Gravity - is it really there?

[chilehed]

Drop the egg under water, and it won't fall.

Indeed. Boyancy proves that gravitational attraction exists.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Can't even maintain consistency

God is "a" factor


Right view is just the afterlife

 

[Freodin]

Indeed. Boyancy proves that gravitational attraction exists.

In a roundabout way, yes, it does.

 

[Hans Blaster]

God is "a" factor


Right view is just the afterlife

How are you harmed by my non-belief?

 

[JohnEmmett]

How are you harmed by my non-belief?

If you saw someone walking toward hell……

You would say turn around.

 

[Freodin]

Right view is just the afterlife

As I have already said in the post that you evaded so expertly, things happen.
Even you assume that an "afterlife" is awaiting the atheists... just not the same afterlife that you expect for yourself.

But that still leaves open the question of this life. You call this a "haunted world". It's a world where atheists are around and do their atheism.
If we didn't all start here, this has to be one of these "lower realms" where atheists land because they didn't plan right.

Which still leaves the question unanswered: what are you doing here?

 

[JohnEmmett]

what are you doing here?

I kept the five precepts which are necessary for human birth.


Five precepts are five standards of behavior.


Five ways of good conduct.

 

[Hans Blaster]

If you saw someone walking toward hell……

You would say turn around.

Are you sure you're a buhdist? You sure talk like a christian. (And I'm not walking right now as I am seated.)

 

[JohnEmmett]

Are you sure you're a Buddhist? You sure talk like a Christian.

I accept Christianity mostly.

 

[chilehed]

In a roundabout way, yes, it does.

Roundabout? I might agree with "very nearly directly", but no matter.

This chatter about gravity having something to do with how close we are to God strikes me as being a bit daft, but to each his own.

 

[JohnEmmett]

This chatter about gravity having something to do with how close we are to God strikes me as being a bit daft, but to each his own.

The original post is tongue in cheek.

 

[Freodin]

I kept the five precepts which are necessary for human birth.


Five precepts are five standards of behavior.


Five ways of good conduct.

And we are here also. That would mean we did as well. So where is the difference?

 

[JohnEmmett]

And we are here also. That would mean we did as well. So where is the difference?

Yes.

The difference is our view.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I met a ghost once.


I think this profoundly affected my view.

 

[Freodin]

Roundabout? I might agree with "very nearly directly", but no matter.

This chatter about gravity having something to do with how close we are to God strikes me as being a bit daft, but to each his own.

Buoyancy and the Archimedian Principle are calculated from a comparison of the weight of an object and the weight of the surrounding fluid. It includes no direct mention of the cause of "weight".

Of course the argument can be made that "weight" in itself is proof of gravity... but that is, as far as I understood it, the very point that gravity-deniers are questioning.

 

[Freodin]

I met a ghost once.


I think this profoundly affected my view.

So, how do you plan to meet a ghost?

 

[JohnEmmett]

So, how do you plan to meet a ghost?

I suppose the ghost was lonely.

So she approached us…

 

[chilehed]

Buoyancy and the Archimedian Principle are calculated from a comparison of the weight of an object and the weight of the surrounding fluid. It includes no direct mention of the cause of "weight".

I'm aware of that, yes.

Of course the argument can be made that "weight" in itself is proof of gravity.

Because weight is the result of gravititional attraction, and with no gravity there is no weight. My point exactly, which is why "very nearly directly" is a good descriptor.

Gravity deniers... I had no idea that there could be people even less reasonable than flat-earthers.

 

[Freodin]

I suppose the ghost was lonely.

So she approached us…

That means that your view that the afterlife is real is based on something that you didn't "plan" for.

So why do you expect atheists should do different from what you did?

 

[JohnEmmett]

That means that your view that the afterlife is real is based on something that you didn't "plan" for.

So why do you expect atheists should do different from what you did?

I do not know.