ToothyMaw

Eugene, you aren't making sense. Read my reply to you earlier in the thread.

I'm just messing with you. But we have no idea what logical deductions are valid or not according to your view of God. Any random deduction could be a...

Yeah, just too bad God is a monster who lets people suffer gratuitously. :joke:

You are pretty clear in your reasoning, I don't get why some of the smart people on this forum don't understand your arguments.

So God could theoretically just choose to make there be no other contradictions, or could choose to make any contradictions they want to be true, true...

So we just dismiss this contradiction because it goes against our preconceptions? Doesn't it mean god can't be omnipotent? Or something? I mean, surel...

I guess what I'm saying is that if the consequences or parameters of a decision or course of action can be measured, we could theoretically have chose...

I don't think the ability to choose between infinite options would render one incapable of choosing. Like you said, one could walk straight in infinit...

But what about the argument that she must be omnipotent in possible worlds too in order to be truly omnipotent? I'm making the argument that if she di...

I'm sure I'm not, I just didn't read it anywhere, not trying to plagiarize or anything. I don't know if hardly anything I've written is truly original...

Who knows. I don't really even care.

I think it is less so that God is omnipotent and not omnipotent over the sum process, but rather that God can restore her omnipotence at any time, reg...

I think my argument stands so long as God is bound by LNC, but yes, otherwise it appears to defeat the OP. I'll have to think about this. Thanks for r...

I don't think he is actually a sociopath, I just think that his intense desire to be regarded as a big brain atheist manifests as verging on anti-soci...

lmao

Why the fuck does that garner a :100: ? You come across as a genuine sociopath, 180. I'm done with you. Shit all over this thread if you want, you'll ...

Likening religiosity to mental illness is taking it a little too far. And since when is mental illness characterized as having faith? Where is the con...

Maybe there is an element of randomness that brought the laws into existence, or is baked into the laws that could give rise to the universe? I'm no p...

But it doesn't. If you were reading the posts and read the OP you would see that I don't think God can do something logically impossible. You are bein...

Why couldn't the laws of nature have been eternal and have given rise to the universe?

Why does the universe need an original cause rooted in supernatural creators?

Hash this out somewhere else please. This is totally unrelated to the OP. I made no fideistic claims in this thread and neither did TC. No one is pros...

God could do that, or just actually divest themselves of their omnipotence. I think he (they identify as male I think) is saying god could do both tho...

If it came from God, who created God? Is it turtles all the way down? Have you done any research on this?

No.

You are trying to elicit some sort of response from me. But I'll go along. We have no reason to believe that God exists. No one has ever come up with ...

I agree: God, if they exist, is a monster.

At least you have a sense of humor, sort of.

Why isn't anyone even addressing the original part of my argument? Is the premise that controversial?

Is it logically impossible for god to lift an unliftable rock? Of course. What Bartricks is saying is that the unliftable rock contradiction doesn't m...

Sweet Jesus, dude, just stop. You don't need to smash every religious person you come across.

Thanks.

But he makes that argument too, yes.

Bartricks makes the argument that the unliftable rock isn't a contradiction because God being able to divest himself of his omnipotence does not contr...

It doesn't, because if God cannot divest themselves of their omnipotence, they are not truly omnipotent. Unless it is impossible for god to do so? But...

The more common definition of omnipotence is magical thinking? What? The one I provide is coherent. And even according to your own, the formal argumen...

I read the thread in which you made that comment, and I made a novel argument in this one. How about actually reading it and engaging with it?

There is a common definition of omnipotence and more narrow ones. What makes yours superior to any other? It seems to me you are bereft of the capabil...

I meant the "silly philosophers" bit, not what you said about the argument. I would be flattered to be considered even a "silly" or misguided philosop...

I don't really understand. God created us in the image of the world? Could you elaborate on what you mean?

I would say most philosophers of religion spend their time trying to fix the plethora of contradictions associated with the idea of an omnibenevolent/...

While I'm at it, why do you always have to quote yourself from other threads? Why not actually engage with the OP? Is it even fun to copy paste yourse...

Not when our piles of words reflect the nature of reality - which they often do. You could say the equations reflecting the motion of a projectile mov...

Your definition is far more narrow than any definition of omnipotence I've seen. And while it might be convenient for your argument, the fact remains ...

I am no authority on relationships or happiness science, but an auto-pilot is not to an actual driver what a pillow or non-conscious android is to a h...

Yes, why don't we all marry pillows. Really, though, it would have to be a pretty good simulation of a person to be an adequate spouse, I think. I mea...

Btw, when I say that Milley should or shouldn't do something I am referring to what I think would be smart for him to do; he can say whatever the fuck...

Yes, I know that any small detail can be considered confirmation of some backwards-ass belief, but my point that actually playing into the wokeness na...

Even though that is a neat little paradox, I think this is the best part of the portion of Arendt's essay I have read: "The rise of totalitarianism, i...

Of course not, but I think some people, including active service members, might think that those things are indeed indicative of pervasive wokeness in...