There is nothing logically inconsistent with an electron displaying wave and particle properties.
Paradox: a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true. — khaled
These are examples of things that seem not to make sense. What's being asked here is entirely different from creating an electron that behaves two different ways. It is asking for something that doesn't make sense. Something that can't exist by definition. — khaled
Do you talk about whether religious arguments become obsolete over time? If so, no doubt.
This happened with the pantheistic religion of the ancient roman civilization. Over the centuries, and with the absence of any proof that the Gods - or in the case of monotheism, God - exists, civilization begins to doubt the figure of worship, and eventually, the arguments that support its religion. It is not by chance that the roman pantheon raised and brought down several Gods of the title of the highest deity - Jupiter, Heliogabalus, Sol Invictus, etc ... -. One of the weaknesses of any religion - it seems to me - is that it is partly founded on the belief that metaphysical events can - and should - manifest in the real world, which does not happen. — Gus Lamarch
As far as I'm aware, Heliogabalus was another name for Elagabalus, one of the more curious Roman emperors. — Ciceronianus the White
You seem to insist that Christianity is the basis for all that is best in Western Civilization, while acknowledging its problems in (I think) a rather dismissive fashion. — Ciceronianus the White
You also seem hesitant to acknowledge the great debt Christianity owes to ancient pagan thought and civilization (being largely based on it and having incorporated it) and their influence on the West. — Ciceronianus the White
I seem to be an extreme defender of Christianity, but in reality we live in a time where it has become the rule to defame your own past, and I wont allow it. — Gus Lamarch
A canny fellow, Constantine, but not one of my favorites among the emperors. — Ciceronianus the White
Not to spend too much time on religion, but the transition from traditional paganism to Christianity in the Empire is something I find fascinating. — Ciceronianus the White
especially the cult of Mithras regarding which we know very little. — Ciceronianus the White
One of the weaknesses of any religion - it seems to me - is that it is partly founded on the belief that metaphysical events can - and should - manifest in the real world, which does not happen. — Gus Lamarch
Rather, religions are weakened by a loss of meaning, which can result from metaphysical events failing to manifest. — praxis
Meaning can be lost in many ways but the general thrust is simply that we eventually outgrow childish things. — praxis
Why do we eventually tell children that there's no Santa Claus? Because it's time for them to grow up. — praxis
What if they let themselves be blinded by another idea for the simple fact that they cannot stand their existence without purpose? — Gus Lamarch
This is the problem in our current society. — Gus Lamarch
We are denying your "Santa Claus" but we are not putting anything new in its place. — Gus Lamarch
Look at the current democratically elected leader of the free world and tell me that we live in a mature society. — praxis
Then obviously they haven’t sufficiently matured. — praxis
One of the inescapable failings of religion is that it cannot extend beyond the tribe or in-group. — praxis
We have been living in the "Dominatus" for longer than everyone thinks ... He is not the worst, there are still worst rulers to come - at least for the mean time, I'm in a privileged position - here in Brazil - to watch the fall of the West - commonly known as Europe and North America -. — Gus Lamarch
I'm not getting your use of "maturity" to criticize the institutions of order of humanity. In what respect has humanity really matured? In relation to whom? We are what we are, the only thing going foward is time... — Gus Lamarch
One of the inescapable failings of religion is that it cannot extend beyond the tribe or in-group.
— praxis
The mere fact that Christianity and Islam are multi-cultural religions refutes his argument. — Gus Lamarch
Both are religions that do not differ between their converts. That's why we have christian japanese, and muslim american people. — Gus Lamarch
Religion unifies people more than it divides... — Gus Lamarch
God is dead. — praxis
What do you understand when Nietzsche says: — Gus Lamarch
My understanding of why you quote him this way is in effort to substantiate your belief that people require some contrived fiction in order to be lead around like cattle. — praxis
My reference to Nietz was only to signify The Enlightenment, because you asked how humanity has matured. — praxis
My understanding, which could be wrong, is that you are in agreement with Nietzsche, and we are not in agreement. — praxis
And Nietzsche disagrees with you too. — Gus Lamarch
What do you think about it? — Gus Lamarch
The triumph of Christianity was so extensive — Ciceronianus the White
Mithras, Helios and Luna are depicted in the imagery. — Ciceronianus the White
This is a subject that fascinates me too much. Christianity completely deconstructed the classic mentality of the people of the time - from ethics, values, morals, virtues, stereotypes, prejudices, taboos, fetishes, dress, language, etc ... - It was like a complete deconstruction of the structuring of the human mind of the time - of course, over the years and not in a single moment -. — Gus Lamarch
I agree there was a reconstruction if not deconstruction in several ways. I think it a great loss, myself. — Ciceronianus the White
You mentioned the lion headed figure found in Mithraeums. How may someone raised in a Christian society think of it as anything but demonic? How can we understand animal sacrifice, or the significance of the bull not only in the Mithras cult but the worship of the Great Mother, and earlier in the worship of Dionysus and in Minoan and Egyptian religions? The significance of sacrifice and salvation are there in Christianity as well, of course, but on its face is so different. Nonetheless, it would seem the same needs and desires are being addressed. — Ciceronianus the White
Early Christianity had its own sects or heresies which would strike us now as bizarre as well. The Gnostics most especially I think. Gnosticism may have been influenced by Hermes Trismegistus and pagan cults emphasizing secret knowledge as necessary for salvation. — Ciceronianus the White
Years later, studying the Christian faith, I ended up discovering that my past Christian belief was nothing more than the Arian interpretation of Arianism - a Christian heresy from the 3rd and 4th centuries, and which was widely adopted by the Germanic barbarians who invaded the Roman Empire - later, all of them would convert to Catholicism in the most diverse ways - -. — Gus Lamarch
Emperors were Arian as well. For example Contantius, the predecessor and cousin of Julian the Apostate (those were interesting times). — Ciceronianus the White
Have you ever read Gore Vidal's Julian? One of my favorite historical novels. — Ciceronianus the White
I've always thought the Arian view of Jesus is more acceptable, more reasonable (if that can be said of a religious belief), than the Nicene view, — Ciceronianus the White
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