GIORDANO BRUNO WAS NOT A MARTYR FOR SCIENCE BUT A FOLLOWER OF HERMETICISM

 

FROM https://historyforatheists.com/2017/03/the-great-myths-3-giordano-bruno-was-a-martyr-for-science/?fbclid=IwAR1VCUkoDmtFX2Jr1c_q2018P9uM1XYXB7Wc-hPY2-PJytrW6LWVswwIPuo

"Giordano Bruno was a martyr for science!" is a myth often repeated on social media. Giordano Bruno did no science and was not a scientist. Bruno was a follower of a movement called Hermetism, which was a cult that based its beliefs on documents which were thought to have originated in Egypt at the time of Moses. These writings were linked with the teaching of the Egyptian God Thoth, the God of learning and had arrived in Italy from Macedonia in the 1460s. To followers of this cult, Thoth was known as Hermes Trismegitus, or Hermes the thrice great. The book of Toth placed the sun at the centre of the universe. This is what Bruno followed. No science - only adoption of Hermeticism.

CHRISTIANITY AND THE 2021 AUSTRALIAN CENSUS

 

The Australian 2021 Census figures show a decline in Christian belief from 52% to 43.9% of our population. This goes along with the steady decline since 1901:

1901 96.1%
1911 95.9%
1921 96.9%
1933 86.4%
1947 88.0%
1954 89.4%
1961 88.3%
1966 88.2%
1971 86.2%
1976 78.6%
1981 76.4%
1986 73.0%
1991 74.0%
1996 70.9%
2001 68.0%
2006 63.9%
2011 61.1%
2016 52.0%
2021 43.9%

The category of "No religion" is up from 29.6% (2016) to 38.9%.

In just over a hundred years Christianity has lost 52.2% of the population in Australia. Obviously the Christian church is doing something wonderful to continue in this downward spiral.

DID JESUS WEAR CLOTHES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION?

 

FROM James McGrath

In the crucifixion accounts the Roman soldiers take Jesus’ clothes.
In the stories about the tomb those who visit it find the grave clothes.
In the Easter appearances, what if anything do you imagine Jesus wearing and why?

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My comment: If Jesus’ clothes are taken and there are grave clothes left behind then Jesus must be naked. If he is wearing clothes then where did the clothes come from?

T H HUXLEY - MEANING OF AGNOSTIC

 

Agnostic: "one who professes that the existence of a First Cause and the essential nature of things are not and cannot be known" [Klein]; coined by T.H. Huxley (1825-1895),

WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

 

What is philosophy?

1 - The love of wisdom (Greek: philo - love, sophia - wisdom)

2 - Footnotes to Plato (428 – 347 BCE)

A.N Whitehead (1861 – 1947): “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them”. 

3 - The ‘queen of the sciences’. It interrogates the underpinning intellectual framework which is taken for granted in specific subject areas.

Main Branches of Philosophy

Metaphysics
(the study of existence and the nature of reality)

Epistemology
(the study of knowledge, and how and what we know)

Ethics
(the study of how people should act, and what is good and valuable)

Aesthetics
(the study of basic philosophical questions about art and beauty)

Logic
(the study of good reasoning, by valid inference and demonstration)
 
Political Philosophy
(the study of how people should interact in a proper society)

Philosophy of Mind
(the study of the nature of mind, consciousness, etc)

Philosophy of Religion
(the study of the nature of religion, God, evil, prayer, etc)

Philosophy of History
(the study of the eventual significance, if any, of human history)

Philosophy of Language
(the study of the nature, origins, and usage of language)

Philosophy of Science
(the study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science)

Philosophy of Education
(the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education)

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NCAT ORDERS REGARDING TEMAN PTY LTD

 

Regarding a recent newspaper article about my wife and I, it should be noted that we won our application to NCAT.

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RV 20/33760

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(1) is to take all reasonable steps to ensure that all residents meet their obligations under their village contracts, the village rules and this Act, so that a resident does not unreasonably interfere with the peace, comfort and quiet enjoyment of his or her fellow residents, and

(2) is to use its best endeavours to ensure that each resident lives in an environment free from harassment and intimidation.

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"In Search of C S Lewis" edited by Stephen Schofield

 

From "In Search of C S Lewis" edited by Stephen Schofield (Bridge Publishing Inc, New Jersey: Undated)

1. Stephen Scholfield (Interviewer)

Lewis ... he drank a pint of ale with lunch, and after we settled in armchairs. p. 1

2. Kenneth Tynan (Interviewer)

... the interviewer and I went to see Lewis in Headington ... "Tell me Professor Lewis, what do you think of the use of four-letter words in literature?" "Lewis answered,'I find them objectionable because they are not erotic enough'. p. 5

He never brought his religious beliefs into is literary tutorials. p. 6

3. Alan Rock (Pupil)

... he was not warm, and to be continually up against his ineluctable logic was distinctly chilling. p. 11

I never felt any warmth in my encounters with Lewis. No real human contact. p. 12

Once he said, 'Rook, you think of me as a Medievalist and a scholar. You're making a mistake. I'm nothing more than a butcher - a rough and brutal man.' Those were his words. p.13

4. Norman Bradshaw (Pupil)

... always smoking, generally a pipe. p. 18

He suffered from a bladder weakness (caused by World War 1 service at the front.) p.19

He would not, in my time, ever act as tutor to women. He seemed almost afraid of them. It was a standing joke at Magdalen that whenever he saw a woman enter the College he would run as fast as he could and lock himself in his rooms. p. 21

He liked to win. He liked to demolish an opponent's argument. ... Lewis would take up the argument and knock the other chap as flat as a house of cards ... And Lewis would sit back and take another sip of port. pp. 22-23

I know of several dons with theological degrees who denigrated Lewis because he was not a professional theologian - that is, he had no degree in theology - and yet he was becoming a household name. p. 24

... Lewis ... enjoyed beer, and who smoked a perpetual succession of pipes and 'gaspers' (Will's Gold Flake, or 'yellow perils', to be exact). p.34

... so generous and outpouring with 'fags' [cigarettes] and pipes, with beer and wine flowing ... p. 35

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This is only from the first 35 pages! The same themes come back over and over again. C S Lewis would not be accepted by most evangelicals today if they read Stephen Schofield's interviews with those who knew him "In Search Of C S Lewis". http://www.amazon.com/Search-C-S-Lewis.../dp/088270544X He was a high Anglican who liked the "bells and smells". His favourite food was a pie and pint of beer. He smoked a pipe. He was sexist and barred Dorothy L Sayers from the Inklings merely because she was a woman. He told dirty jokes all his life. His "Liar, Lunatic, Lord' thesis does not work and does not include all alternatives.