I read this book as a teenager when science was my whole personality. Because of the presentation and my naivete, I'm embarrassed to say it took me years to realize that he mostly talked about pseudoscience.
Lol I got that book when I was younger. IIRC he says the Rambam’s advice to get 8 hours of sleep is a proof the Torah is min hashamayim. Really highbrow stuff
Unfortunately there is an entire genre of this sort of jewish thought. Youtube is filled with it these days, people will really go for anything. Well I guess that's one outcome of divorcing judaism completely from the physical world :(
My brother told me that a certain Litivishe gadol in Eretz Yisroel (forgot who) called the book, "an insult to the human intelligence." Cohen has since then published a book on archeology, which from what I am told was much more grounded. But I didn't see it myself.
I never proved anything, nor was I claiming to have. All I was doing was making a distinction between physical and non physical. At this point in the conversation, anything physical (like ghosts showing up in a picture) I deny
What the hell are you saying man. Ghosts are not physical. The notion of ghosts is completely inexplicable under the known laws of physics.
If ghosts could be shown to exist, it would falsify physicalism. Or it would require massive breakthroughs in physics to explain, far greater than all the breakthroughs in 20th century physics combined
I agree that this is not a good book. Never announce a coming revolution unless you are the one leading it.
I assume by "was frum" about RebelJew, you mean before he started the blog, because from a quick perusal, almost nothing there sounds frum.
I am going based by his "about". I haven't read the whole blog. I came across it via google.
Link to something objectionable and I'll happily edit the post.
I read this book as a teenager when science was my whole personality. Because of the presentation and my naivete, I'm embarrassed to say it took me years to realize that he mostly talked about pseudoscience.
Lol I got that book when I was younger. IIRC he says the Rambam’s advice to get 8 hours of sleep is a proof the Torah is min hashamayim. Really highbrow stuff
As long as teenagers don't mistake this for the real thing
There is no “real thing.” None of it is real.
Not sure I understand what you're saying
He's a kofer, don't mind him
Unfortunately there is an entire genre of this sort of jewish thought. Youtube is filled with it these days, people will really go for anything. Well I guess that's one outcome of divorcing judaism completely from the physical world :(
My brother told me that a certain Litivishe gadol in Eretz Yisroel (forgot who) called the book, "an insult to the human intelligence." Cohen has since then published a book on archeology, which from what I am told was much more grounded. But I didn't see it myself.
Lol, my comment: https://dovber.substack.com/p/defending-the-indefensible-part-2/comment/21215592 - that shiur, if I remember correctly, was about these ghosts in pictures and stuff...
Demons, magic, palm-reading, astrology: ✅
Ghosts: ❌
Lol. See my post https://rationalistjudaism2.substack.com/p/angels for starters
Ah. So “Plato and Forms, therefore Demons and Magic and Palm-reading and Astrology but NOT Ghosts. QED”. Gotcha, makes perfect sense
I never proved anything, nor was I claiming to have. All I was doing was making a distinction between physical and non physical. At this point in the conversation, anything physical (like ghosts showing up in a picture) I deny
What the hell are you saying man. Ghosts are not physical. The notion of ghosts is completely inexplicable under the known laws of physics.
If ghosts could be shown to exist, it would falsify physicalism. Or it would require massive breakthroughs in physics to explain, far greater than all the breakthroughs in 20th century physics combined
If they aren't physical there would be no evidence of them in pictures. Follow the thread man.
“Excuse me, we do have some limits!”
Honestly, I can't read most frum stuff for this reason. Good thing I like reading Meforshim