05:002012-02-29T15:37:47.695-05:00http://www.billygraham.org/articlepage.asp?article...http://www.billygraham.org/articlepage.asp?articleid=8496&BA=2572&QR=117<br /><br />I think this is an excellent letter written by Franklin Graham in his website on "political correctness gone amok". I think what he is saying is very true and I admire his courage to stand up on this issue.John Rupp, Jr.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-5621882874245998092012-02-29T14:23:12.270-05:002012-02-29T14:23:12.270-05:00"Why don´t you watch the video before comment..."Why don´t you watch the video before commenting?"<br />Because I already have heard of this analysis.<br /><br />okay, i watched it. But there is still this problem. it is called Sodom, not Babylon, and the latter is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth. <br /><br />exactly when and how would that fit Jerusalem? <br /><br />Sure there are parallels, but there are failures as well. Babylon is a major importer and consumer of goods, such that all the merchants of the earth are upset at her destruction, and the smoke is visible from far off.<br /><br />And what are the ten nations or rulers that support Jerusalem? <br /><br />That thing about when surrounded by armies and flee into the hills, was fulfilled in AD 70. <br /><br />I suppose it is possible that someday by some disaster or artificial means, Jerusalem might become a major port city, a huge canal running from the coast to the city itself.Christine Erikson (aka Justina)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11594093718714798117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-56990549907170425402012-02-29T14:03:05.711-05:002012-02-29T14:03:05.711-05:00Yes Christine Erikzion, why is Zionist Anti-Christ...Yes Christine Erikzion, why is Zionist Anti-Christian Freemasonic Israel so intent on wiping Iran off the map as it has done to Palestine?<br /><br />Open your eyes!! No, I´m not Anti-Semitic. No, I´m not Anti-Christian (I´m Christian) and no, I´m not Anti-Pauline Chrisitanity, unlike Thomas Jefferson (Illuminist-deist) & SMOM Stan Monteith!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-34948380903969822962012-02-29T13:57:56.514-05:002012-02-29T13:57:56.514-05:00Christine Cumbey-Erikson wrote (it´s her blogspot,...Christine Cumbey-Erikson wrote (it´s her blogspot, after all!): "Revelation refers to Jerusalem as Sodom. Babylon is something very different -..."<br /><br />Why don´t you watch the video before commenting?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-74585734085254423512012-02-29T13:57:42.111-05:002012-02-29T13:57:42.111-05:00Christine Cumbey-Erikson wrote (it´s her blogspot,...Christine Cumbey-Erikson wrote (it´s her blogspot, after all!): "Revelation refers to Jerusalem as Sodom. Babylon is something very different -..."<br /><br />Why don´t you watch the video before commenting?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-16715828780037777572012-02-29T13:04:16.859-05:002012-02-29T13:04:16.859-05:00"I HAVE commented on prayer for the dead. I s..."I HAVE commented on prayer for the dead. I said that it *might* make a difference to them while they are in Hades awaiting the day of judgement (which lies ahead for both the living and the dead, who are conscious in Hades). But it can't alter their final destination after judgement, which was settled at their bodily death. All of that I gave scriptures for in earlier posts."<br /><br />The Scriptures are ambiguous. After all, are we not going to be judged for our actions in the flesh, with the judgement being in some cases forgiven because of repentance and conversion to Christ? <br /><br />Likewise, the dead are as guilty and unable to undo anything, to make it not have happened, as we the living are, but perhaps they might if God hears us and gives them repentance and conversion, be saved from the lake of fire? <br /><br />Jesus describes the Last Judgement as a time when some among the condemned would have it worse and some better, Sodom and Gomorrah would have it better than Tyre and Sidon because they would have repented if given the opportunities that Tyre and Sidon had, and did not repent. Some hypocrites are described as to receive "the greater damnation" which implies there is a lesser damnation. <br /><br />Luther chose to 86 Maccabees because it described prayer and sacrifice made for the dead, that they be forgiven in the resurrection for their sins they were discovered after death to have been doing. This he felt supported RC purgatory so he got rid of it. In fact, it shows that among the Jews loyal to YHWH there was a belief in the relevance of this.Christine Erikson (aka Justina)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11594093718714798117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772087.post-40158682149215682352012-02-29T12:20:59.612-05:002012-02-29T12:20:59.612-05:00I'm holding out for resurrection, not reincarn...I'm holding out for resurrection, not reincarnation!OccupyAquarius?noreply@blogger.com