Here is a link that explains everything about why you are wrong. It is very similar in its nature to what you call ADDRESSING a point.Already addressed. I'd suggest an education on the matter, and perhaps a new hobby.
http://www.google.com
Stuart
Here is a link that explains everything about why you are wrong. It is very similar in its nature to what you call ADDRESSING a point.Already addressed. I'd suggest an education on the matter, and perhaps a new hobby.
Which definition did the Sandler / Kellogg crackpots or you have in mind? No. 1 in regards to the natural claim on the intellectual origin of the science stolen by these nutcases? No. 3, which would have involved NAMING the scientists they were thanking?Stuart, I don't think you know what "Plagiarism" Or "Acknowledgement" means. Here's the latter:
Main Entry:ac*knowl*edge
Pronunciation:ik-*n*-lij, ak-
Function:verb
Inflected Form:-edged ; -edg*ing
1 : to recognize the rights or authority of
2 : to admit as true
3 : to express thanks for; also : to report receipt of
4 : to recognize as valid
–ac*knowl*edg*ment or ac*knowl*edge*ment noun
You may be simply using your assumptive definition.
Religious platitude. What is a god? How does it "know" things?God knows all things, Stu.
Another good question to do with the other two. Why do you refer to this thing as "he"?How can he plagiarize anything from humans?
You really are tedious, aren't you. Did you not pay attention when I claimed I had read about 60% of it??And why don't you give some examples of the plagiarism you say is in the book. You haven't read the book so you're getting your talking points from someplace else.
Did your nose grow longer when you wrote that?There is no plagiarism in The Urantia Book.
I promise you I am very interested in the truth. It is you who would like to deny it.Prove me wrong or shut up.
Also, calling The Urantia Book, "Book of Plagiarism," is disrespectful and simply shows your hand, it gives you away as someone not interested in the truth of the matter, but someone who is already hostile, just like the Pharisees were hostile to Jesus. You're like them, Stu.
| W. F. G. Swann writes on page 64 of The Architecture of the Universe (italics indicate edits, bolding indicates deletions): Starting from any one of them [i.e., chemical elements], and noting some property such as the melting point, for example, the property would change as we went along the row, but as we continued it would gradually come back to the condition very similar to that which we started ... The eighth element was in many respects like the first, the ninth like the second, the tenth like the third, and so on. Such a slate of affairs point Contrast with The Urantia Book's version: Starting from any one element, after noting some one property, such a quality will exchange for six consecutive elements, but on reaching the eighth, it tends to reappear, that is, the eighth chemically active element resembles the first, the ninth the second, and so on. Such a fact of the physical world unmistakably points to the sevenfold constitution of ancestral energy and is indicative of the fundamental reality of the sevenfold diversity of the creations of time and space. |
| Spectral lines are displaced from the normal towards the violet by an approaching star; likewise these lines are displaced towards the red by a receding star. Many influences interpose to make it appear that the recessional velocity of the external universes increases at the rate of more than one hundred miles a second for every million light-years increase in distance. |
| Hubble's law is the name for the astronomical observation in physical cosmology first made by American astronomer Edwin Hubble, that: (1) all objects observed in deep space (interstellar space) are found to have a doppler shift observable relative velocity to Earth, and to each other; and (2) that this doppler-shift measured velocity, of various galaxies receding from the Earth is proportional to their distance from the Earth and all other interstellar bodies. In effect, the space-time volume of the observable universe is expanding (from a smaller past to a larger future); and Hubble's law is the direct physical observation of this process, as it unfolds.[1] The law was first derived from the General Relativity equations by Georges Lemaître in 1927.[2] Edwin Hubble derived it empirically in 1929[3] after nearly a decade of observations. The recession velocity of the objects was inferred from their redshifts, many measured earlier by Vesto Slipher (1917) and related to velocity by him.[4] It is considered the first observational basis for the expanding space paradigm and today serves as one of the pieces of evidence most often cited in support of the Big Bang model. The law is often expressed by the equation v = H0D, with H0 the constant of proportionality (the Hubble constant) between the "proper distance" D to a galaxy (which can change over time, unlike the comoving distance) and its velocity v (i.e. the derivative of proper distance with respect to cosmological time coordinate; … A recent 2011 estimate of the Hubble constant, which used a new infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure the distance and redshift for a collection of astronomical objects, gives a value of H0 = 73.8 ± 2.4 (km/s)/Mpc. … |
| Matter — energy — for they are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality…The increase of mass in matter is equal to the increase of energy divided by the square of the velocity of light. |
| The relative integrity of matter is assured by the fact that energy can be absorbed or released only in those exact amounts which Urantia scientists have designated quanta. |
| The formation of all matter is on the order of the solar system. There is at the center of every minute universe of energy a relatively stable, comparatively stationary, nuclear portion of material existence. This central unit is endowed with a threefold possibility of manifestation. Surrounding this energy center there whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits, the energy units which are faintly comparable to the planets encircling the sun of some starry group like your own solar system. |
Which definition did the Sandler / Kellogg crackpots or you have in mind? No. 1 in regards to the natural claim on the intellectual origin of the science stolen by these nutcases? No. 3, which would have involved NAMING the scientists they were thanking?
