"Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch (Hodder and Stoughton
1995) is "a bloddy good read" as we like to say here in Australia. It
is, in some ways the *kind* of revisionist theological tome the
modern world badly needs. For this reason, God speaks in a language
that any idiot can understand (unlike the Bible, where God's
utterances require interpretation)
"Bear with it" as we say. This is revisionist theology with popular
overtones. Don't look for hard scientific discourse in this book.
Some might be put off by the central conceit, which is to "talk to
oneself" (introspect) and "get the truth" via the notion that the
person we are talking to is in fact God. The little voice in your
head type God.
Well - when you talk to yourself for whatever reason, who the hell
ARE you talking to???
Science is where you pray to nature...
The reason I recommend this book is that the author has managed to
introspect himself into precisely the position I think Bruno is
describing with his modal logics.
Cheers,
Kim Jones
On 20/02/2006, at 8:44 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> Le 18-févr.-06, à 01:05, Kim Jones a écrit :
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>> Which is very interesting, isn't it? People do seem want the kind
>> of modelled structure for their existence that theology projects.
>> Even though G means we can never know the truth of it, theology
>> tells us it is nonetheless there.
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> Like G*.
>
>>
>> Has anyone on this list read Neale Donald Walsch's "Conversations
>> with God?" series of books? Bruno may well be interested to read
>> at least Volume 1 if he hasn't yet encountered it. The whole book
>> IS the interview with the self-referentially-correct Loebian
>> machine!
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> Gosh!
>
>
>
>> I realised this yesterday after re-reading sections of it and
>> comparing them to Bruno's thinking.
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> I will try to take a look.
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> Bruno
>
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Mon Feb 20 2006 - 06:34:25 PST