SLD
Contributor
I’m sitting in a Coffee shop reading some mathematics and physics - which is why I posted the Three body problem in the math forum. IAE, sitting nearby are a man and woman studying the Bible - not sure if they are a couple.They are discussing what constitutes the promised land under the Bible, and thus whether Israel has a “right” to Gaza and the West Bank. They are reviewing the Bible to determine what is and what isn’t in the so called promised land - biblical geography.
In the meantime, I am Trying to figure out the three body problem and some Lagrangian formulation of mechanics so I can better understand quantum physics.
I can’t help turning that these people aren’t stupid, but they are engaging and focusing on a pointless and useless intellectual exercise. I mean what a waste of intellectual talent!
I look closely at the man, and I can’t be entirely sure as his back is turned to me, but I believe he is US Congressman Roger Aderholt. Republican obviously. Gotta love Jesus to get elected around here. I know he’s been to this coffee house before even though his district is north of here.
I’ve talked to him once and he seems reasonable and well informed. But this obsession with the Bible and Jesus around here really bothers me. People seem so obsessed with understanding the Bible rather than our world around us, or making it a just and peaceful place. We need to make the world like god has ordered and if someone disagrees, then war is an appropriate response. All religions believe this, and many other stupid non theistic philosophies. (China thinks that it is entitled to the nine dashed line.).
I think this disproves libertarian principles entirely. Humans are not fundamentally economical in their approach to life. They don’t really maximize profits. But they may be trying, however misguided, to maximize their reproductive potential. Maybe killing others maximizes your genetic potential to fill t space left over by killing others. Religion is the rationale for such.
Religion really poisons everything. John Adams once said that a world without religion would be hell. I don’t think I can agree. Voltaire said that if the gods did not exits we would have to invent them. Maybe. Marx called religion the opiate of the masses. I am not a communist, but he was a smart man. Do the great masses need god to be kept in line?
I want to interject myself into some of these conversations or sometimes when I see someone studying the Bible just sit down and ask them why. But I refrain.
He just turned around. It is him.
OK, I don’t know where I am going with this other than I really wish religion would die off maybe. Or at least organized religion. I wish that people would focus their energies on making this a just earth and solving advanced scientific problems. But maybe most of us are simply incapable of doing so. I doubt I will ever solve some great scientific problem. I’m too old and long ago chose other paths.
In the meantime, I am Trying to figure out the three body problem and some Lagrangian formulation of mechanics so I can better understand quantum physics.
I can’t help turning that these people aren’t stupid, but they are engaging and focusing on a pointless and useless intellectual exercise. I mean what a waste of intellectual talent!
I look closely at the man, and I can’t be entirely sure as his back is turned to me, but I believe he is US Congressman Roger Aderholt. Republican obviously. Gotta love Jesus to get elected around here. I know he’s been to this coffee house before even though his district is north of here.
I’ve talked to him once and he seems reasonable and well informed. But this obsession with the Bible and Jesus around here really bothers me. People seem so obsessed with understanding the Bible rather than our world around us, or making it a just and peaceful place. We need to make the world like god has ordered and if someone disagrees, then war is an appropriate response. All religions believe this, and many other stupid non theistic philosophies. (China thinks that it is entitled to the nine dashed line.).
I think this disproves libertarian principles entirely. Humans are not fundamentally economical in their approach to life. They don’t really maximize profits. But they may be trying, however misguided, to maximize their reproductive potential. Maybe killing others maximizes your genetic potential to fill t space left over by killing others. Religion is the rationale for such.
Religion really poisons everything. John Adams once said that a world without religion would be hell. I don’t think I can agree. Voltaire said that if the gods did not exits we would have to invent them. Maybe. Marx called religion the opiate of the masses. I am not a communist, but he was a smart man. Do the great masses need god to be kept in line?
I want to interject myself into some of these conversations or sometimes when I see someone studying the Bible just sit down and ask them why. But I refrain.
He just turned around. It is him.
OK, I don’t know where I am going with this other than I really wish religion would die off maybe. Or at least organized religion. I wish that people would focus their energies on making this a just earth and solving advanced scientific problems. But maybe most of us are simply incapable of doing so. I doubt I will ever solve some great scientific problem. I’m too old and long ago chose other paths.