Barkon

God is the empirical footprint.

In theory God is above reality, not simply the face of it if he is as powerful as what being ultimately good would mean.

God can't leave the kind of sign that spoke untruth if he was ultimately good, thus God is the face of reality, because reality would be in the image ...

Is God the evolving master-class, supreme intelligence? If he desires us to be ultimately good then through it we would only become better?

To add, if God exists, it is omnipotent, and it's fair to say, egotistical.

Either 1 or 2. 1. We never do anything improbable(given enough prediction power). 2. The determinator catches up and re-determines from when an improb...

fine. Then I concede. However it seems like a poor choice of words.

Let's say it's determined that I will go to do something and then deny that action because I want to test if it is inevitable. That's a determinable t...

then it should be called inevitablism, not determinism. Having determined something will happen is not the same as it being inevitable.

your last paragraph sounds like word salad, it's completely nonsensical: If determinism is true, and (it; who? What?) determines all our thoughts and ...

If determinism is true that's that all our actions are determined. That's all. It doesn't mean it's determined by causes external to our will. If it's...

Why does something being determined mean that the person has no control? Perhaps it's just predictable behaviour.

Isn't religion, educational things (including philosophy) put in practical use considering the nature of living on this planet? Sure, God is significa...

Nothing is the reduction of everything from everything, only then would you have nothing. To claim that things ever were a state of nothing, or that t...

The status quo where if one does good, beneficial effects incur, sometimes species wide. This behaviour keeps the planet going. Perhaps we need to def...

Clearly take your chances with the human because there's a chance it's a good one. It's like a lottery with the human. Where as, with the bear, it's a...

Being is meeting the condition of having rational activity, such as consciousness being the rational activity of a brain and body online. Or shoppers ...

I've always thought consciousness does being. It is the being aspect.

Does this mean that what's external to mind is possibly a matrix of different quality than what's perceived by mind?

Good isn't something decided by others. Good can be concerning groups or somebody alone, and their seeking of positive outcomes for their group or for...

I don't think anyone can argue against that good is a positive outcome, it's why you say 'this is good' as a compliment to some product. It was a posi...

Will is not action, will is forwarding of future action. You don't will something, and immediately act, it's more an essence of a action to be. Do we ...

Is "Love" ever experienced stand-alone, above the fact it was chemicals of the body and mind? I would say yes, the mind doesn't force us to reduce lov...

I can agree with this, rather poetic example.

A human replicates through reproduction, which isn't entirely logical, you don't need to know about how to reproduce, and you probably end up reproduc...

Well. Each to their own.

Creativity is an attribute of mind, it is it's ability to create, whether the creation be new or old. Artwork is creative, but so too is an experiment...

Pleasure is associated with sin - take greed for example - the want for more of something(some pleasurable source). I wouldn't even call God under the...

1. It doesn't make any less sense it being abstract, must we fear the abstract? 2. I never said pleasure sense is all negative, I said it has negative...

God is a concept in the bible, and in the bible it says "sin is opposite to God". I'm just putting 2 and 2 together. Nothing unintelligible about it, ...

Nature here is largely unfair, there is encroaching doom to the people who wonder into the dark; packs of hungry animals may just find you as food. Yo...

In the bible it states that Sin is opposite to God. Sin is the things we do that benefit our pleasure sense, often things that have negative associati...

Good is in the beneficence. Nobody is obligated to help others, though it may be a good endeavour. Making sacrifices for nothing can result in lots of...

If the universe happened without a cause, it would certainly be a simulation; otherwise all things need a cause for them being there. If all the stars...

It's a case of survival, one must do what is ought to survive.

Positive outcomes. Having a good heart is having a heart filled with opportunity to create things that benefit you. You would have purpose, you would ...

You are not responsible for morality, it is your choice, but being immoral has repercussions. If we're judging by amount alone, then it's always moral...

Simulation doesn't have to be contrary to the norm of reality, simulation can coincide with the norm. For example, each star may have a system, and ea...

There are wars out there that cannot be understood, only reckoned with.

Depends on many things. If, as depicted, it would be a relatively quick death, then I would base my decision on 'who', rather than amount. If it were ...

It's probably best not to. Save the feral collusion of people against objects.

It might be a case of 'they're all cranks saying crank'.

agreed.

Basically it's being suggested by the opposition that if we make a plan, it's not us, but some universal force controlling us to make a plan, and thus...

doesn't that take all the sufficiency out of a plan, in that by creating a plan to follow, we end up following a different route into the future. The ...

I'm asserting that if we aim to change course, i.e. switch the mode we're in (what we're doing right now) it changes the future indirectly.

it seems you believe query of whether everything is determined or not, outweighs 'what is.' In this way you suggest that 'determinism means that you c...

definitely.

that's correct.

not necessarily, it's indirect.