Bartricks

You're just being dismissive again without any arguments. It's getting tiresome. An omnipotent being needs to be Reason, because otherwise the being w...

Because you - you - said that it was a contradiction to say that Reason is not bound by any laws. So, not out of left field, but a direct response to ...

And you're really unpleasant. Byee.

The law of non-contradiction is a law of Reason - but it doesn't bind Reason herself. Plus even I appear able to do things in violation of it. What I ...

Hmm, well a bit right and a bit wrong. I have never been on reddit. Not realy sure what it is. I think I can back up most things I say. I mean, say wh...

No, I didn't. I argue with you when you disagree with me, not when you agree with me. So I disagree with your edit. Let's see how deep this agreement ...

No, I would argue that I do not argue with you when you agree with me. So I disagree with you about that.

Well that wasn't remotely clear. I am not a mind reader. You just stated, apropos nothing, that the omnipotent being would be essentially selfish. Now...

Not following - are you saying that being selfish and getting what you want are not - not - the same? If so, good - they're not. Then what is your arg...

You didn't say the omnipotent being is essentially selfish?

You think that I - I - think that selfishness and getting whatever you want are the same!? No, I don't. I'm not stupid. But you - not me, you - said t...

No it isn't. Are you saying that 'getting what you want' and 'being selfish' are the same?

Again, what is your argument? How are you arriving at your conclusion? Are you saying that getting what you want and being selfish are synonymous? Or ...

No, it isn't nonsense. It is sophisticated. But by all means assert things rather than argue them. That's your style.

To be omnipotent is to be able to do anything. Anything. So, can he be something he does not want to be? Yes, obviously. That does not mean that he is...

No, I don't see how you've arrived at that conclusion.

Yes, he is not bound by any law. Including any law that says that an omnipotent being is not bound by any law. I think it clearly is a truth of reason...

He has the ability to be any way he wants to be. So that includes having the ability to be ways he doesn't want to be. I don't want a coffee, which is...

Let's just start with omnipotence. A being who is all powerful gets whatever he wants. So, by virtue of being all powerful an omnipotent being will ha...

Because no-one is pressing the most obvious and cutting criticism of the view I am defending, it seems it is up to me to respond to it. That is, for w...

Oh very witty. Well that at least has the merit of being valid. But it isn't sound. It does, however, accurately express how you think.

Either argue something or go away. Your contributions lack both insight and wit, so they're just an annoying distraction. Go and find another thread t...

my argument refutes all rival positions. You genuinely don't have the first idea how arguments work, do you? Yet you're confident you do, and confiden...

Thank you, Hugh. Insightful as ever. I am having a bit of trouble with your simile though. I am like a troll in a cave who, even without looking, is s...

Well, obviously I'm confident I can deal with it. But I'm also interested in what's true and so want to test my argument against a rival reasoner. Tha...

Yes, so "the observer is the observed" is false. I am observing a cat. Yet I am not a cat. Let's replace it, then, with 'the observer can be observed"...

No, I am my self just as you are your self. But, like I say, tell me more about this self that you say you can observe. Does it have a colour?

For instance, I am observing a cat. Am I the cat I am observing? no. I am now observing a table. Am I the table I am observing. No. I am observing a c...

No, you mean "I observe my self" not "The observer is the observed". Plus you don't. But Meh. Let's just be clear though "The observer is the observed...

Yes, I'd say there's a very decent chance of that. But prove me wrong - use what you've gleaned from these hacks and show me where I've gone wrong.

Water balloons of ignorance against my machete of truth more like. Have you ever considered that perhaps the reason no-one can dent the argument is th...

Hot air. Address the argument. Maybe put to use something you've read in the literature - for you're quite right, I haven't read any of it. Just Desca...

No, I have only read the Discourse on the method and the Meditations, and his correspondence with Princess Elizabeth. Nothing else.

The hammered is the hammer.

But a being who could create a rock too heavy to lift, and lift it, is even more powerful than one who could only do the former.

Oh, well thanks for that total waste of time. I thought you were laying some big trap for me - laying a trail of little question bread crumbs all the ...

Yes, that's what I said. Do you have a lift, or are you still using stairs like a rookie. I am not sure what your point is. Maybe you could furnish me...

Have you read the OP? It tells you. For something to be morally valuable it must be being valued by someone. But evidently not your or I. So, for some...

Yes = all moral value is a kind of value, yes.

Er, I am the OP. What on earth are you on about? Look, this exchange is going to get mighty rude mighty fast unless you up your game and start making ...

Er, what? Premise 1 says something about what it takes for something to be morally valuable. For something to be morally valuable, it needs to be bein...

You can't follow a valid argument - as you've just demonstrated. Where is the contradiction? Those two claims are consistent. Together they 'entail' t...

You're just making rookie mistakes. That is, you're conflating experiences with that which they are experiences of. Imagine that I read a book about C...

Note too that I did not start from that premise - I mean, where do I make such an assumption? I assume that only that what reason represents to be the...

Er, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Blimey - have you been paying attention at all to anything? I have been arguing that my values - that is, my valuings of thing...

But that's the opposite of what I said. Omnipotence does mean being able to do anything. I mean, it doesn't get more powerful than that. And being abl...

No, I don't take everything literally. But nor do I take everything to be a metaphor. Now, what evidence do you have that "the observer is the observe...

Well, you can 'define' a mind as 'a peach', but that won't make it one. If there is a thought, there must be a mind to bear it - yes? Doesn't your rea...

Yes, I know. That's what I too have argued. When I judge an act to be morally bad I am clearly not judging that I myself disvalue it, or that you do. ...

No, premise 1 says nothing about our 'experience' of moral value. Rather, it says something about what it is to be morally valuable - it says that to ...