m-theory

If god does not decide this who does? If I decide the fate of my soul, then what power does god have over me?

In reality there is no if. It is often in the news the controversial of an alleged war declared on christmas and on christianity. So back to my questi...

Yes I understand what you value, but what I asked you to do was imagine that there are those that have different values from yourself. What if god exi...

To this point then. Imagine that you value rationality and reason and the Pascal's wager is posed to you? Do you see how the person that values reason...

This is simply not true. A physicalist maintains that matter/energy as well as time and space are real.

No I am making a point of my own. There are four results that are possible. You do not believe and gain nothing. You do believe and gain nothing. You ...

If it is not a logical argument then how is that you can claim Pascal's wager is valid?

The wager fails if god does not provide salvation, which we would have no way to be sure if god is unreasonable and irrational.

We do lose something if we are expected to believe in irrational and unreasonable things. We lose reason and rationality.

Thanks.

We can't know if god is consistently good if god is unreasonable and irrational.

I have pointed out that belief in god brings you nothing if god is unreasonable and irrational. You gain nothing if that is true, which would mean Pas...

My point was if some said they declared war on christmas, it is regarded as controversial. I am asking why that does not also hold true for the religi...

Who declared war on Islam?

I am pointing out that belief in god is not enough. You have to also believe god is reasonable and rational and will save you. Believing in an irratio...

That is a bummer, mind if I ask why?

If god is unreasonable and irrational you have no way to know if there will be any salvation from belief.

So what does it mean to declare war on Islam? Is like a war on christmas? If so why is controversial to declare war on christmas but not when there is...

Thanks, yeah I meant lose.

A free to play causal game I rather enjoy is wormax.io.

I think you are missing the point a bit. There is something to loose from believing in an irrational and unreasonable god. You loose the assurance tha...

OK, I am on my deathbed (eventually I will die). If I decide there is a god then I can only accept Pascal's wager if that god is reasonable and ration...

This is my response to Pascal's wager. Pascal's wager is only valid if we assume god is reasonable and rational and thus will hold up his end of the b...

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I like small talk. It cheers me up and I have a sense of community when I chit chat with the passerbys I encounter. To me small talk is a way to conne...

What country do you believe has declared war on the religion?

This was cool, I learned something from it thanks. I also see how it applies to politics. If you think you know what other people believe that does ha...

. To me there is nothing interesting to discuss. Solipsism is not a very compelling philosophical topic. It can only be hypothetically the case, and e...

It is not my burden to prove that self recursion regresses infinitely. It is your burden to show how you escape self recursion.

I feel like you don't understand as a result of your belief that because you can semantically express your assertions without infinite regress that th...

This seems like small talk to me. Why should I consider it important?

you might also like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm-rb8k1HkU

The US cannot be at war with a religion. That would be a violation of the constitution, in particular freedom of religion. We are not at war with Isla...

I think I agree. Or at least I could not make sense of it otherwise. To me it is something akin to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_animal

I am saying that yes the problem of self recursion does apply if the notion that things do not have independent existence applies. So if your sentence...

Yeah again it is not about semantics where you say something in particular that is self recursive the infinite regress is of syntactical consequence. ...

This seems to fall in line with the claim that we only have subjective access to information, so yes to me this would be subject to the issue I raise....

Lol. Good point.

So your's is a common point of confusion and I can relate because I did not understand myself not all that long ago, and I made the same mistaken assu...

Do you think he would win if he runs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY

No to say something is undecidable is to say there is no axiomatic system that can be used to resolve the question in a finite amount of steps. If som...

Oh I don't know of any proofs that universe is incomprehensible. Maybe this? https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04573 It is a proof that a problem in physics ...

I said this would be true only if you exercise the ability to be powerless. If you are without power, then by definition, you cannot also have all the...

That is true, but it could be that the universe is more strange than we are even able to comprehend.

I don't know if an omnipotent being is possible or not. I don't care. My point is that having all the powers is not the same as using all the powers. ...

I suppose, but your question made me think of this quote. -J. B. S. Haldane

I think the universe is a good example. We don't have a theory of everything so in a sense the existence of the universe is yet inconceivable to us, b...

Having the power to make yourself powerless is not the logical equivalent of exercising the power to become powerless. You can have the power to make ...

My mistake I thought you were suggesting that in the hard sciences it was an even split among left leaning and right leaning views. That would be news...