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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (12752)	3/30/1998 11:02:00 PM
From: Gregory D. John	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Graystone, Thank you for clarifying your post. I was unsure whether you really were meaning that the posts should be on the order of: "Should I sell PERI or wait until the next quarterly report?" No, I haven't been to Venezuela. No hablo espanol, senor. ;-) If I understand you correctly, you are saying that "God" in the English language is simply "an object of worship". I think, in that case, it is not capitalized; i.e., god. The God that a person believes, may or may not be capitalized depending on whether the language and/or culture marginalizes that particular god. I get "God Says" because the question-posts of "Ask God" are responded to by answer-posts that, to some degree or another, profess, correctly or incorrectly, to be what God says. This thread has transcended it's original function. "Look out, sir! His ass is going to blow!" (A friendly challenge to you, Graystone: who have I just quoted?) But I digress... Sorry, my fault... I didn't pick up on the sarcasm when you questioned Mark's belief-status. And... If I may be so bold, let me answer your questions directed to the All Mighty: I certainly don't believe science has disproved God (or any god); however, I don't believe science has provided a proof, either. What science? That's a loaded question. ;-) I am not an atheist because I do not believe that there is no God; I do not know whether there is a God. I am not an agnostic because I do not believe that one cannot know; I do not know whether one can know. I don't know what a blue event horizon is; however, I'll proffer a guess: The boundary around a black hole within which light in the blue colour frequency cannot escape. I don't know whether different frequencies of light are affected differently by gravity. I thought they all travelled along the same geodesics. Which would make my definition of blue event horizon most likely incorrect. Interesting that you should pick Avogardo's Number... since it's actually an integer (as opposed to a number like pi, which is transcendental). A more interesting question is whether there really is an Avogardo's Number or whether it is more appropriately considered a probability distribution function over the integers. (I hope I said that correctly...) When does God become obsolete? History would have us believe that God becomes obsolete when we replace Him with another god. Greg