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Once again: you are begging the question. There is no empirical evidence that simultaneous causation is impossible. And it is its possibility that I a...

you have just taken as gospel the very thesis whose credibility is in question, namely that every cause precedes its effect.

Question begging

Like I say, read the OP and try and address something argued in it.

That makes no sense. Come on - what's a possible world and how is one different from a toity world?

I'm a philosopher. Now, what do you understand a possible world to be? And can you distinguish one from a toity world?

Then you are as lacking in humour as you are in insight. Substitute 'possible' for 'toity' and 'necessary' for 'hoity' and then see if that produces a...

I have put it in my Haglund.

You don't seem to read what I say. I explained earlier that it is not. If self creation is coherent, then there can be nothing and then something. Tha...

What are you talking about? I don't believe in possible worlds. I believe in Toity worlds. Have you read Toity Worlds by Prof. Boule Sheet? Prof. Shee...

I really can't spoon feed you this stuff anymore. It's going all over your bib.

Yes it is. Read the OP. Why might someone suppose self-creation to be impossible? The only reason I have ever encountered is this one: it would requir...

Onions aren't cows. Shall we list some more things that aren't other things? (Note, you're now going to want to ask questions about onions and cows, y...

Yes there is. Read it again. Keep reading it until you understand it. If that doesn't happen then I suggest you return to trying to force that square ...

Read the OP.

It's called an 'example' or 'thought experiment'. What, you think I think there is actually a canon ball on a cushion somewhere? Christ. The thought e...

Sigh. If you think you can have an actual infinity of prior causes - an incoherent notion - then the universe could be eternal yet that would not amou...

Jesus. No. It. Doesn't. This is pointless as you seem so determined to make this about time and not what it is actually about that we're not going to ...

No I haven't. I pointed out that an eternal universe is not an example of something self-created. If there is an eternal universe then it would be an ...

What's causing the dent? The ball. When is it causing it? All the time.

Confused gibberish. An eternal universe would not be an example of self-creation, but of self-existence. This thread is about self-creation: that is, ...

It has nothing to do with time's direction. It has everything to do with simultaneous causation. If simultaneous causation is coherent, then there is ...

You're not really getting this: the ball would be causing the dent. That's simultaneous causation. Just describing other features of the case in no wa...

Substance causation is causation by a substance. When the substance is an agent it is called 'agent causation'. You are simply referring to agent caus...

It didn't 'get there'. It has always been on the cushion. I gave another example too. Substances - things - can cause events. Anyone denying this is g...

That's not the example. In the example - Kant's example - the ball has always been on the cushion. And I gave another example - substance causation.

No it doesn't. Again - look at the case I made! I presented two examples of simultaneous causation. Those cases seem to demonstrate that causes do not...

No I didn't. I asked you if causes must always precede their effects. I had presented a case for thinking that they do not have to precede their effec...

I don't know what you mean or why you're saying these things. This thread is about a particular issue, namely whether self-creation is coherent. It's ...

Question begging. I provided examples of simultaneous causation. So, simultaneous causation makes sense. And if simultaneous causation makes sense, th...

I made a case. You're not addressing it. You're just telling me your opinion.

That's flagrantly question begging. I gave two examples (one from Kant) that appear to involve simultaneous causation. So, those examples constitute p...

Dennett is an idiot. He's barely discussed in the free will literature. All he's contributed is the phrase 'free will worth wanting'. He's not really ...

What on earth are you on about?

Causation does not imply change (I said above that I do not believe that causation entails change). You don't seem to have fastened onto the relevant ...

My claim that self-creation is possible does not entail that you created yourself. If I say that it is possible to be a billionaire, it is no objectio...

Where did I say there can be causation without change? I think there can be, but I never said any such thing. My claim is that there can be simultaneo...

The whole point is that the ball is clearly causing the depression even if there was never a time when the depression did not exist. What you're doing...

No, that's quite wrong. You seem to think that our convictions determine how things are with reality. No. Substance causation is causation by a substa...

Yes, it is a dogmatic conviction. You can show me to be wrong by providing an argument for what you have just asserted. Substance causation is coheren...

I presented an argument for the coherence of self-creation in the OP. You're not saying anything that addresses it. Is it correct, for instance, that ...

No, by 'innocent' I mean 'not deserving of harm'. You, I think, must be assuming that babies are innocent. And this, I imagine, is because you also as...

They are here, aren't they?

I am taking God's existence for granted. Then I am reasoning like a boss. God would not allow anyone to piss in your milk or steal your honey if you w...

Let's say Roger and Tim have free will and that Tim is perfectly innocent and is a good person. Roger has announced that he is going to piss in Tim's ...

Er, what? None of that made any sense at all.

Philosophy is essentially concerned with the nature of reality. Philosophers, then, assess the likely truth of a view that attempts to describe realit...

Not really following this are you? If God exists, then God isn't treating you unfairly. No matter what happens to you, God wasn't being unfair in allo...

If there is piss in your milk and someone steals your honey and God exists, then it was fair for God to allow someone to piss in your milk and steal y...

By hypothesis God is omnibenevolent. 'God' with a capital G denote a person who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. If such a being exists,...