Dan, First, thanks for the apology which I gratefully accept.
However you have your facts completely wrong. It was NOT ME that posted a link to my personal blog, not a single one. It was Terren that did that as I recall, but it most certainly was NOT ME. I did post a SINGLE link to my company site later in response to questions why I was late in responding to some posts what I was busy doing...(Liz and others criticized my lack of immediate response on several occasions but I at least do have a real life apart from this group!) So your claim that "Edgar REPEATEDLY posted links to both his business and personal website" is simply FALSE. I posted only one link period. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:20:29 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I'm starting a new topic here so as not to derail any conversations on > other threads -- the original thread I am commenting on seems to have some > interesting stuff about computer simulations etc. and I don't want to > bother others about it. > > Edgar has repeatedly posted links to both his business and personal > website, and his "life companion" request is there right on the front page, > so I'm not sure how that constitutes snooping. > > For Edgar, if it is true that you did lose your wife to cancer recently, I > am very sorry for your loss. My father died of cancer when I was young, and > I lost a close friend last Christmas to cancer as well, so I know how that > feels. > > Just digging down to nuts and bolts for a second, though, for those > members on the list that subscribe to some version of "Everything Theory," > (Bruno's UD, various forms of "computer simulation universe," Craig's > multisense realism), I'd like to ask a serious and honest question in good > faith: what is the place of grief and mourning given belief in one of these > theories? Is it even appropriate to grieve in a universe where "Everything > exists" and the self is simply a computation on a deeper eternal substrate > and where time is an illusion? Indeed, isn't the whole humanistic, > existentialist "point" of these theories to offer us a bit of succor in the > face of inevitable death? > > That is why I am interested in this stuff -- not simply for the > intellectual fun and games of it all, but because I am truly terrified of > oblivion and of losing everything I love to that oblivion, and yet > everything in my observed world tells me that when we die, we are basically > "broken machines" and our world completely and permanently disappears for > us. That is why I desperately want to be convinced of any of the Everything > theories that are discussed here, although I admit that the degree to which > any of them offer any comfort at all is relative to how one is able to > interpret the consequences of such theories to find a place for your > personality in "the Everything." > > I didn't think pasting quite publicly available text from Edgar's website > constitutes a "personal attack." Edgar seems quite happy to keep that > information up on the web for anyone to see, so I hardly think it > constitutes snooping to cite it in a different forum. And my original > observation that I could understand why he was alone was motivated by his > continued truculence and seeming inability to incorporate and respond to > the many pieces of feedback he had been given about his "theory"... I > wouldn't want to be around somebody in real life who demonstrated such > regular and fatuous disregard for what I was saying. > > So, just to sum up, I apologize, Edgar, for any pain that my copying and > pasting of the text on your website caused you, and I apologize for > suggesting that the reason you are alone is because you are probably a > difficult person to live with in real life. I don't know anything about you > in real life (aside from what you've put on your website, assuming it is > all true), and I realize that this forum is not the place to engage in > personal attacks. > > I'll be more thoughtful in the future. > > Best regards, > > Dan Menon > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
