Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:05:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801121605.LAA03358@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: jbdp@cix.compulink.co.uk Sender: Lojban list From: Julian Pardoe Subject: Re: Why be in the Philosophy of Religion X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: ae6a39509f524948568d38c49d80d64b Status: RO X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1355 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Jan 12 16:03:15 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - In-Reply-To: <199801120328.DAA07505@mail-relay.compulink.co.uk> I wish I had the Book. This is just crying out be to translated into Lojban! Maybe I'll try later. It would be a good exercise. Anyway I was forwarding this to a friend who is an amateur theologian and professional physicist (well, materials scientist and these days more administrator than scientist, universities being what they are). I was just going to say that I suspect souls don't have mass, but... Still, I feel that the initial assumption that souls have mass is wrong. Furthermore the fact that the author and Theresa Banyan have not yet had sexual relations does not mean that they never will and so we cannot be certain that there won't be a cold night in Hell until one of them dies (and, depending on your view of things, maybe not even then). In any case, there might be a cold night in Hell for other reasons. If TB's "postulate" is right it means that from the occurrence of the sexual relations in question we can deduce that it is a cold night in Hell, i.e. sex (author,TB) => cold (hell) This does not allow us to deduce that if they haven't it isn't. From the above can cannot deduce that ~sex (author,TB) => ~cold (hell) but only that ~cold (hell) => ~sex (author,TB) An elementary error of logic: I'm not sure the student deserved that A! -- jP --