User:Rursus/Ego

Rursus Siderespector (the boldly imperfect one)
Rursus Siderespector, Sternahwerfilaʀ (ᛊᛏᛖᚱᚿᚨᚺᚹᛖᚱᚠᛁᛚᚨᛉ), Tomas Sören Kindahl:
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Me, Rursus (rurſus) was mentioned several times in Tabulæ Rudolphinæ as a very important factor regarding star positioning, especially regarding TRNO 154 Coronae Borealis (Epsilon). This means that I was active already around 1600 AD.

Merits
In case some user loller-by would like to refer to my authority:
 * I have no authority whatsoever!

This non-authority (= tinkerability) is composed from: This non-authority gives me no extra weight in discussions, instead it gives my brain and mouth some better arguments, if the other users involved in that discussion accept this.
 * 60 hp (hit points) university math (very very simple, analysis and stuff),
 * 234 hp university computer science (same as always, whatever market nerds may think),
 * 57 hp behavioural science (Not for my own part! I was already behaving perfectly, it was only those idiots who...) psychology, sociology, philosophy and pedagogy.
 * 4.5 hp astronomy (which is much less than the informal hp:s of amateur astronomers),
 * 13 years of C/C++ programming,

Prehistory
According to policies, I'm entitled to making a short autobiography here:

I was born in the early 19th century in a dark wood in an obscure little country of snow trolls. Then came the evil Vikings invading and exterminated all nonhuman humanoids except a little remnant exactly in the dark wood where I and my family lived. The Vikings were Christianized just in the nick of the time and they allowed a few snow trolls and goblins survive in a zoo. Therefrom I escaped and wroke havoc in the neighborhood before I was imprisoned and served as a slave in 13.666 years amongst an evil cult of guys that claimed they should construct a Sky Net to the Viking politicians who had the instructions to terminate the humankind, but instead they intended to sell an empty container containing blue smoke. From there I succeeded to escape but that evil cult is still after me, whose only true purpose in fact was to finance their own ganja addiction.

Then I invented a high technological solar telescope (image right). I've invented many things such as nothing special, something, and this and that, most of the things designed to wreak havoc a little here and a little there.

Magical career
In my little wood there were a vast goblinian tradition that the evil Vikings tried to destroy and make forgotten. However, my father and mother were goblinian shamans, and they taught me the goblinian tradition, a long tradition that had emerged at the historical epoch of Midgard when we fought the evil elves (now extinct) and some mislead humans, under the giant failured dictator Sauron. This philosophical/shamanic tradition includes spell casting, such as various curses and rift-throwing spells as to be applied to the Nous and the cultural flow in order to regulate the flows in the society. For this reason and for spell casting I'm ill reputed in certain anti-Christian circles who feel a strong sense of competition against their own mind-controlling activities.

Am I nuts?
According to intuitionistic logic I'm neither non-nuts nor nuts. And that is the entire of it.

Luther
Let's for a moment become a little serious: I'm a lutheran, but this guy Martin Luther needed some mouth washing, and soap wouldn't do. It should have been something like machine washing powder at the very least, and that for this: he claimed the Roman Catholic Church was the beast 666, which it isn't (666 was an encryption on the insane emperor Nero), and he made hate speeches against Jews. He also diddled with double predestination, which is a heresy, and he tried to remove the Epistle of James, which is some kind of unnacceptable religious revisionism. If you buy one part of the Bible, you implicitly buy it all (doubts and non-comprehensions in general provisionally accepted). He is forgiven for his antagonism against peasants, but not the hate speeches against them. He was in a historical situation when the Roman Catholic Church by itself was about to lose all their religious authority by their own actions, and the peasants and warry kind of anabaptists were misusing parts of his sayings for their own purposes. Luther was a trigger for violent tension release in a society on the verge of exploding.

Luther is a reformer, and a heroic one, but the lutheran reformation wasn't entirely his, it is an "academic" product created by Luther, Melanchton, Jonas, Bugenhagen and others, where Luther made a heavy contribution by producing a German Bible translation based on greek, and by producing catechisms.

Others

 * Albertus Magnus "peaceful coexistence of science and religion"
 * Thomas Aquinas
 * Peter Abelard
 * Plotinus
 * Charles Darwin
 * Galileo Galilei


 * Creationism as a thinking disorder by reverend Richard Bradshaw, Mental Health Chaplain: "They have a religious disability".
 * Laudan's rejection of the demarcation problem, the demarcation thinking handicaps science and prohibits religion

External reading

 * talkorigins.org: moral defense for theistic evolution