Mode4Truthguy
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Roger Morneau
Yahweh,
"Thereupon, at his command, we piled mountain upon mountain and on the topmost peak we reared engines which flung molten rocks against the divine habitations. The celestial host was taken unaware and from the abodes of glory there issued groans and cries of terror. And even then we thought to re-enter in triumph on our high estate, but the Mountain of God was wreathed with lightnings, and thunderbolts, falling on our fortress, crushed it to dust. After this fresh disaster, the Seraph remained awhile in meditation, his head buried in his hands. At length he raised his darkened visage. Now he was Satan, greater than Lucifer. Steadfast and loyal the angels thronged about him.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
"And it came to pass that the City was so greatly stirred by this spectacle that the Pope, fearing, not without reason, the birth of a pagan cult from this radiant body, caused it to be removed at night and secretly buried. The precaution was vain, the labour fruitless. After so many centuries of barbarism, the beauty of the antique world had appeared for a moment before the eyes of men; it was long enough for its image, graven on their hearts, to inspire them with an ardent desire to love and to know.
"Henceforth, the star of the God of the Christians paled and sloped to its decline. Bold navigators discovered worlds inhabited by numerous races who knew not old Iahveh, and it was suspected that he was no less ignorant of them, since he had given them no news of himself or of his son the expiator. A Polish Canon demonstrated the true motions of the earth, and it was seen that, far from having created the world, the old demiurge of Israel had not even an inkling of its structure.
The writings of philosophers, orators, jurisconsults, and ancient poets were dragged from the dust of the cloisters and passing from hand to hand inspired menโs minds with the love of wisdom. The Vicar of the jealous God, the Pope himself, no longer believed in Him whom he represented on earth. He loved the arts and had no other care than to collect ancient statues and to rear sumptuous buildings wherein were displayed the orders of Vitruvius re-established by Bramante. We began to breathe anew. Already the old gods, recalled from their long exile, were returning to dwell upon earth. There they found once more their temples and their altars. Leo, placing at their feet the ring, the three crowns, and the keys, offered them in secret the incense of sacrifices.
Already Polyhymnia, leaning on her elbow, had begun to resume the golden thread of her meditations; already, in the gardens, the comely Graces and the Nymphs and Satyrs were weaving their mazy dances, and at length the earth had joy once more within its grasp. But, O calamity, unlucky fate, -- most tragic circumstance! A German monk, all swollen with beer and theology, rose up against this renaissance of paganism, hurled menaces against it, shattered it, and prevailed single handed against the Princes of the Church. Inciting the nations, he called upon them to undertake a reform which saved that which was about to be destroyed. Vainly did the cleverest among us try to turn him from his work. A subtle demon, on earth called Beelzebub, marked him out for attack, now embarrassing him with learned controversial argument, now tormenting him with cruel mockery. The stubborn monk hurled his ink-pot at his head and went on with his dismal reformation. What ultimately happened? The sturdy mariner repaired, calked, and refloated the damaged ship of the Church. Jesus Christ owes it to this shaveling that his shipwreck was delayed for perhaps more than ten centuries. Henceforth things went from bad to worse. In the wake of this loutish monk, this beerswiller and brawler, came that tall, dry doctor from Geneva, who, filled with the spirit of the ancient Iahveh, strove to bring the world back again to the abominable days of Joshua and the Judges of Israel. A maniac was he, filled with cold fury, a heretic and a burner of heretics, the most ferocious enemy of the Graces.
โThese mad apostles and their mad disciples made even demons like myself, even the horned devils, look back longingly on the time when the Son with his Virgin Mother reigned over the nations dazzled with splendours: cathedrals with their stone tracery delicate as lace, flaming roses of stained glass, frescoes painted in vivid colours telling countless wondrous tales, rich orfrays, glittering enamel of shrines and reliquaries, gold of crosses and of monstrances, waxen tapers gleaming like starry galaxies amid the gloom of vaulted arches, organs with their deep-toned harmonies.
