Thorongil

You don't! It's a trick question. They reject truth and logic as tools of Western oppression. Hence, they are to be dismissed, not argued with.

Like Chany, there's still something fishy about this. For God to know her action before she chose it may not mean that God proximally caused the actio...

I would say there is a third option that people in this debate rarely talk about: that it could be better had God not created us or anything at all. T...

I'm saying we can't meaningfully talk about there being something or not something before the Big Bang. All such talk is by definition meaningless unl...

Yes, which was directed at your initial criticism, a criticism since shown to be based on a misunderstanding of what I intended to say. I guess we're ...

No, it doesn't. Lots of science popularizers say this sort of thing, but it's not technically accurate. The Big Bang is a singularity and a singularit...

Natural evil. I'm not actually too fond of this term, as I prefer to relegate evil to the sphere of intentional human activity, but it's one that phil...

And this is precisely what I did. What more do you want me to say?

Yes, in a sense. Or better: in certain forms. Most of them are, yes. Most people in general are morons. No, this is a non-sequitur. It's probably true...

And I never wished to imply that there was. Why are you being so obtuse?

Knowing a free choice is a contradiction in terms, as freedom implies the ability to do otherwise. If God knows the choices we make before we make the...

:-| This is the problem: Either address it or stop replying. It apparently did, prior to the fall. That's the problem to which I addressed my post. Th...

You're being coy I see. Of course it doesn't. It claims that the world, pre-fall, was "very good." The history of life we now know about says otherwis...

Go on.

What means all this?

First let me say that I've enjoyed reading both this thread and the other one on the free will defense, as I think your criticisms are cogently expres...

"We?" Speak for yourself! And the answer is because people are morons.

You don't have to remember. You can go ask/poll the Dutch Muslim population to see it in the present.

Dennett or Nagel? And at what?

Holy wall of text, Batman!

To kick ass and take names.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5P_idGhgkQ

Love, but not the erotic kind.

I must say that Middle Earth: Shadow of War looks pretty neat. Didn't play the first and might try that if it goes on sale. As a Tolkien fan, my conce...

This in particular commits the fallacy I mentioned.

I think the ambiguity lies in what the denial of the will means. Does it mean the destruction or annihilation of the will? That can't be it, since the...

Well, forgive me, but this sounds hypocritical and seems to commit the naturalistic fallacy I mentioned. That sounds better.

I'm not so sure about this. It seems this way, but that doesn't mean it is. Schopenhauer, for example, is ambiguous on this point. Perhaps you have sh...

In that case, being impaled causes one to lack health, indeed, to literally lack a stomach.

Well, I do. It's what enables the possibility of salvation. Against Schopenhauer, though, I would say that it can't be attained in this life. Absent t...

And neither would I. This is the side the pessimist should be on. It depends on what kind and how it occurs. I don't think it has done any such thing.

Because people are going to procreate whether you like or not. It's all well and good to point out the contingency of civilization and our existence, ...

Yes, life is not a self-justifying peepshow, but that doesn't mean it can't be justified. Because it's not self-justifying, there needs to be an argum...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQpJ4umcxk

So Trump's a fascist. Got it.

Good to hear. Will hold you to it.

And if it's offensive left wing views?

Lol. It's still a red herring.

So? Trump didn't cause the recession. You're bringing up red herrings.

Stupid, idiotic, moronic, misinformed, ignorant? All of those are fine by me. But I wouldn't then call him a Nazi....

Yes, that has been my point.

But not less than Venezuela, which was a silly example to use. The Venezuelan government has been misguided, even brutal at times, in the implementati...

Devastating refutation, that.

Yeah, I read all that too. You still haven't proven he's an anti-semite or a Nazi. This comment in particular can be read as turning the tables on you...

So here's what you do: Warn him in a PM that his words could be interpreted in a racist manner, but also encourage him to make a thread that more full...

He was trying to say that objectively in terms of numbers the Venezuelan socialist government's policies have resulted in a greater number of deaths t...

If you want to bow out, go ahead, but you have neither refuted me nor shown to me that Empty's ban was justified.

But you haven't proven he's an antisemite. When asked to do so, you said he "downplayed" the holocaust, without showing how he did so. We're entering ...

I'm not wrong. Cite the policy. And notice that you wrote: "You're likely to have more freedom in the Shoutbox."

This is still too vague. What does "downplaying" mean? You used that word earlier, but you also explicitly said he was a holocaust denier, so it seems...