god must be atheist

The wrongness in other views lies in this: Those who declare there is weak determinism, declare that their observation is not complete, and their own ...

Good question. I believe there are other views, and they are wrong. You seem to indicate that there are other views that are not wrong. Specifically a...

This is not my argument, to be honest. You wrote something I don't understand. If you want to verify what my arguement is, this following is what it i...

Because it's the truth? Have you ever entertained that possiblity?

I am sorry you lost me there. You are talking nonsense, do you realize that? If you make symbols, and want to communicate with those, you must denote ...

And you seem to be quite happy and comfortable accepting that there are WRONG different views. I am not. This is what philosophy is about. To beleive ...

So you accept there are differences, without observing and figuring out why there are differnces... leads to the weak logic I talked about, meaning, m...

If there were in reality weak determinism, then there would be weak Darwinism, weak Relativity Theories, weak Quantum Mechanics, weak arguments and we...

Thank you for the explanation. Probabilistic phenomena only apply to those thinkers (all humans, basically) who can't fathom or encompass all knowable...

You bet. I enjoyed it every bit, too.

Not everything that DEvans99 says is crap. You can't use things that he says right against him. Concentrate on things he is wrong about. But in my hum...

Sure there is support of determinism (there is no divisions between determinism such as "strong" "weak" etc; there is determinism, period). Everything...

I think accountability rests on a completely different mechanism. It is not on freedom of will that it rests on; but it rests on the persona who is ca...

I get you. So you avoid discussing something we are discussing. You just want to talk about it as a logical principle. Whether I understand you or not...

It's nearly three o'clock in the night at my location. I'm turning in. Good night.

This was a rhetorical question which I proceeded to answer. Please read my entire post that contained that. The post answers the rhetorical question, ...

Dear Relativist, I don't want to go into morality, or ethics, because I wrote a huge paper on it, which I wish to publish but it's not going well, bec...

This is a totally different ball game. You can influence others' behaviour by moral upbringing or by enforcing the law. Let's focus on the law, and I ...

here you have to be extremely careful, with the processing of the ideas, Relativist. The choice is yours, but it's not free... it is restricted, and p...

Things of different complexity still obey determinism. It makes no difference how complex one mechanism is and how simple another one is. They both ob...

Because what you want is a product of causes. Not a product of an unrestricted fancy.

Would you deny any one of the intervening steps of causation as a true step of cause and effect between the Big Bang and your eating Corn Flakes for b...

I am sorry, Relativist, but your own simile or parallel is lame. On one hand you say the Grand Canyon has been predictable by the events in the Big Ba...

how can you call this freely willed, when it's completely determined previously? Freedom is the lack of confinement. Yet our choices by our will are c...

This is precisely how I see it, too. And because everything in me was caused, it was caused to be one way only, and these one ways make rise to a will...

This is good enough for me. The predictive factors are so large in numbers, and so diverse, and some are partially, some are totally hidden from human...

Compatibilism is an invention by some peace-maker-to-be, who decided to invent this notion, in order to appease people who would be otherwise on the v...

That's right, MrCrowley. I fully support your view.

our internal impulses, desires, etc. are all regulated by outside forces. They are "inside" of ourselves, if you so will, but they themselves have bee...

At the ultimate, there is only one possible outcome for any choice, because the timeline of reality does not allow two different AND concurrent outcom...

Yes, the choice is ours; but it has been predicated. Whether by internal or outside factors, the choice is always pre-predictable. Also, not all thing...

That's good news.

Drinking too much water makes your kidneys (I wrote liver before, but that was wrong... the doctor warned me of kidney failure, not liver failure) wor...

Quite the contrary. Your (and mine and other old folks') decisions are better because we are predicated differently, and you conveniently for me, desc...

Therefore my will would have been predicated by a different set of causes. Determinism stands.

My urologist advised me to drink less water. He said I was on the verge of imminent liver failure. I resisted his call, which declared I had been addi...

For God's sake. Everyone does God's work, if you believe in God and all the accouterments around the concept. Come to think of it, God may have create...

I had other interests as well, like helping you with (potential) diabetes, and with weight loss.

Glad you found the love of your life. How did you get out of paying back the student loans? How did you get out of continued child support payments to...

I don't know if you are joking or not. Left handedness has a Latin name "sinister" which in our present day language means dubiously evil. And then yo...

This future scientist in the Star Wars galaxy could be working on a type of touring machine that creates films that are not full of tripe and flashy s...

I mean, he predicted in his life, pretty accurately, what I will do X years later, without knowing me, my parents or anything about me. He just knew I...

This is precisely what went on with me then. My language skills do not measure up to the presented topic. I have no clue what universalism is, and muc...

What I read is that you are saying that people run out of things to learn in a non-infinite time, yet they have to keep on living endlessly. This caus...

I am awfully sorry, Marchesk, but in my favourite universe when someone introduces a topic, they describe the situation in their own words, and not si...

One note about my post there: I read what is asked and I gave a straight answer. Most people will go into a philosophizing about this or that or the o...

How do I feel about free will if I had some. or not had any. - I like that I am responsible for my actions whether there is free will or not. - I like...

He had said the opposite?

I burn in shame. Misuse of words is an abuse of language. Misusing the language in philosophical circles is like scattering scatological fragments in ...

Interesting mish-mash of trivia. And some deceptively good points. The best point in your essay is the role of the external support for personal stren...