All this doubtless was not the Parthenon, nor yet the Panathenรฆa, but it gladdened eyes and hearts; it was, at all events, beauty. And these cursed reformers would not suffer anything either pleasing or lovable. You should have seen them climbing in black swarms over doorways, plinths, spires, and bell - towers, striking with senseless hammers those images in stone which the demons had carved working hand in hand with the master designers, those genial saints and dear, holy women, and the touching idols of Virgin Mothers pressing their suckling to their heart.
For, to be just, a little agreeable paganism had slipped into the cult of the jealous God. These monsters of heretics were for extirpating idolatry. We did our best, my companions and I, to hamper their horrible work, and I, for one, had the pleasure of flinging down some dozens from the top of the porches and galleries on to the Cathedral Square, where their detestable brains got knocked out.
The worst of it was that the Catholic Church also reformed herself and grew more mischievous than ever.
Patricia Smith Churchland: (Boiled down to essentials, a nervous system enables the organism to succeed in the four Fโs: feeding, fleeing, fighting and reproducing. ย The principle chore of nervous systems is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may surviveโฆ..Improvement in sensorimotor control confer an evolutionary advantage: a fancier style of representing is advantageous so long as it is geared to the organismโs way of life and enhances the organisms chances of survival. Truth, whatever that is, definitely takes the hindmost. [2]
Darwin: "But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of manโs mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkeyโs mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?"
https://youtu.be/WloXdTi8Ymg?t=3535 Time already Stamped at @58:55
Alexander Rosenberg - The other problem that we Naturalists face, and it goes back to the discussion of meaning, is a naturalistic account of semantic meaning, and Naturalists have been working for at least 50 years on this subject and with no interesting agreed upon consensus. And here there is a divide of which Terre represents a significant path. If we assume that the intentionality of written inscriptions and vocal disturbances in the air is due to the original intentionality of brain states then we need an account of how brain states can represent, can be semantically evaluable, can have Truth values, can express propositions via some kind of inscriptional devices, - At least so far we have not had an entirely satisfactory account of how that's possible, - and my own view which stems from reading a book called 'Content and Consciousness' a long time ago is that owing to the fact that our brains are Darwinian systems, we will never have such an account.
2 schools of thought
1: We have not had a satisfactory account of how it's possible to explain the origin of reasoning.
2: We will never have an explanation for the Origin of Reasoning.
Darwin: "But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of manโs mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkeyโs mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?"
Patricia Smith Churchland: (Boiled down to essentials, a nervous system enables the organism to succeed in the four Fโs: feeding, fleeing, fighting and reproducing. ย The principle chore of nervous systems is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may surviveโฆ..Improvement in sensorimotor control confer an evolutionary advantage: a fancier style of representing is advantageous so long as it is geared to the organismโs way of life and enhances the organisms chances of survival. Truth, whatever that is, definitely takes the hindmost. [2]
https://youtu.be/WloXdTi8Ymg?t=3535 Time already Stamped at @58:55
Alexander Rosenberg - The other problem that we Naturalists face, and it goes back to the discussion of meaning, is a naturalistic account of semantic meaning, and Naturalists have been working for at least 50 years on this subject and with no interesting agreed upon consensus. And here there is a divide of which Terre represents a significant path. If we assume that the intentionality of written inscriptions and vocal disturbances in the air is due to the original intentionality of brain states then we need an account of how brain states can represent, can be semantically evaluable, can have Truth values, can express propositions via some kind of inscriptional devices, - At least so far we have not had an entirely satisfactory account of how that's possible, - and my own view which stems from reading a book called 'Content and Consciousness' a long time ago is that owing to the fact that our brains are Darwinian systems, we will never have such an account.
2 schools of thought
1: We have not had a satisfactory account of how it's possible to explain the origin of reasoning.
2: We will never have an explanation for the Origin of Reasoning.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
2 schools of thought
1: We have not had a satisfactory account of how it's possible to explain the origin of reasoning.
2: We will never have an explanation for the Origin of Reasoning.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
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