From: jillarontown on

(George Hammond) wrote:

> [Hammond]
> Dear Philosophy newsgroup
> readers..... can't I get some kind
> of an INTELLIGENT-SERIOUS
> comment from someone.....
> the nerds on the physics newsgroups
> are driving me crazy with nonsense
> about this.
> George Hammond, physicist
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                ELEMENTARY SCIENTIFIC
            PROOF OF GOD
<snip citations about mental speed and IQ> [Hammond] OK, ... let me give
you a simple heuristic picture that explains what GOD is, in TWO STEPS:
STEP ONE:
    Take "picture fusion frequency"... you know, the phenomena
that makes moving picture films possible.       It is a
proven scientific fact that a 7 year old can only discriminate 10
frames/sec as being individual images.. above that he sees a continuous
image (a 'movie'). However, a 15 year old can discriminate 15 frames/sec
before it turns into a moving picture. It has been proven that this is
due to the increasing intelligence (mental speed) of the growing
children's brains!       What this means is that if we
define what the adult sees as "reality".... then ergo: 1/3 of said
reality is INVISIBLE to the 7 year old! The 7 year old is surrounded by
an INVISIBLE WORLD which only the adults (or more fully grown people)
can see! STEP TWO:
      OK.... it is ALSO a proven fact that no one in the
human race ever achieves "full growth". This fact is proven by the
existence of the well known 'Secular Trend' in human growth. See this
simple "explains it all" picture:
  http://geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god/Hammond5s1_files/img0.gif
OK... said Secular Trend shows that the average human stops growing when
he is about, say, 15% shy of full growth.
      Then, by the reasoning of STEP ONE, this means that
"15% of true reality is INVISIBLE" to the average full grown adult. And
in fact it varies from person to person, some people are missing 20%,
some 10% .
      Isn't it obvious that this simple phenomena of "an
invisible reality based on adult growth differences" is the SCIENTIFIC
EXPLANATION OF THE
HISTORICALY KNOWN PHENOMENA OF GOD?
                              What
the heck's wrong with you?
                That's such a simple,
proven,
                scientific explanation
of "God"
                that a high school drop
out
                could understand it!!
==================================

[jillaront]
1] I have been thinking about the above text and how it might relate to
some philosophical ideas. It should indicate an interest in
philosophical circles because of its historical roots.

2] I started comparing the above to what Plato's analogy of the cave or
Hegel's phenomenology of Spirit gives as the ground work. They make a
similar case with different terminology. What is missing in the above
text is the WORDING of the 'dialectical'.

a] One philosophical question then is, can science even be dialectical,
or is there a purist claim in science that it must omit such discourse
in order to be science?

b] ...."it varies from person to person, some people are missing 20%,
some 10%"...

If we use Plato's or Hegel's thinking or even a modern day dialectics
there must be some type of dialecticism occurring between the 20% and
the 10% groups.

I would be interested in how a criteria is established in science where
a community has some scientists with 20% secular trend deficit, or some
with only10%?

What is the neutral ground for discoursing the opposition of ideas for
each group and to argue the truth about the identity of the invisible
part? What grants the common terms that allows the discourse over the
differences between the two groups?

3] The naming of all known and deficit parts for a wholistic identity is
termed 'total agency' by critical realism. The use of the term 'God' is
authoritative and therefore deontic to common logical scrutiny. "Total
agency" is a more neutral term. Older philosophical terms have been:
'virtue' [the virtual good], the 'shinning', the 'divine', the 'spirit'.
Again we should note these as historical but not neutral because of how
their meanings are practiced in cultures.

jillaront

From: jillarontown on

More comments using Critical Realism to addresses the complexity in Mr
Hammond's text:

1] When something is claimed 'invisible' it is detotalizing the ground
before us. Providing a process of identity for the whole, the parts, and
the detotalization is called dialectics.

2] Modern dialectics and critical realism [CR] replaces the term
'invisible' with the term 'absence' or 'negation'. This aligns the
function of logical ontic coherence by restructuring the critical
thinking process away from irrealistic and logically deontic terms.

a] Arguing the identity of something thought to be 'invisible' is
philosophical irrealism.

b] Arguing the identity of something irrealistically termed 'invisible'
as that which is 'absent' or 'negative' is a process for ontic logic and
the philosophical method of critical realism.

[A] Mr Hammond's text is complex because there is a realistic reference
to the deficit found in the 'secular trend'. The claim of the argument
is one of science, realism, and theism. What is interesting to note in
the text is a reversal of the phenomenological method [PM] to arrive at
the theistic conclusion. PM asserts that its methodology can claim
scientific knowledge of the phenomenological experience.

In short, the text starts out with mediated categories and ends with
attending immediate experiential terminology- God.

Historically, the order has been in reverse of this. There is an
experience that forms its grounding from the immediate personal to a
mediated communion and its social celebration which is all tied to a
guided authority of a doctrine.

Not only is this the reverse order of the phenomenological method- I
have discussed this before, in older threads in AP- it is also method
which is closed to any re-circuiting of the entire PM process, which
should always be open to repeat mediations and therefore changes.

[B] Defining the character of this 'deficit' seems to be what is
fuelling continuing arguments which are mostly do to the terminology
that is propagating more philosophical irrealism.

Philosophical critical realistic methodology can be represented to
propose the removal of this irrealism with the identity of this deficit
as negation or absence. It is a more logically ontic terminology and
clearing for processing ontic logic. That is how dialectics works. That
is how dialectics clears out irrealism.

jillaront

From: Brian Eable on
"George Hammond" <nowhere1(a)nospam.net> writes:

> "Etienne Rouette" <etienne.rouette(a)sympatico.ca> wrote in
> message news:mpL0e.37445$nK.1410363(a)news20.bellglobal.com...
> >
> > For the record: are _we_ the public? Just thought I'd ask.
> >
> > Etienne Rouette
>
>
> [Hammond]
> Anyway, I'd be glad to have you as a member
> of the COSA church.... so far I've only got 4 members,
> and haven't even set up a discussion mailing list yet (see my
> signature file below)... anyway... COSA could use a "French
> connection"....


I'm not surprised you are trying to get that Etienne Rouette broad to
join COSA. I heard a rumour that she has a PhD in Psychology and is
studying for her MS in Physics (Relativity). And she's a HAWT CHYK!
HUBBA HUBBA!!!1!


--
Anybody who would use the term "ignorant racist" IS AN IGNORANT RACIST..
which probably means you are an ignorant racist. -- George Hammond
http://beable.com
From: TMG on

George Hammond wrote:

<snip>

> [Hammond]
> there are cameras that can take a million frames per second
> (i.e. can photograph a bullet in flight)...

Millions? That wouldn't be another made up "fact" that's a couple of
orders of magnitude off - would it?

From: Aardvark J. Bandersnatch, MP, LP, BLT, ETC. on

"George Hammond" <nowhere1(a)nospam.net> wrote in message
news:rVN0e.3390$z.2411(a)newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>

>
> [Hammond]
> there are cameras that can take a million frames per second
> (i.e. can photograph a bullet in flight)... so what... what does
> that have to do with PEOPLE.... bear in mind "God" is a
> phenomena which only effects LIVING ORGANISMS...
> such as you and me.... not t.v. cameras.

Therefore, "God" cannot make it rain.