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Good bye

RIP or not.

And the scientific lights dim a little more. A true genius has left. Oh well, that’s life. Well, I guarantee you that the current generation won’t have a Hawking. They eat Tide Pods and do exactly what they’re told to do by mainstream media.........

This brings me down for sure. I loved reading his books and all about his works. For a man that should have died in his mid 20's to live to the age of 76 with ALS was astounding enough. To add that he was one of the top leading scientist in our time even more astounding.

To have held the post at Cambridge University of Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a position that has been held by only 17 men including the father of physics Isaac Newton. Well, it is just sad to lose such a man.




MACS, You just can't fix people unwilling to have an open mind no matter how hard you try. If I recall Hawkings hypotheses was showing positive for there not having a higher being correct? I can't remember as it has been a while since I have read up on his works.

Mr Hawking, may you Rest In Peace.

I have a problem understanding why a brilliant man who decides after serious, honest thought that God does not exist, will burn in hell.
I have an easier time understanding why a wicked man would but, well this has always bothered me: if God made us who we are, he knows what he made and is, the way I see it, largely responsible for what we are and do.
I know it will be argued that WE make choices but..do we really? Always? I dunno...

We lost a great man. I think part of his legacy should be his warning to us, the not nearly as brilliant people of the earth that he seemed to really love.
He warned us that we were screwing up the planet, that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of mankind, as would trying to find alien life, an inevitability he was really afraid of.

3 quotes by Hawking:

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

He's prolly just out looking for CROS...

who knows really
not for us to judge
with my beliefs I pray he came to faith in his fleeting moments

one day we will all find out the truth but either way it will likely be too late to do anything about it

I glossed over this earlier... but now that gummy quoted it... it makes no sense.
You start by posting a false binary choice (either there is no god and he's off to nothingness, or the god is specifically the type which believes nonbelievers will burn in eternal hell). The binary choice is obviously false, as the existence of a god can be the existence of ANY god. This isn't an "either macs or stephen hawking is right about the nature of the universe". You both could conceptually be wrong.

But then, you state that you hope he rests in peace. Which is weird, as you are presumably of the religion in which nonbelievers burn in hell (otherwise you wouldn't have offered that option up in the binary choice)... so hoping he rests in peace is disingenuous, as it would require you be wrong about your religion, something which is built solely on faith.

I really have never understood people.

Interesting site. I seem incapable of that leap of faith many others are capable of.
That said, I'm reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. There's a really interesting point one of characters makes: he says the greatest, most admirable thing about man is the idea he's concocted that 'even if there were no God it would be necessary to invent him'. That somehow, for many of us, God is necessary! Whether he exists or not!

Personally, I like that.

It was that 3rd glass of scotch...