Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
Sounds to me as if you need a holiday. What about Australia?  https://youtu.be/LaWrkBo0t1o?si=mBgNqpdH4QmuJYCm-J. Original message From: Frank Wimberly Date: 2/8/25 12:07 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] does not

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-08 Thread Prof David West
I agree. Would be curious as to your reasons for saying so. I have reasons that I will exchange for yours—if the subject merits further conversation. davew On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, at 10:11 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > The Church of Contradiction is abyssmal. > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 9:23 AM glen

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-07 Thread Stephen Guerin
The Church of Contradiction is abyssmal. On Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 9:23 AM glen wrote: > Peter Rollins and the Church of the Contradiction > https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/peter-rollins-and-the-church-of-the > > error: unexpected identifier; expected command > error: unknown tactic > error:

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi Frank, I am working very hard on the unpublishable revisions to my old weather, so time seems very precious to me these days. Nobody seemed to want to do any intellectual work the last time I was on. However, I do want to stay up-to-date with you and your family, so maybe maybe we can do that ar

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sure, Nick. I miss our communication. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 8:26 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Hi Frank, I am working very hard on the unpublishable revisions to my old > weather, so time seems very preciou

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
Nick, you don't even come to the meetings that are available. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 3:14 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > H > > do I have faith. of course. “I have to believe at least three impossible > thin

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hdo I have faith. of course. “I have to believe at least three impossible things before breakfast every morning“ so I have faith.Do I have religion? Well that’s more for you to say. Are the impossible things I believe organized into any pattern from which I can deduce other impossible things? Y

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-06 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
This conversation makes me think about how religion has shaped my own family. I was raised Christian but became an atheist early in life. When my children grew up, religion was not a part of our home. My wife also moved away from Christianity, but she still believes in a higher power — she describe

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-06 Thread glen
Yes, you're the only priest I trust these days. >8^D I think I got most of the message you lay out, maybe excepting your side note about Jung vs Freud+Laćan. What I didn't grok was all the code words like "in the real of" and "real in itself". I got excited by the words "Here the only “cure” fo

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-06 Thread Prof David West
Well, I (if I am the Dave you referred to) am an ordained priest, but only in the Aaronic Priesthood of the Mormon Church. The Church of the Contradiction is, IMHO, neither a *"religions disguised as jokes and jokes disguised as religions." *Rollins appears to be dead serious. To deconstruct th

[FRIAM] does not compute

2025-02-06 Thread glen
Peter Rollins and the Church of the Contradiction https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/peter-rollins-and-the-church-of-the error: unexpected identifier; expected command error: unknown tactic error: failed to synthesize I used to be (kinda still am) a fan of religions disguised as jokes and j