Well the Lord did assign to humankind the chore of naming.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:28 pm Well the Lord did assign to humankind the chore of naming.

No such think moi. No lord no god or gods. Ernie

Ernie of Maine (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:41 pm No such think moi. No lord no god or gods. Ernie

What about "the Great Tree" all you Mainite or Mainians worship.

Will Pluto loose his lordship over the underworld because he lost his planet?

Will Mickey lose his dog?

What's it all mean, Ernie? Just a void of godlessness.

I suspect that Pluto and his merry band of moons is going to continue serenely zipping their way through the cosmos, utterly indifferent to any opinions of ours about their status or label.

Transward

Ernie of Maine (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:41 pm No such think moi. No lord no god or gods. Ernie

Alas, I may have committed the unforgivable sin of having studied science, and engineering as applied science, and applied science using the methodology of testable, refutable-if-false, hypothesis construction.

"No lord no god or gods" has, perhaps with tragic insanity, come to my mind in the form of a testable and refutable-if-false hypothesis.

I use the null-hypothesis, alternate-hypothesis approach, wherein the null and alternate hypotheses are constructed so as to form a pure dichotomy such that refuting (falsifying) the null hypothesis establishes (proves as true) the alternate hypothesis. This approach was rather well elaborated by folks such as Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, and a plethora of others.

The null hypothesis is that there is no lord or god or gods. The alternate hypothesis is that there is at least one lord or god. Demonstrating the actual existence of one lord or god actually falsifies the null hypothesis and thereby proves the existence of at least one lord or god.

The next line of this post will unambiguously demonstrate the actual existence of one god, thereby falsifying the alternate hypothesis that there is no lord or god.

0010000111001101111001100100

Therefore, the existence of one god is unambiguously demonstrated.

What is, "0010000111001101111001100100"? It is binary for ASCII octal 107 157 144. What are the Roman alphabet characters which correspond to ASCII octal 107 157 144? "God"...

And it gets worse, much worse.

Because "0010000111001101111001100100" is not identical with "107 157 144" octal and because "107 157 144" octal is not identical with "God," is not the existence of the trinity thereby also proved if the null hypothesis for the hypothesis that the trinity exists is that no trinity exists. The existence of a trinity having been demonstrated, the notion that there is no trinity is herewith falsified.

Blaise Pascal, you have my permission to turn over in your grave three times, thereby also proving the existence of the trinity.

Thanks to the law of non-contradiction, no symbol can be what it symbolizes.

Hume, please do not fume!

...

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:59 am Lets see, I have tried my best to insult Science, Fiction, and God, all in one post, not bad at all.

River

I can best YOU in this insult of Scienc

Ernie of Maine (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:41 pm e, Fiction, and God with just one word...

SCIENT

OLOGY!

No such think moi. No lord no god or gods. Ernie

Ye DO error, sir in not considering the mentioning of the names Dubya, Dic

janekane (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:13 am k Cheney or Mitt Romney.

You see, every time you mention any of their names somebody always exclaims...

"OH GOD!!!"

Alas, I may have committed the unforgivable sin of having studied science, and engineering as applied science, and applied science using the methodology of testable, refutable-if-false, hypothesis construction.

"No lord no god or gods" has, perhaps with tragic insanity, come to my mind in the form of a testable and refutable-if-false hypothesis.

I use the null-hypothesis, alternate-hypothesis approach, wherein the null and alternate hypotheses are constructed so as to form a pure dichotomy such that refuting (falsifying) the null hypothesis establishes (proves as true) the alternate hypothesis. This approach was rather well elaborated by folks such as Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, and a plethora of others.

The null hypothesis is that there is no lord or god or gods. The alternate hypothesis is that there is at least one lord or god. Demonstrating the actual existence of one lord or god actually falsifies the null hypothesis and thereby proves the existence of at least one lord or god.

The next line of this post will unambiguously demonstrate the actual existence of one god, thereby falsifying the alternate hypothesis that there is no lord or god.

0010000111001101111001100100

Therefore, the existence of one god is unambiguously demonstrated.

What is, "0010000111001101111001100100"? It is binary for ASCII octal 107 157 144. What are the Roman alphabet characters which correspond to ASCII octal 107 157 144? "God"...

And it gets worse, much worse.

Because "0010000111001101111001100100" is not identical with "107 157 144" octal and because "107 157 144" octal is not identical with "God," is not the existence of the trinity thereby also proved if the null hypothesis for the hypothesis that the trinity exists is that no trinity exists. The existence of a trinity having been demonstrated, the notion that there is no trinity is herewith falsified.

Blaise Pascal, you have my permission to turn over in your grave three times, thereby also proving the existence o

f the trinity.

Thanks to the law of non-contradiction, no symbol can be what it symbolizes.

Hume, please do not fume!

Dammit, stop talking above our heads and convert this BINARY or OCTAL to a BASE 10 number RIGHT away!!!

Moi, to us old guys Pluto will always be the ninth planet, to the kids growing up it will be 8 planets. Its like a gallbladder, you have one then you don't.

Nothing to get upset about, it just is.

River

A-1 (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:00 am I can best YOU in this insult of Scienc

e, Fiction, and God with just one word...

SCIENTOLOGY!

A-1 (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:00 am Ye DO error, sir in not considering the mentioning of the names Dubya, Dic

k Cheney or Mitt Romney.

You see, every time you mention any of their names somebody always exclaims...

"OH GOD!!!"

A-1 (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:00 am Dammit, stop talking above our heads and convert this BINARY or OCTAL to a BASE 10 number RIGHT away!!!

Sorry for leaving out base-10. "107 157 144" in octal is "71 111 100" in base-10. Only, now we have the "quadity" or "quadrinity" instead of the "trinity"?

Careful, now, surely you would not seek to get me to put a hexadecimal on you? Isn't hexadecimal the math sometimes used by evil spirits, such as computer programmers?

Binary or base 16 - base 10 (boring).

OK the truth is out, I was a programmer.

So who remembers the old tab cards? how many of you could read the holes?

Last question, how many of you have a binary Clock?

I do.

River

Base 10 isn't always boring. I made a metric clock once and placed it up above a map of the world of which I had had divided into ten time zones which I designated as "the ten didges" short for the ten decigyros. Ten gyros in a "deck" (dekagyro). And if you will excuse me now I have to look up what "midge" it is.