BTZ42 Scene 17 chance

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 07:08:19 CDT 2016


One perspective on chance here might be that when the world was explained by Christian belief 
There was nothing really unexplained, so no chance,then that way of explaining ended, bringing in a notion of randomness, chance, then rationalized by the science of statistics. 

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> On Jul 16, 2016, at 6:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In this paradoxical phase, each firebloom, with blast, then sound is a mockery of the reversible process....
> " with each one the Lord further legitimizes his State"....pretty direct linking of Christian belief w war, with the meaning of the State....
> Then " we who cannot find find him, even to see" ......think of death no more often....call it " chance" ---cue Monte for CHANCE AND NECESSITY riff allusion--
> " Or we have been persuaded"---[cultural conditioning].... But
> " There do exist levels where chance is hardly recognized at all"....see Roger Mexico's profession where it can ALL be statistically plotted. 
> ALL. 
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