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23 Sep 2003 04:49:45 AM |
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Reality in the melting pot |
Reality in the melting pot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1047755,00.html
According to 'multiverse' theorists, life as we know it could be
nothing but a Matrix-style simulation
Paul Davies
Tuesday September 23, 2003
The Guardian
Five hundred years ago it was widely believed that the Earth lay at
the centre of the universe and mankind was the pinnacle of creation.
Then along came Copernicus and showed that our planet was merely one
of several orbiting the sun. Since then the lesson of Earth's
mediocrity has been reinforced again and again: ours is a typical
planet around a typical star in a typical galaxy, of which there exist
untold billions.
The Copernican principle - that our location in space is unremarkable
- is the default assumption for most scientists. But recently this
principle has been challenged by a group of cosmologists who claim
that what we have all along been calling "the universe" is nothing of
the sort. Rather, it is a tiny fragment of a much vaster and more
elaborate system that, for want of a better word, has been dubbed "the
multiverse".
Paul Davies
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: Reality in the melting pot |
23 Sep 2003 06:02:04 AM |
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On 23 Sep 2003 02:49:45 -0700 in alt.atheism, maff (maff91@yahoo.com
(maff)) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
Reality in the melting pot
For 5 points:
Know who coined the phrase "the melting pot"?
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"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
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| User: "Take Clayton Only As Directed" |
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| Title: Re: Reality in the melting pot |
23 Sep 2003 07:17:40 PM |
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"Therion Ware" <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote in message
news:70a0nvcnea06huehibuj29r8tvdc4bn9kg@4ax.com...
On 23 Sep 2003 02:49:45 -0700 in alt.atheism, maff (maff91@yahoo.com
(maff)) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
Reality in the melting pot
For 5 points:
Know who coined the phrase "the melting pot"?
The Galloping Gourmet?
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"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
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| User: "Beowulf" |
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| Title: Re: Re: Reality in the melting pot |
25 Sep 2003 11:48:22 AM |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:02:04 +0100, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> ejaculated:
On 23 Sep 2003 02:49:45 -0700 in alt.atheism, maff (maff91@yahoo.com
(maff)) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
Reality in the melting pot
For 5 points:
Know who coined the phrase "the melting pot"?
Why am I getting that Hitler feeling?
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| User: "Brian Westley" |
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| Title: Re: Reality in the melting pot |
23 Sep 2003 01:32:50 PM |
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Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> writes:
On 23 Sep 2003 02:49:45 -0700 in alt.atheism, maff (maff91@yahoo.com
(maff)) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
Reality in the melting pot
For 5 points:
Know who coined the phrase "the melting pot"?
Hmm, Timothy Leary? But that was "my pot is melting", I think...
---
Merlyn LeRoy
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| User: "Fear gan dia" |
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23 Sep 2003 04:22:09 PM |
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Verily verily I say unto you, it is written by Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>
in <70a0nvcnea06huehibuj29r8tvdc4bn9kg@4ax.com>:
# On 23 Sep 2003 02:49:45 -0700 in alt.atheism, maff (maff91@yahoo.com
# (maff)) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
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# >Reality in the melting pot
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# For 5 points:
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# Know who coined the phrase "the melting pot"?
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibit2.htm
'The Jewish Dickens'
Israel Zangwill and the Wanderers of Kilburn
3 November 1999 - 14 March 2000
This exhibition was the first major retrospective of the
life and works of Israel Zangwill (1864-1926). Born in
London's East End, he was a towering literary figure and
an active campaigner for political causes such as Zionism,
pacifism, and women's suffrage. Zangwill was a prolific
novelist and playwright, whose works straddled both Jewish
and non-Jewish worlds. His best known work, Children of the
Ghetto, is a classic of modern Jewish literature and his
translations of Hebrew prayers are still widely in use.
He coined the phrase "The Melting Pot" in his play of that
title, which was attended by President Roosevelt.
Five pints, you said? Make mine Smithwick's.
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Fear gan dia ### http://goddamliberal.blogspot.com
Director, EAC Division for Leaving the Toilet Seat up.
-No God for Ireland! he cried. We have had too much
God in Ireland. Away with God!
-James Joyce, _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: Reality in the melting pot |
23 Sep 2003 06:13:00 PM |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:22:09 GMT in alt.atheism, Fear gan dia ("Fear
gan dia" <stbqrdnxnnlr@bnqstslsbdsh.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
Verily verily I say unto you, it is written by Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>
in <70a0nvcnea06huehibuj29r8tvdc4bn9kg@4ax.com>:
# On 23 Sep 2003 02:49:45 -0700 in alt.atheism, maff (maff91@yahoo.com
# (maff)) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
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# >Reality in the melting pot
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# For 5 points:
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# Know who coined the phrase "the melting pot"?
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibit2.htm
'The Jewish Dickens'
Israel Zangwill and the Wanderers of Kilburn
3 November 1999 - 14 March 2000
Well done that man.
This exhibition was the first major retrospective of the
life and works of Israel Zangwill (1864-1926). Born in
London's East End, he was a towering literary figure and
an active campaigner for political causes such as Zionism,
pacifism, and women's suffrage. Zangwill was a prolific
novelist and playwright, whose works straddled both Jewish
and non-Jewish worlds. His best known work, Children of the
Ghetto, is a classic of modern Jewish literature and his
translations of Hebrew prayers are still widely in use.
He coined the phrase "The Melting Pot" in his play of that
title, which was attended by President Roosevelt.
Five pints, you said? Make mine Smithwick's.
Points, alas, points. Mind you, reminds me of the author of a guide
book to the Penine Way walk, who recommended a pub at the end of it
with a "have a pint on me if you complete it". A year or so the
Landlord sent him a bill for several hundred pounds from walkers who'd
declined to pay, saying "bill the author".
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
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