RegularGuy

I knew a guy in high school who said that people were so predictable. He was a manipulative psychopath.

Didn't time start at the Big Bang (as a relationship among objects moving in relative motion to one another)? So, as a matter of argument, couldn't Go...

How did you get so funny? You’re a character. :)

I have known a few Jewish atheists, in fact.

“Value” has a normative or qualitative connotation. Although what you said is true, I was talking about meaning.

I’m not sure we understand each other, and we should just leave it be. The thread is about the Trinity after all.

One’s own mind is certain. Other minds need to be posited. And conceiving what the universe was like before minds assumes a hypothetical viewpoint/min...

Okay. It’s good that you are willing to try to understand my point, but I think we have gone far afield of the OP’s intent. I really don’t wish to con...

Redundant nonsense? Of course there is an independent reality. We just can’t say anything meaningful about it without assuming the existence of a mind...

What it was in reality independent of minds is something that cannot be conceived. If reality at the Planck length is uniform, and if we can posit tha...

I don’t mean to derail the thread, but I will say my piece about this and leave it alone. Physical reality independent of minds doesn’t distinguish be...

You can’t hear your own voice?

Okay

i went to law school for a little over a semester (couldn't stand it, started getting deeply disturbed by the education and the people it attracted), ...

Thank you for sharing! I’ve felt for a long time that it is within all of us, provided we are given God’s grace or are willing to accept it.

lol

nerd.

No problem. You didn’t know my mind. I don’t adhere to any given church’s dogma.

I don’t give a fuck about Church fathers.

considered heretical by whom?

I’ll try. So, a person can be a father, a spouse, and a sibling. They are different orientations, but of one person. The essence of God is One. God th...

They are Each fully God but in different forms. At least that’s my take.

They are distinct in that they manifest Themselves differently, but They all share the same essence.

I just posted something on that in the other thread about the Trinity. Please read that, and you can address your questions there.

To me, the Father is what people usually mean when they think of the omniscient, omnipotent, Creator God. Jesus is his instantiation in human form. Th...

Is it immoral to lie if you feel like what you are lying about is morally permissible or neutral but the person you are lying to disapproves, in order...

You sound like a true saint. I’m glad there are people like you in the world. :)

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What I mean is, our urges may sometimes compel us to act in certain specific ways, but we may have certain boundaries in which we can act freely.

I am now of the opinion that we are predetermined in some respects, but we may also have some free will; but how is determinism proposing a tautology?

Do you mean Christ specifically, or do you mean like in the book of Revelation, or both? I find your position intriguing and also relevant to my curre...

You’re not related to Greg Handel of Wisconsin, are you?

I was lucky and unlucky. I’m a white man. Plus one (or maybe a thousand). I grew up in a middlish class family (my parents were correctional officers ...

You should. I think you would like it.

Have you read Slaughterhouse 5?

We are all programmed through public education or private religious education to follow the social norms of our society. The judge would consider limi...

I tend to think that we all have certain urges that compel us toward some action. Personally, I don’t get urges to run marathons, write esoteric equat...

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Though I don’t think most proponents of LFW would call our choices “uncaused causes”, but rather “self-caused causes”. However, this just pushes the p...

I agree with you.

Frankly, I find Craig’s response incomprehensible. It seems he believes in LFW because he wants to, not because he is following logic.

God is the eternal, omniscient creator. As an eternal Being, He is outside time. He sees all of time as an eternal Present. So, He knows all of time a...

You don’t get it.

But He creates you KNOWING what you would do. He didn’t create you without omniscience.

Also, God is the Creator. So not only does He know what you will do, but He also created you knowing what you will do. So, He created what you will do...

Forgive me. I’m thick. I’m but a child at your knee.

How does one make sense of this? A causes B and B causes A?

Basically, I am able to think logically about abstractions. However, when it comes to the personal and interpersonal, I am told I have false beliefs a...

That’s not what I meant. I mean does your view of intentionality separate it out from the external stimuli that may have caused it?

I think I addressed the difference between the metaphysical and epistemic terms in my previous posts. As far as if some characteristic is necessary or...