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Yes, do that. And be amazed.
June 20, 2021 at 07:08
What's that Dummo? It's true. It's not false. It's true. Shall I help you out? I know what you're thinking better than you do. You're thinking "oh, bu...
June 20, 2021 at 07:00
And what are you on about? OP. Address the OP. And stop joining Banno in being dumb and thinking that if something is possibly true, it is true. Shees...
June 20, 2021 at 06:45
What are you on about? First: relevance to the OP? Bugger off and stop derailing, amateur. Second, I think the law of non-contradiction is true. True....
June 20, 2021 at 06:43
I don't think that's true even though I do think that sexism and sex stereotypes and homophobia is implicated in a lot of this. Subjectivism about sex...
June 20, 2021 at 06:10
No, I don't think so because by hypothesis those 'beliefs' wouldn't be beliefs at all. A belief is a mental state that has representative contents. An...
June 20, 2021 at 05:32
The credibility of a view is not affected by who endorses it - so the fact many sexists endorse subjectivism about sex isn't, in itself, evidence that...
June 20, 2021 at 05:15
I don't think subjectivism about sex is very plausible. But I don't see why it would be 'essentially' sexist to endorse the view (stupid, perhaps, but...
June 20, 2021 at 04:19
I think I am sympathetic to what you're saying. For like I say, I do think that at present this debate offers a way for a certain kind of sexist to ex...
June 20, 2021 at 03:14
I certainly agree with you that this is a debate where a lot of ugly sexist and homophobic attitudes have found a way of expressing themselves without...
June 20, 2021 at 02:54
It seems to me that whether it is metaphysically possible to change one's sex depends on whether one's sex is determined in part by a historical prope...
June 20, 2021 at 02:31
No, I don't think so.
June 20, 2021 at 02:12
I am an idealist who believes in many minds, not one. For clearly my mind exists and clearly so too does God's and clearly I am not God. And I think o...
June 20, 2021 at 02:10
I don't endorse that view - it is an idealist form of solipsism and it is patently absurd. But if it were true, then morality would still be what it i...
June 20, 2021 at 01:51
Idealism is not the view that one mind alone exists. It is the view that minds and their contents exist. It is monistic not because it posits one mind...
June 20, 2021 at 01:05
What on earth are you on about? Here's my claim: our faculties need to have been designed to provide us with information before they can be said to ge...
June 20, 2021 at 00:07
kindly note that you have offered no argument for your conviction that the omni properties cannot be borne by the same person. You - you - mentioned a...
June 19, 2021 at 23:52
No, obviously.
June 19, 2021 at 23:35
I do not know what you are asking me.
June 19, 2021 at 21:34
Once more: evidence is made of epistemic reasons. Those are attitudes of Reason. So, that means..........she's got control over what there's evidence ...
June 19, 2021 at 18:30
Once more: how does your example challenge my case? I am arguing that faculties need to be designed if they are to be capable of generating representa...
June 19, 2021 at 17:12
I have explained time and time again. Reason determines what's possible and what's what and what exists. Evidence is made of epistemic reasons. What a...
June 19, 2021 at 17:08
You should learn to listen to your betters. An omnipotent being can do anything. To be able to do anything requires being Reason, for otherwise one wi...
June 19, 2021 at 14:45
Garmin is designed to give you information. So how the hell is it a counterexample? I am arguing that our faculties need to have been designed to do w...
June 19, 2021 at 14:38
Has Garmin been designed to give you information?
June 19, 2021 at 14:09
I do not understand you. You argued that there cannot be more than one omnipotent being. Bu there can be more than one. There is no reason to suppose ...
June 19, 2021 at 14:03
No you're not. See argument.
June 19, 2021 at 06:06
Where did I say that God was infinite? Quote me saying it.
June 19, 2021 at 05:49
You seriously think you're in a position to tell anyone they don't understand something? Nothing you say makes any sense. Where did I say God was infi...
June 19, 2021 at 05:42
Right! Top marks. It doesn't have a mind. It isn't 'trying' to communicate, because it doesn't have a mind - so it doesn't have goals, purposes, desir...
June 19, 2021 at 05:40
Er, what? I mean, what are you on about? Reason can do anything, because Reason constitutively determines what's possible. Thus the omnipotent being w...
June 19, 2021 at 05:14
Where did I say she was infinite? I didn't. I don't know what that means. Strawman.
June 19, 2021 at 05:09
Where did I say she was infinite? I don't know what that even means.
June 19, 2021 at 03:28
What one earth are you on about now? You're just flailing around trying desperately to find problems. Shall we recap: omnipotence implies omnibenevole...
June 19, 2021 at 02:43
It is good to know that you spend part of everyday picking up the excrement of others. This world is a prison, and you've taken it upon yourself to pu...
June 19, 2021 at 02:39
Oh, this really isn't hard. What is the correct analysis of why this 'message' would not be a message if I am a bot? 'But it is a message' is not an a...
June 19, 2021 at 01:31
Really? Well this should be good. What are you going to do for an encore? "I jump grand canyon on peddling bike" Er, no. Just no.
June 19, 2021 at 01:05
It's not a possibility. There's no question you're finding this bewildering. You ask why an omnipotent being would be omnibenevolent. I tell you. I ta...
June 19, 2021 at 00:38
I am sure I have told you before: I am not religious. Reason. I listen to Reason. Is that so hard to understand? Psychoanalysis is not a person - it d...
June 19, 2021 at 00:25
No. Why would I do that? It's not 'my' God. It's God. Not anything I said. Just gibberish.
June 19, 2021 at 00:07
There is nothing paradoxical in anything I have said. It is straightforward. It's just bewildering you, because you are so convinced there are problem...
June 18, 2021 at 23:34
Yes, God can kill himself. And yes, it'd be wrong for him to do so. For he disapproves of himself doing so, else he would have done it. Of course, wer...
June 18, 2021 at 23:30
Yes, good people don't want to control every aspect of other people's lives. Good people let others make their own choices and will offer advice, not ...
June 18, 2021 at 23:24
Again: why is this apparent message not a message if I am a bot?
June 18, 2021 at 23:08
Look, why don't you read what I say? It's beautifully argued. I literally just explained how omnipotence implies omnibenevolence. Read it and weap.
June 18, 2021 at 23:06
No, my argument is testable. It will be falsified if you can show a fallacy in the reasoning or show a premise to be false.
June 18, 2021 at 23:01
Omnibenevolence is a misleading term as it suggests 'all benevolent', when in fact it means 'all good'. So in defining God as omnibenevolent one is no...
June 18, 2021 at 22:57
I've done so numerous times. 1. Moral imperatives are imperatives of Reason. 2. All imperatives have an imperator 3. The imperatives of Reason have a ...
June 18, 2021 at 22:35
What are you on about? Omnipotence implies omnibenevolence, as I have explained numerous times. If you are omnipotent you are the arbiter of moral goo...
June 18, 2021 at 22:29
I don't see any problem at all - someone who is sometimes wrathful can sometimes be forgiving.
June 18, 2021 at 22:24