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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Rambi who wrote (1116)	9/28/2000 11:59:39 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 28931

Hey, Rambi, great to see you here! I've often considered mental illness a highly relative term, frequently used with questionable agendas. When is someone mentally ill? That has the same problem as when do grains of wheat become a heap. Am I mentally ill because I can't swear there is a God? In some circles, yes. In most, no. My mother worked on the Psychiatric Emergency Team (PET) in LA County and was the first line BEFORE the cops in a psychiatric emergency (nuts with guns, raving loonies, etc.). It is pretty clear when someone is over the top. But it is a slippery slope. This ties back to the recent discussion of Godel's theorem (and proving the truth of propositions). I believe logic breaks down (Solon's sorities examples too) because the fundamental fabric of the universe has uncertainty in it. I can never really say something is absolutely TRUE because all truths are relative. It is really a matter of HOW true. In engineering they talk about a 5 nines system. That means its probability of working is 0.99999. Most people are uncomfortable with the fact that they could be the unlucky one when it breaks. I was once told by a VP of Marketing "I don't want any failures in the field." My response was "None???!!! Ever???!!!" Cost is roughly 10x for every "nine" you add. With infinite "nines" it would be infinitely expensive at transcendental order (mathspeak for REALLY, really infinite). I told her "I need a number and then I can estimate how expensive it will be to meet that." This was a medical device company. Can you imagine the fun that a trial lawyer would have with that one? The rhetoric would be "Ladies and gentlemen, here is a company that can put the value on a human life." Duh!! We do that every time we get behind the wheel.

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