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I didn't realise 16th century English folk spoke with a South African accentThere is no such thing as a nonsensical question, because there is always an answer. The merits of any question depends on the level of erudition. For example; If I were to ask a person in the 16th century "If you travel at the speed of light, will time slow down"? The answer you will get will probably be something like this "What thou asketh me doest of the lunar afflicted minde cometh in and manifestees eetself in the guise of reedicule"!
Ah, you're not as good as me - I've been pretending to be a physicist for the past 5200 postsI am very good at pretending.
come to think of it; American, Australian, and many colonies have retained the original 16th century English accent. Contemporary English accent has little resemblance to the 16th century English accent!I didn't realise 16th century English folk spoke with a South African accent
How could they have retained the original accent, if even in America there are widely different accents, let alone compared to Australia?come to think of it; American, Australian, and many colonies have retained the original 16th century English accent. Contemporary English accent has little resemblance to the 16th century English accent!
I've gone over Camping's calculations, and he makes very judicious use of the numbers. Many people have predicted the date of the Rapture using the Bible, and they all get different dates - dates which just so happen to occur shortly after they've made the prediction. The odds are not in Camping's favour.
I think this link to a forum has some very interesting information: When did American accent become different from British?? | Antimoon Forum
Well all philosophy boils down to physics, so I suppose this falls under my jurisdiction
I used to be of the belief that omniscience precluded genuine free will, but I've since changed my mind. Though I don't believe any omniscience exists, and I'm on the fence about free will, I don't see the two as mutually exclusive.
Omniscience means that your decisions are known. But they're still just that: your decisions. What you freely choose may be known by God (or whatever entity is omniscient), but he isn't forcing you to choose the decision you will make, the choice is still yours. If we have some 'soul' or 'spirit' that solves the problem of how we can be truly creative or spontaneous in our decision making*, that still wouldn't necessarily preclude an omniscient being from foreknowing what it is we will freely decide. The 'free' part means its our decision, not that it's unknowable.
That's my take, at least
*From a scientific point of view, a highly complex quantum mechanical interaction in the brain's synapses may result in a very sophisticated sorting algorithm, much like the sophisticated computer programmes that arise ultimately from rather basic logic gates, could give rise to a 'genuine free will' algorithm. Maybe, in contrast to epiphenomenalism, that's the reason why the concious mind evolved - to act as a decision making tool of such sophistication that conciousness was the inevitable outcome of such a collation of sensory data. Maybe
Sure, faux free will is a possibility. But so is true free will, I believe.
I'd say it is, yes - you are free to make a decision contrary to the known outcome. You won't, but you're free to. It's like I can predict in all confidence that you won't kill yourself right now. You're free to, and my prediction, however confident, doesn't detract from that freedom. And if being 99% sure doesn't change that, why does being 100% sure? It's still your choice, you're the one who decides what happens, so it's your choice. And in that, it's free.
I've had a few rows about it myself over at EC - till I mulled it over myself and changed my mind. You can be sure I never told my opponents that though
Interesting stuffI think this link to a forum has some very interesting information: When did American accent become different from British?? | Antimoon Forum
Also Greek spoken in Cyprus is closer in accent to the ancient Greek than the Greek spoken in Greece today.
And it's nice to know it's not just CF that goes into blazing rows over the littlest thing!Besides, even if the Rapture does occur, he believes that the unsaved (such as myself) will be annihilated - no fire and brimstone for me
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I've had a few rows about it myself over at EC - till I mulled it over myself and changed my mind. You can be sure I never told my opponents that though
