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Ok, I'm sorry, but are you now willing to cede that this post was pure revisionist history? E.g....

1. If you really understood even the first thing about Bohmian QM, you would be steeped in mathematical reasoning.
2. Unless your "atheist-looking-for-answers" phase was in your pre-teens, it obviously did not precede notable exposure to the Gospels.

...I mean, seriously. Seriously. That post did not describe a real-life timeline. Just admit it.

My family is predominantly Catholic and I attended a Catholic high school. So I was exposed to religion, but sometime around realizing the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Santa Claus weren’t actually real, I started thinking the same way about God. On the other hand, I don’t care much for math, so you’re correct on that account, anyway.

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10-24-2011 , 05:53 AM

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I don’t care much for math

Repent and you'll be saved.

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10-24-2011 , 08:47 AM

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I’m not sure. What started all this was my proposition, “no thing is possibly in existence,” or “some thing cannot possibly exist.” So, what exactly am I saying, or can I even say what I’m saying below?

1. ⟡(Big Bang’s singularity → necessarily, no thing is in existence.)
2. ⟡(Big Bang’s singularity → necessarily, some thing is not in existence.)
3. ⟡(Big Bang’s singularity → possibly, no thing is in existence.)
4. ⟡(Big Bang’s singularity → possibly, some thing is not in existence.)

As an aside, I’ve been reading a bit on the tense operators (F, P, G & H) and I think they’ll better serve what I’m trying to accomplish. (Once I figure out how to properly form propositions in modern logic, that is.)

Yeah, that is not the strict conditional so I guess not.

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10-24-2011 , 02:46 PM

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My family is predominantly Catholic and I attended a Catholic high school. So I was exposed to religion, but sometime around realizing the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Santa Claus weren’t actually real, I...as an atheist-agnostic I kind of perused the general metaphysical schemas and put together a worldview that seems like the best available description of reality, without really paying too much attention to theology.

Oh, ok, I see. It rings true now.

Edit - Indeed, when I read, "[P]erused* the general metaphysical schemas"; I nearly always conjure a 12-year-old skeptically fingering his last deciduous tooth, wiping cookie crumbs from a dog-eared Summa Theologica, cursing the difficulty of finishing Being and Time before bedtime at 9:00. And the eternal goddamn tedium of 6th grade social studies...

* pe·ruse /pəˈruz/
verb (used with object), -rused, -rus·ing.

1. to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
2. to read.
3. to survey or examine in detail.

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10-24-2011 , 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Subfallen

I nearly always conjure a 12-year-old skeptically fingering his last deciduous tooth, wiping cookie crumbs from a dog-eared Summa Theologica, cursing the difficulty of finishing Being and Time before bedtime at 9:00. And the eternal goddamn tedium of 6th grade social studies...

LOL. I’m glad I didn’t mention my passing interest in Nietzsche. You would’ve had me pegged as a 5 year-old nihilist.

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