Brendan Golledge

I always just imagined that everything we experience is a model. For example, I can't experience the true essence of water directly (otherwise I'd kno...

Thanks for your replies, guys. It is true that from a purely naturalistic perspective, objective morals cannot be proven. In this vein, I was more int...

The general consensus among Christians is that the resurrection is the good news. If that's not it, then most Christians are mistaken.

If you want to use words the way that other people use them, then I think you have to believe that Jesus rose from the dead to be a Christian, because...

That is an interesting post. I've never thought about it that way before. But is there necessarily a contradiction in existence being evil? I usually ...

wow it sounds like you had almost the exact same idea as me years ago

You asked me to reply to comments that you had previously made. I don't think I entirely understood the comment about pandeism. It looks like you were...

It's very rare that I meet someone who seems to understand everything I say and mostly agree on everything. When you mostly agree, it's hard to find t...

I was imagining that Flannel Jesus was going to keep attacking my premises, and realized that my reasons for coming up with this philosophy were very ...

I haven't read all the replies yet, so I don't know if somebody else has said the same thing. The idea that you could replace any principle with an an...

Thanks for your kind words. 4 is a valid alternative, although it does mean that logic/science would not work to describe uncausal things. 5 seems to ...

I forgive you. I may have been overly emotional to criticism because this idea is important to me.

I think this is where I got the idea of mocking from, "I don't give a shit if you wipe your ass with it" I am aware that I can't prove that it is the ...

The fact that you are arguing about this makes me think that you didn't read past the paragraph that you quoted. The idea is that everything exists fo...

Well, you can interpret the moral implications however you want. However, it seems intuitive that just as an engineer has a special right to say what ...

If you want just a yes/no answer, then I'll say, "No"

I don't really disagree strongly with anything you said. it's hard for me to say much when I agree because there is really nothing to argue about. I w...

Western civilization is founded on INDIVIDUAL freedom and responsibility. The idea of reparations makes no sense unless you view justice on a racial r...

I read your post. It sounds like you are offering your own political model rather than addressing much of anything I wrote. I might read the wiki page...

Yea maybe my word choice wasn't the best. I guess I think emotions provide the motivation for thinking, but I suppose a thinking process can work just...

I agree with this. I thought of consciousness as just being, "having a model of the self," and this can clearly occur in degrees. And as I said before...

I am very happy to talk about this. But based on the reception to my previous posts, I thought I'd wait for someone to bring it up rather than write a...

(Value) + (Perceived event related to that value) -> emotion I will try to give a new example from recent experience. My wife hates it when I have hol...

There is so much to reply to, I don't know if I can get to all of it. As for the first paragraph, it seems to me that all values are arbitrarily asser...

You said yourself in a later post that it's obvious that dogs have feelings. When I think about what is actually happening when I feel an emotion, it ...

If human beings prefer to feel happy rather than to feel sad, and if we have the capacity to lie to ourselves, then it seems immediately apparent that...

I wouldn't be surprised if I made some mistakes. It felt like years ago that my opinions on things developed to the point where there was no name for ...

Oh wow I thought I'd reply to everything during my lunch break, but it looks like there is too much.

I read a book a long time ago called, "The History of God". I remember I liked it a lot at the time, but I can't remember much about it. I really like...

I am confused by the original post. It says it wants to clear up some things before making an argument, and then doesn't seem to make an argument. The...

I haven't done much research myself and I'm mostly going off testimony of scholars. Based on this, it is nigh impossible that the existence of Jesus w...

I think I could rewrite the main idea of my original post much more succinctly. I believe these three things: 1. There are historical elements to the ...

This is in line with the general idea of my main post. I believe that there are historical elements in the NT, but I do not know how much of it is tru...

I asked Chat GPT this: " Read the following quote: "If it's religious fiction, then why did the disciples die for it?" What do you think "it" refers t...

If it's religious fiction, then why did the disciples die for it? If it's entirely fabricated, then why is it universally accepted that Jesus was bapt...

I would argue that modern science didn't even really exist until Isaac Newton, so there is no science from 400-800. Science went from not formally exi...

It is not surprising to me that people continue to believe things that lots of other people believe. It is more surprising to me that a dozen men were...

A lot of people were talking about Bart Ehrman. I never read him, so I didn't really follow. People were also arguing about whether Jesus/Peter/Paul a...

I do not find the arguments that the New Testament was entirely myth convincing at all. They were at least based on real events. I made an argument in...

I googled again for the study on eye-witness accuracy, and found this: Link: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/testbookje/chapter/eyewitness-testi...

If I were speaking from a Hindu context, I probably would have talked about cows. My best guess is that cultures can evolve the same way biological or...

Human cults are much bigger. Based on the definition I invented, which is a social unit which claims for itself the right to decree truth, then cults ...

My motivation for writing it was that I was lonely because nobody lived in the same world that I did, I was trying to understand why it's so hard to c...

I am a bit handicapped in pointing out what I believe to be the most stupid in arguments about things that are in the social consensus, because I beli...

I see that it is rambling. I suppose if I wanted to summarize the things I thought were most important for this particular post they would be: humans ...

So we are not really in disagreement on that point.

I guess this is hard for most people to understand because it's a new way of thinking about it, but when I was thinking about God, I was thinking abou...

It seems to me that everybody is being super-pedantic about this. I am studying formal logic informally (without being in a class), so I'm not surpris...

I can do the same thing without equating := to <-> You can use a truth table to prove NOT X <-> (X -> F). (X -> Y) <-> (X -> F) in the case where Y is...

yea, I missed option 2