No, they acknowledge their Imaginary Friends, then pretend they have acknowledged real people by referring to humans in general in an absurdly patronising way. Shame on your for apologising for them.
Religious platitude. What is a god? How does it "know" things?
Another good question to do with the other two. Why do you refer to this thing as "he"?
You really are tedious, aren't you. Did you not pay attention when I claimed I had read about 60% of it??
Did your nose grow longer when you wrote that?
I promise you I am very interested in the truth. It is you who would like to deny it.
From http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-gardner-4 and Wikipedia we get:
W. F. G. Swann writes on page 64 of The Architecture of the Universe (italics indicate edits, bolding indicates deletions):
Starting from any one of them [i.e., chemical elements], and noting some property such as the melting point, for example, the property would change as we went along the row, but as we continued it would gradually come back to the condition very similar to that which we started ... The eighth element was in many respects like the first, the ninth like the second, the tenth like the third, and so on. Such a slate of affairs pointnot only to a varied internal structure, but also to a certain harmony in that variation suggestive of some organized plan in building the atom.
Contrast with The Urantia Book's version:
Starting from any one element, after noting some one property, such a quality will exchange for six consecutive elements, but on reaching the eighth, it tends to reappear, that is, the eighth chemically active element resembles the first, the ninth the second, and so on. Such a fact of the physical world unmistakably points to the sevenfold constitution of ancestral energy and is indicative of the fundamental reality of the sevenfold diversity of the creations of time and space.
This is plagiarism of the ideas of Mendeleev; I don't have evidence of it but I would certainly bet that Swann would have acknowledged Mendeleev publicly in front of his students, or in print in some form at some stage, and were he or his students to be asked, they would acknowlwedge Mendeleev straight away. The UB acknowledges neither Swann nor Mendeleev. That is plagiarism, the passing of another's words or ideas as your own.
In the Book of Theft in Paper 12 we have:
Spectral lines are displaced from the normal towards the violet by an approaching star; likewise these lines are displaced towards the red by a receding star. Many influences interpose to make it appear that the recessional velocity of the external universes increases at the rate of more than one hundred miles a second for every million light-years increase in distance.
This is the unacknowledged idea of the HUMAN SCIENTIST Edwin Hubble, as described in Wikipedia:
Hubble's law is the name for the astronomical observation in physical cosmology first made by American astronomer Edwin Hubble, that: (1) all objects observed in deep space (interstellar space) are found to have a doppler shift observable relative velocity to Earth, and to each other; and (2) that this doppler-shift measured velocity, of various galaxies receding from the Earth is proportional to their distance from the Earth and all other interstellar bodies. In effect, the space-time volume of the observable universe is expanding (from a smaller past to a larger future); and Hubble's law is the direct physical observation of this process, as it unfolds.[1] The law was first derived from the General Relativity equations by Georges Lemaître in 1927.[2] Edwin Hubble derived it empirically in 1929[3] after nearly a decade of observations. The recession velocity of the objects was inferred from their redshifts, many measured earlier by Vesto Slipher (1917) and related to velocity by him.[4] It is considered the first observational basis for the expanding space paradigm and today serves as one of the pieces of evidence most often cited in support of the Big Bang model.
The law is often expressed by the equation v = H0D, with H0 the constant of proportionality (the Hubble constant) between the "proper distance" D to a galaxy (which can change over time, unlike the comoving distance) and its velocity v (i.e. the derivative of proper distance with respect to cosmological time coordinate; …
A recent 2011 estimate of the Hubble constant, which used a new infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure the distance and redshift for a collection of astronomical objects, gives a value of H0 = 73.8 ± 2.4 (km/s)/Mpc. …
In paper 42 we have this:
Matter — energy — for they are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality…The increase of mass in matter is equal to the increase of energy divided by the square of the velocity of light.
