Do you believe in a higher power?

**bajerman** · 2011-06-26, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Destard

my body will decay, some people will be sad for few days, end

and yeah, i'll probably turn into a tree if the coffin break, but probably not

Then some guy will chop you down and make a bible out of ya. :P

**Kulthor** · 2011-06-26, 10:09 PM

I don't believe in religion but, I believe your energy goes on and takes over another body/anything that requires energy...
Kinda like reincarnation but Einstein always believed that your energy never dies even after you die it just goes on. (If I remember correctly) Even if not, This is what I believe. :s

**Lemmy** · 2011-06-26, 10:10 PM

i dont believe in the ideologies of religions, however i like to believe there is some higher power whether it is called God or not. For the most part, i see religion as a way to keep certain moralities in order, and in some cases improve mankind. But believing in an afterlife isn't all to bad, even if there is none, its still not a bad deal being nice to people in your life time in the hopes of improving humanity.

Deleted · 2011-06-26, 10:10 PM

I think when I die that that's the end, and that is scares me a litle.

And I say think because I'm no idiot who claims to know the real thruth. I have respect for people who believe in the afterlife, though I think it is made up to make people feel better.

Any person who claims to be 100% sure to know what happens when you die is just well naive...

**Meezo** · 2011-06-26, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Prof_Sarcastic

As my other posts in this thread probably show, I'm quite impressed by Islamic science. To say that the chances of someone from that society might surmise (not merely guess) these facts is nearly a million to one, is in my view an enormous exaggeration. I'd say you've shown good evidence that the author was an intuitively brilliant scientist, like the Greek who postulated the existance of atoms, and nothing more.

i only said few stuff, there are also facts in there about the universe is expanding, tell me, when did we discover that ?

**Medivhe** · 2011-06-26, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Prof_Sarcastic

They HAD a word for 'nothing', but they didnt have a number for it, for use in mathematics. That might sound strange but when the biggest use for your science is in counting pigs for trade I guess there wasnt much need for a mathematical zero for some time.

Hellenistic zero

Hellenistic astronomers extended alphabetic Greek numerals into a sexagesimal positional numbering system by limiting each position to a maximum value of 50 + 9 and including a special symbol for zero, which was also used alone like our modern zero, more than as a simple placeholder. However, the positions were usually limited to the fractional part of a number (called minutes, seconds, thirds, fourths, etc.) — they were not used for the integral part of a number. This system was probably adapted from Babylonian numerals byHipparchus c. 140 BC. It was then used by Ptolemy (c. 140), Theon (c. 380), and Theon's daughter Hypatia (died 415).
The Greek sexagesimal place holder or zero symbol changed over time. The symbol used on papyri during the second century was a very small circle with an overbar several diameters long, terminated or not at both ends in various ways. Later, the overbar shortened to only one diameter, similar to our modern o macron (ō) which was still being used in late medieval Arabic manuscripts whenever alphabetic numerals were used. But the overbar was omitted in Byzantine manuscripts, leaving a bare ο (omicron). This gradual change from an invented symbol to ο does not support the hypothesis that the latter was the initial of ουδέν meaning "nothing".^[4]^[5]
Some of Ptolemy's true zeros appeared in the first line of each of his eclipse tables, where they were a measure of the angular separation between the center of the Moon and either the center of the Sun (for solar eclipses) or the center of Earth's shadow (for lunar eclipses). All of these zeros took the form 0 | 0 0, where Ptolemy actually used three of the symbols described in the previous paragraph. The vertical bar (|) indicates that the integral part on the left was in a separate column labeled in the headings of his tables as digits (of five arc-minutes each), whereas the fractional part was in the next column labeled minute of immersion, meaning sixtieths (and thirty-six-hundredths) of a digit.^{[6]

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**Magisleeper** · 2011-06-26, 10:12 PM