Against the Day after Inherent Vice again

[Paul Mackin]

On 2/20/2012 9:13 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> Mark Kohut wrote:
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>     Is the Inherent Vice, Original Sin, as was discussed during the read?
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>     Evil from behind the [screaming?] sky.....and then THEY arrived
>     [to invade our Garden of Eden]?? This is
>     what it would be like without Original Sin??
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> What the Cohen was saying reminded me of Velikovsky et al and even 
> Scientology - attempts to answer the immediate question but ignoring 
> the regress which that leads to (why were those guys bad?)  what is 
> badness? why should we be susceptible to it? is there a remedy?
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No EARTHLY remedy.

Supernatural explanations are doomed by the infinite-regress problem, 
but so are the scientific ones.

What caused the Big Bang?

Aristotle postulated a First Cause--but that's now considered mere word 
play.

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