This is the unacknowledged discovery of the HUMAN SCIENTIST Albert Einstein.
More from Chapter 12:
The relative integrity of matter is assured by the fact that energy can be absorbed or released only in those exact amounts which Urantia scientists have designated quanta.
That this is the unacknowledged work of the HUMAN SCIENTIST Max Planck.
The formation of all matter is on the order of the solar system. There is at the center of every minute universe of energy a relatively stable, comparatively stationary, nuclear portion of material existence. This central unit is endowed with a threefold possibility of manifestation. Surrounding this energy center there whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits, the energy units which are faintly comparable to the planets encircling the sun of some starry group like your own solar system.
This is exactly the analogy the unacknowledged HUMAN SCIENTIST Ernest Rutherford gave on HIS discovery of the structure of the atom, copied without credit by Sandler in a brazen act of plagiarism.
Do you need more? There is tons scattered amongst the other laughably wrong claims made of the natural world.
I suppose if you have nothing original and useful to say to the world you can always plagiarise someone else. It is dishonest and illegal, but hey probably most people won’t know, and if you can dupe enough people into joining your cult then some of them will make extraordinary efforts to defend your theft.
Like you are doing here.
Stuart
How long is your nose now? Do you have difficulty fitting it into your house?No theft, the celestial beings know much more then the scientist do, but the revelation mandate doesn't allow them to disclose humanly undiscovered facts in that area.
You are to pig headed to realise that there is spirit and there is matter.
Caino
If some idiot comes along who wants to challenge what the UB says on the grounds that it does what it says it does (i.e., that it "plagiarizes ideas"), let them. It's just a case of a fool proving to the world they are a fool.
Here is a link that explains everything about why you are wrong. It is very similar in its nature to what you call ADDRESSING a point.
http://www.google.com
Stuart
Which definition did the Sandler / Kellogg crackpots or you have in mind?
How long is your nose now? Do you have difficulty fitting it into your house?
Stuart
Specific articles, the celestials themselves and knowledgable UB readers have already addressed this issue in detail. Your response above is ignorant.
pj
Plagiarism is theft of intellectual property. You are defending a thief, or rather a committee of thieves.:thumb:
A more wise endeavor would be contemplating its contents recognizing the meanings and values that contribute to man's condition and destiny, principles which include the fields of religion, philosophy and science....AS they relate to the total cosmology of Life and the grand purpose behind the evolving universes of time.
pj
The usual attempts to obscure.You have created a false dichotomy about this subject. A straw man. The sum total of your "scenic overlook" concept of God, based on a shifting foundation of logic, is that it has made you consistently angry and bitter.
Caino
I'm just stating the facts as defined in any dictionary. Quoting others or using their ideas without reference is the definition. Your denial is just really sad. What moral point are you trying to make by so tenaciously defending thieves?It's not plagiarism, Stuu no matter how many times you stamp your feet and get your panties in a twist and say it is.
Yes, my mistake. That's what it must feel like to be misrepresented by another, don't you think?And the man's name is Sadler, not Sandler.
Sadler married John Harvey Kellogg's niece, as in the famously nutcase Kellogg. Are you saying they didn't know one another?And you must have picked up Kellogg's name from some Martin Gardner writing. You really know very little about this subject.
It does not acknowledge them, so it is presenting them as its own. Further, the writing of Swann is copied but altered. Was it altered by a god? The textual evidence says it was altered by Sadler. Open and shut case, off to jail with him.Main Entry: plagiarize
Function:verb
: to present the ideas or words of another as one's own
The Urantia Book does not present those science ideas as its own. It acknowledges that it uses human concepts and ideas. Anyway, as noted, God already knows all things. (You are apparently an atheist?)
A shame we could not have asked a criminal court. The law was different back then I gather but the ethical principle wasn't.Block and many believers do not see the use of human source materials as plagiarism.
What a load of bollocks. Caino writes apology in exactly the same obscurantist way.Block writes:
One probable reason that the human sources were left undisguised was to enable students to discern, through comparative analysis, how this coordination of planetary knowledge was actually effected. As mentioned above, the initial analyses have already proved tremendously illuminating in this regard. Another reason was to keep us aware of the book’s anchorage in a specific time and place. While a very large part of the book is of timeless value and perennial applicability, some of its discussions directly address and respond to the world situation of the early 20th century. Thus, every generation will have to determine the relevance and applicability of certain of the book’s teachings to its own situation.
