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Pandeism (as I've explicitly pointed out) means that 'the deity' BECAME the universe and therefore 'the deity' does not exist while the universe exist...

I agree with you both but iff the "Roswell, NM '47 crash & Area 51" 1950s era flying saucer (+ alien abductions) myth happens to be true. IMHO, the "U...

"Before the beginning" = north of the north pole :roll: Again, it makes more sense – cogently, parsimoniously, naturalistically – to substitute existe...

:up: NB: Nietzsche's suggestion that belief in life after death, being an immaterialist or being religious (e.g. a Christian) is nihilism – this life,...

You made the claim so you have the burden of proof. Believe whatever you fancy, sir – apparently, you don't understand the argument from poor design. ...

Compositional fallacy —> (believer's) confirmation bias. Also: your "creator deity / intelligent design" belief, sir, is refuted by the argument from ...

Yes, I don't see why 'Spinoza's God' (i.e. natura naturans) could not have produced – evolved-developed within the constraints of its 'physical laws' ...

Why assume existence "comes from" anything else or is "created"?

It makes more sense to me – cogently, parsimoniously, naturalistically – to substitute existence (or laws of nature (à la Laozi or Epicurus, Spinoza o...

Afaik, "perfectionism" & "salvation" are religious ideals, not ethical principles. For avoiding extremism (or dogmatism) in moral judgment, I prefer m...

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Just as atheists are less likely than religious people to "believe in" angels & ghosts. As you're well aware, we (confabulatory metacognitive) h. sapi...

"UFOs" = angels & ghosts :roll:

I do not think either term is used in QT. Afaik, "nothing-ness" is a nonsense term only used in naive metaphysics.

I think you are (like most others) confusing nothing with nothing-ness (which is self-contradictory or impossible). I agree F. Wilczek is not talking ...

So be a bum. Many people give up, get off the hamster wheel and drop out of "the struggle" e.g. monastics, hermits, homeless, (RV) nomads, off-the-gri...

Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/953124 This assumes that "beyond the Actual" – possibilism¹ – makes sense whereas beyond...

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Well I have never found a "good argument" for suicide either. Afaik, empirically, suicide does not solve any unsolvable problems or change anything th...

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Yeah "common" for philosophers, iirc, since A. Meinong¹. Simply put: existents are causally relatable to each other and subsistents (which are only in...

https://youtu.be/KG97EeY-Rg0?si=tAk0YoYhqZVMa_FE

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This is a pseudo-question because of its 'something/nothing' (fluctuation/vacuum) false dichotomy. The physical fact is 0.999 of every something (nonz...

Fallacy of misplaced concreteness (i.e. mapmaking =/= terrain). At most the PSR is, "like logic", a foundational property of reason.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/836240 Another follow-up https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/08/new-orleans-catholic-church...

NB: a cosmos (i.e. an emergent, autopoietic, dissipative fractal-structure) is only one of countless phase transitions of chaos (i.e. void, formlessne...

I define creativity as producing intentional accidents (i.e. disciplined improvisation).

So what is the sufficient reason (why) for the "PSR" (Why) or any so-called "sufficient reason" (why) as such?

Modern science is an artifact of 2,500 years of philosophy.

In contrast to 'instrumental good' or 'aesthetic good', I define ethical good as flourishing (eudaimonia) from the moral conduct (eusocial habits) of ...

:up: :up: My (dark) forecasting ... (2023) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/844458 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/...

The former is in part constituted by the former just as higher dimensional spaces / bandwidths are constituted by lower dimensional spaces / bandwidth...

@"schopenhauer1" ... https://youtu.be/-JMHWm7Z8M0?si=yjNFi4OSlrzamPU9 ... a quick summary of a dark pandeism¹ (e.g. contra 'Spinoza's God') rather tha...

:roll: That so-called "personal belief" is an application of Occam's Razor, or a regulatory principle for abductive reasoning¹ (i.e. philosophy, not "...

Also, by implication, I'm saying that, while "God" and the universe are equally improbable, "God" is completely nonevident such that parsimoniously th...

:clap: He won't respond to your actual criticisms or arguments because he can't. IME, @"Gnomon" is as disingenuous as he is an incorrigibly poor think...

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Sumus, ergo sum. (Spinoza ... Buber, Levinas)

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Pardon. It was your 'reasoning' that I didn't find relevant.

I don't see the relevance of your post to either the OP topic or my posts.

So what's your point?

Nothing new in this sort of "end times" anxiety except for the historical circumstances and particulars.

:up: :up: If you haven't already, consider this article on the impersonal forces which tend to collapse civilizations (or empires) ... https://www.the...

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