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Nope. It only questions the ability to degrade it's power. And, according to your attempt at logic, god doesn't have that ability. Thus it isn't omnip...
April 30, 2022 at 04:57
How you phrased that reminded me of Schrödinger's Cat. Maybe god is in a superposition of being able to create the rock and lift it - until you make a...
April 29, 2022 at 23:04
Where exactly do you see the fault in the logic? I don't see it.
April 29, 2022 at 18:50
Logic isn't wrong, but you can make errors when trying to apply it. But dismissing an argument without explaining the fault in the logic is not a logi...
April 29, 2022 at 18:13
1. You didn't answer my question. 2. Do you? Or are they more likely to ask back "which one"? Referring to a specific god as "God" at least propagates...
April 29, 2022 at 17:58
When you travel to another country, lets say Sweden, does your name change into "Hansson"?
April 29, 2022 at 17:39
I'm not sure but you seem to confuse the distinction of "inner state" versus "position" and "hard" and "soft". They are orthogonal. The former tells w...
April 29, 2022 at 17:33
"God" is not the name of any god, it is more like a title. Monotheists often forget that fact as their only god is identical to all titular gods they ...
April 29, 2022 at 17:32
Or, in other words, my god isn't limited by logic. That, for me, is the ultimate conversation stopper. Because, if you don't accept reason, why should...
April 29, 2022 at 12:17
"It is better ..." is a value judgement. There are no objective sets of values. So every statement "X is better than Y" should be read as "Given my va...
April 29, 2022 at 05:49
Yep. An important difference. "I believe in god(s)" is not a debatable assertion. I could reply "I don't" but that would be the end of the conversatio...
April 28, 2022 at 22:20
How many gods there are. If it has the properties omnipotence, omniscience, omni benevolence, omnipresence. If it is (perfectly) just, (perfectly) mer...
April 28, 2022 at 22:05
I hate to break it to you but you don't. You may have an illusion of knowledge, just as they do but if you put your "knowledge" to the test, you'll fi...
April 28, 2022 at 21:43
It would be so much easier if the Theists could decide what they mean when they say "god".
April 28, 2022 at 21:27
Short version: Theists don't agree what a god is. Slightly longer version: Knowledge is transferable. If I know something, I can teach you, show you t...
April 28, 2022 at 21:22
It would be nice to be able to defend such a position but I can't (yet). The only thing I can defend is that god is currently not known.
April 28, 2022 at 21:10
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#2 because in most cases there are multiple ways to be wrong and only one way to be right. E.g.: 2 + 2 = a) 2 b) 22 c) 5 d) 11 If all answers are righ...
April 28, 2022 at 20:14
I agree. And neither Theism nor Atheism are well formed propositions, thus can't have truth values.
April 28, 2022 at 20:03
And theism or atheism does?
April 28, 2022 at 19:56
Exactly. (And for the agnostic there is no way to claim that s/he and only s/he is unable to gain that knowledge without special pleading. So there ar...
April 28, 2022 at 19:52
The word "god" gets defined by P1. "Clapton is god" is short for "I define god as Clapton." And since you obviously know Clapton and you know he exist...
April 28, 2022 at 19:35
No equivocation intended, nor do I see how you see one (except, as @javi2541997 noted, for grammatical reasons). The argument has the basic form of A=...
April 28, 2022 at 18:32
I agree. And I said so in the OP. I was primarily focused on the distinction of inner state versus position. Agree again. The former is often referred...
April 28, 2022 at 17:21
I don't think about it as long as I don't get a definition. But for the rest, yes, there is a possibility that god exists. I can even prove it to you....
April 28, 2022 at 16:34
I'm 59 but ancestors from both parents sides have reached about 100 in a time when the average life expectancy was half of what it's now. So I expect ...
April 28, 2022 at 14:42
"Theological noncognitivism is the non-theist position that religious language, particularly theological terminology such as "God", is not intelligibl...
April 28, 2022 at 14:17
It is more a reference to the term "going into silicone" for uploading as used in cyberpunk novels. So, yes it means electronic computing but not nece...
April 28, 2022 at 14:04
Thank you.:heart:
April 28, 2022 at 12:59
Briefly. The technology is much too young to anticipate if it will become useful in the process of "uploading". Again, too early to say. I'm not even ...
April 28, 2022 at 12:54
I think you are missing something here. In Aristotelian logic, only well formed propositions can have a truth value. Neither "god exists" nor " god do...
April 28, 2022 at 11:16
Hi, how long does it usually take to approve a post? I posted yesterday on the brain upload thread but that post seems to be stuck in limbo.
April 28, 2022 at 09:22
Wait - does that mean I just have to spam the forum with five messages and my sixth will come through without going to pre-moderation?
April 28, 2022 at 09:22
I'm with you in the general scepticism about the feasibility just on sheer complexity. And it doesn't end with the "electronics" of 10 billion neurons...
April 28, 2022 at 09:22