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Originally posted by Chamberf=6
reply to post by sled735
Hey guys, I really appreciate your interest, but could we get off "science" and get back to discussing The Law of One, and the Orion?
no more science.
I am Ra. I am a comprehensive repository of all knowledge past, present, and future. I have come to your plane to tell you; "NO SCIENCE". Listen to me and believe everything I say.
Ra signing out.edit on 9/3/2013 by Chamberf=6 because: I will be watching you...Ra sees everything.................................................................................Boo.
Originally posted by sled735
Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
Can we please readdress the fact that Venus is too much of an armpit (hot, poisonous, too much atmospheric pressure) to give rise to intelligent life?
No.
We have already established that it would be a different type of life form than a carbon based human, if any life existed there.
Let's not beat a dead horse.
Originally posted by ArdenWolf
reply to post by Xtrozero
Well we can't exist without faith. Everyone depends on it. Every action we take is based to some degree on faith. A "fact" is in a lot of ways just a really good bet. Really if you think about it, our decisions are quite often made on intuitive bets. Life's a gamble, and what science really is, is our attempting to learn the rules to better our odds at winning the game more often and more consistently.
Originally posted by Agree2Disagree
Originally posted by Xtrozero
In this case I think it would be nice to have just one empirical fact before we throw the word fact around, but we can't even say we have one.
Precisely my point.
Those that say Venus is inhabitable and no life can come from there, are indeed mistaken. It's completely possible for life to come from virtually anywhere. We have no "facts" for the basis of life, other than carbon-based life. Now, if we were to think about the message we're trying to convey...and perhaps phrase it as "It is highly unlikely that any intelligent carbon-based life forms could have emerged from Venus." then that would be much more acceptable, yet it still leaves the door wide open for theoretical forms of biochemistry.
But again, we come full circle to having no facts about any alternative biochemistry either. So we're forced to take possibility and probability into account rather than pure facts. Anything is possible, I am forced to agree...but not everything is probable, this much I know.
A2D
Originally posted by tanka418
Originally posted by Xtrozero
In this case I think it would be nice to have just one empirical fact before we throw the word fact around, but we can't even say we have one.
Sure you can (for Venus)
Surface temp. min mean max
Kelvin 737 K[2]
Celsius 464 °C
Many more empirical "facts" available at Wikipedia.com
This whole question was brought about by Ra, the source of the Law of One claiming to be from Venus. We have already established that unless Ra is an extremophile then he isn't from Venus. Which should have brought up the question of; "Just how in the hell can Ra relate to the "Human condition" IF he is not Human himself?"
Originally posted by ArdenWolf
Problem is, without omniscience, no one really ever has their entire hand for a bet. Or at least it's really rare.
Translation of Issac Newton c. 1680.
1) Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
2) That wch is below is like that wch is above & that wch is above is like yt wch is below to do ye miracles of one only thing.
3) And as all things have been & arose from one by ye mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
4) The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
5) the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nourse.
6) The father of all perfection in ye whole world is here.
7) Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
7a) Seperate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtile from the gross sweetly wth great indoustry.
8) It ascends from ye earth to ye heaven & again it desends to ye earth and receives ye force of things superior & inferior.
9) By this means you shall have ye glory of ye whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
10) Its force is above all force. ffor it vanquishes every subtile thing & penetrates every solid thing.
11a) So was ye world created.
12) From this are & do come admirable adaptaions whereof ye means (Or process) is here in this.
13) Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world.
14) That wch I have said of ye operation of ye Sun is accomplished & ended.
[Dobbs 1988: 183-4.]
7a) Seperate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtile from the gross sweetly wth great indoustry.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
The universe does not have infinite possibilities, so you are wrong to say anything is possible since there are quite a few limits in our universe
I appreciate anyone who comes forward with anything of value