Theft is GRATIFYING? We are dealing with kleptomaniacs then.Emerging from all these discoveries is the gratifying realization that the Urantia Book is exactly what its authors claim it to be....
No, as I wrote earlier, they did not follow the convention of quoting intact with acknowledgement, they shamelessly stole the basic structure of Swann's writing then changed it. Without his permission.It should be noted that the wording and phraseology is not identical to the alleged source materials.
Absolutely. But this book does not have references through it like most honest books of non-fiction do which indicate the originator of the work. That would be fine if it was not confusing the issue of who is getting acknowledged in the section ENTITLED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT!Some ideas do not have to be credited, Stuu. They have simply passed into being common human knowledge. I can use the wheel (my car has 4 of them on the ground) without having to credit the inventor of the wheel. I can say the distance to Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light years without having to name the scientist or astronomer who first figured that out.
Believe what you like mate. This is not a valid argument against plagiarim. Unlike Sadler, I have actually quoted and given the sources of both his writing and the names or the authors or sources of the writing he stole in the examples I gave you. The extent of my reading or otherwise is irrelevant, but my estiamte is that it was a little under 2/3. And it was a tedious wade to get that much done. Should people believe me, who has no particular track record of dishonesty or motive to lie, or people who are defending prima facie plagiarists?Here's a review of Martin Gardner's book, btw: http://www.freeurantia.org/mgreview.htm
And I don't believe you've read 60% of The Urantia Book.
I only found the Swann source elsewhere, which I referenced you note. The rest is original research into the contents which I quoted for you. Really your apology is pathetic and is dodging the obvious.You're getting too many talking points from other sources.
Very careless on my part.You don't even know the name of the principle player, thinking his name was "Sandler." How sloppy is that?
Stuu, what are your credentials for calling Saddler a "crackpot" ? Here is his bio, what's yours?
Dr. William S Sadler
Professional background
Sadler was a professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital, and for over twenty-five years, a professor and chairman of the department of pastoral psychology at McCormick Theological Seminary. He held memberships in the following associations: Life Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Medical Association; Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; Member, American Psychopathological Association; Member Illinois Psychiatric Association; Member; Chicago Society for Personality Study; Member, Chicago Medical Society; Member, Illinois State Medical Society; Board member, W. K. Kellogg Foundation; National Association of Authors and Journalists; founder member and governing board, Gorgas Memorial Institute in Tropical and Preventive Medicine. He was a professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, director of the Chicago Institute of Research and Diagnosis, consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital, and for thirty years, a lecturer in Pastoral Counseling at McCormick Theological Seminary. As a pioneer he interested ministers in improving their work of personal counseling through profiting by the experience of psychiatric practice.
Sadler was a humorous orator and was a member of the Eugene Field Society, the National Association of Authors and Journalists, and International Mark Twain Society. He was a fantastic story teller and could take the roof off a building with laughter when he got going. As was common practice for those associated with the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the Sadlers were speakers for the Chautauqua assemblies, introducing the modern concepts of mental medicine and physical hygiene for the prevention of disease. For many years, at the Chicago Institute, Sadler taught clinics for physicians, ministers, and laity that covered the entire field of mental medicine that he liked to term "personology." Writing more than 42 books and numerous magazine articles, he authored such works as: Theory and Practice of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Nursing, The Mind at Mischief, Growing Out of Babyhood, Piloting Modern Youth, and The Quest for Happiness.
Sadler did not adhere to purely mechanistic or materialistic views of psychology and psychiatry and was a consistent advocate of broad and rational principles of psychiatry; he was among early American psychiatrists who placed an emphasis upon the importance of the preventive aspects of mental hygiene.[2]
No, it is exactly the same as yours. You just posted a link to the front page of an apology site for the UB.
Stuart
pjReligion must ever be its own critic and judge; it can never be observed, much less understood, from the outside. Your only assurance of a personal God consists in your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual. To all of your fellows who have had a similar experience, no argument about the personality or reality of God is necessary, while to all other men who are not thus sure of God no possible argument could ever be truly convincing.
101:2.14 - UB
School and accolades don't make a man right.
School and accolades don't make a man right.