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Re: The Argument from Misunderstanding How Natural Selection Works

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:37:01 -0000

I've been banging on this point for years now. It's amazing how subtle the assumption is that having an expectation of 'noumenal access' is a reasonable expectation, or that one can skip from 'God might exist' to 'the Christian God exists as outlined in the Bible'.

Great work on this review series.

Re: Aeon Ideas

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:59:43 -0000

Addendum: If society was only one thing, this would make change impossible. Fortunately, society is plural, and there is never an equilibrium so stable that it cannot be disrupted by some of its components. Nevertheless, staking out an uncompromising position against one's society gives no guarantees. Many of history's big names had counterparts generations earlier who were exiled, imprisoned, executed, ignored, and generally excised from the society they sought to change. It took the social equilibrium moving towards criticality that allowed key individuals to have the outsized impacts they did.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:46:33 -0000

Per the above, you'll need to obtain a build environment first. You don't have configure (or likely make, or anything else).

Last time I did this I actually had to use AIX and transcompile. The instructions are almost the same, unfortunately my documentation was not preserved.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:53:52 -0000

Looks like you may not have or have the wrong headers (http://www.sudo.ws/pipermai... or gcc may not be installed correctly or wrong version (https://www.ibm.com/develop....

Not sure beyond those hints.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:13:28 -0000

You will need GNU make. Here are the sources I worked with primarily.

http://www.perzl.org/aix/in...
http://174.79.32.155/wiki/index.php/PASE/OpenSourceBinaries
http://174.79.32.155/wiki/index.php/PASE/PASE

Re: I Am Working on a Book

hewhocutsdown — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 22:34:12 -0000

That's a big step! It's good to see you thinking the process through right from the beginning. I don't think I'll be exactly your intended audience, but if you need a sounding board, you know where to find me.

Re: Tools to help administer your Facebook Groups

hewhocutsdown — Wed, 21 May 2014 10:03:22 -0000

Facebook Groups: Boldly seven years behind in features.

Re: “Why Are You Still a Christian?”

hewhocutsdown — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:03:21 -0000

Not true; Tony's no slouch.

Re: “Why Are You Still a Christian?”

hewhocutsdown — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:48:35 -0000

Oh come now Tony, you know better; you're making the fallacy fallacy!

http://existentialcomics.co...

Re: If the Bible Is Relative, Does Any Objective Morality Exist? [Questions That Haunt]

hewhocutsdown — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:41:46 -0000

Seconding the "there are no objective morals" argument.

This does *not* mean that the age old "anything goes" argument holds. There are good and many reasons why all, or nearly all, human societies throughout history have decided that allowing people to kill whoever they want is not a desirable thing. They just aren't *universal* reasons.

I've given the analogy of Boltzmann's discovery that entropy was probabilistic, where previously the inexorable rise of entropy was thought to be absolute. This shift in understanding didn't make everyday objects suddenly de-age and spontaneously order themselves, but it did offer explanations for strange edge cases that had previously caused difficulty in entropy modeling.

In the same way, a society operating under relative ethics may look an awful lot like a society that believes it is operating under absolute, objective ethics. It's in the little things that the difference really stands out.

Re: Who the Heck is Slavoj Žižek?

hewhocutsdown — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:37:37 -0000

Yes, that is an excellent summary.

Re: The Christian Guide to Atheists: Never Really a Christian

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:21:01 -0000

Whoops, thought this was the "uninformed" post (other tab).

Apparently I can't read when it's browser tabs.

Re: The Christian Guide to Atheists: Never Really a Christian

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:18:38 -0000

*This*

It's hard to even respond to the absurdity sometimes. If I explain Christianity to the Christians, they think I'm an ass, but when I keep quiet, they think I'm ignorant. Never mind the fact that I've studied to become a pastor, my father is a pastor, and I know their tradition and theology better than they do.

And the recommendations of Lewis or Strobel are absolutely laughable. Yes, I've read Lewis and Strobel and Craig and Plantiga and Rowan Williams and Paul Tillich and Gustavo Gutierrez and John Howard Yoder. Don't even...just don't.

Re: On Warfare and Weakness: Part 4, To Go To War We Need a Weaker God

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:10:05 -0000

This has been an excellent series so far (right up there with Adam Miller's Speculative Grace).

I think there are non-theist parallels, here; many social theorists have had hegemonic theories (about society, about capital, etc) that are much like the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God and have therefore required their own theodicies and what have you.

The question of how to motivate action when meaning collapses does not get solved when one adopts a model of "warfare against the powers", but not insignificant sub-problems are.

I'll be reading Caputo shortly, it's been beckoning from my bookshelf.

Re: On Warfare and Weakness: Part 2, A Theology of Revolt

hewhocutsdown — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:47:21 -0000

I'm not saying Boyd is Zoroastrian...just that if the partial duality/conflict model is appealing, there's always the possibility for a going in all the way. :P

Re: On Warfare and Weakness: Part 2, A Theology of Revolt

hewhocutsdown — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:10 -0000

So....Zoroastrianism, anyone?

Re: Model Thinking

hewhocutsdown — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:16:32 -0000

The lectures covered the material on the exams; however I felt that the lectures were just an introduction-the readings helped expand on the concepts.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:38:01 -0000

Also, if the issue is m_setjmp.h (make will throw '_UKJBLEN' undeclared here (not in a function) error) you'll need to get AIX to TL5 (tech level 5). To my knowledge this is not possible in PASE on V5R4.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:08:14 -0000

Sometimes the header files are missing in the supplied .rpms (or the relevant rpms don't exist). You can usually find copies of them in /QIBM/include/, use Rfile to copy them (http://publib.boulder.ibm.c... that'll handle the conversion from EBCIDIC and anything else. Here's an example:

Rfile -r /QIBM/include/sys/types.h > /QOpenSys/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/4.2.0/include/sys/stat.h

Looks like standards.h is your culprit. I've also see stat.h, m_setjmp.h and a couple others cause similar problems. Just rinse and repeat for each.

Re: Daniel Estrada on Philosophy of Technology: Part 2

hewhocutsdown — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:37:47 -0000

Todd; just so you know, I notified Daniel about both your questions. I can't promise he'll respond, though.

Re: 9:30 Coffee Break: Disowned Songs | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio

hewhocutsdown — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:34:17 -0000

Blur didn't disown it, but Song 2 was never meant to be as popular as it was; I believe it was satirical.

Re: Achieving Disagreement

hewhocutsdown — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:57:24 -0000

Close, but note the conditions. In the cases I outlined above,
disagreement arose from a) different axioms, or b) different data sets.
But it took work to understand that these were where the disagreement
originated, and not elsewhere.

Great post, nonetheless.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:00:50 -0000

What exactly are you trying to do? There may be an easier way than CUPS.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:58:46 -0000

Sorry, you're on your own with CUPS. You have my condolences.

Re: How to compile Ghostscript for PASE - hwcd

hewhocutsdown — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:02:36 -0000

Ah, I'm not sure for AIX. PASE's version of AIX 5.3 is different from actual AIX 5.3 in subtle and unhelpful ways.

Good luck, otherwise there's http://stackoverflow.com/qu...