Your OP is brilliant and everyone should read it. It will undoubtedly inform my own views on ethics, so if you were shooting for changing people's min...
Thinking about it some more: I suppose that if someone like William Lane Craig that claims to be a rational Christian or whatever couldn't contend wit...
Yes, I get that, I was just operating on the assumption that we were talking about people with beliefs about the afterlife, or people that might have ...
My argument should reduce anxiety, actually: it should be comforting to know that one's beliefs and guesses about a potentially comfortable, earth-lik...
You presume that I am trying to persuade people to believe in a certain account of what the afterlife is. What I might try to persuade people of is mo...
When I say that the likelihood of guessing the correct UH approaches zero, I mean that any possible guess instantiated by the perfect selector has an ...
I did not say "infinite" but rather "potentially infinite", which is different insofar as I when I use that term, I am denoting a set of unique events...
We can make that claim because a perfect selector is selecting from a potentially infinite number of unique events to form guesses at an UH (unknowabl...
Are you referring to an unknowable hell or a hellish, earth-like afterlife here? If we are talking about an earth-like afterlife: I totally concede th...
Coming up with the OP you read (or are still reading) was a difficult process, and I hope it is clear enough to be thoroughly understood by people oth...
It seems to me Camus was trying to make that utterance's meaning ambiguous, and it comes across as pretentious. I would've just said: "Religion provid...
It isn't so much that I have trouble thinking about it, but rather that I don't possess the means to follow the process of discovery through to its en...
As I say in the OP, what makes one earth-like afterlife (even one you might call hellish) any more likely than another is how well it abides by the lo...
I know what a black legend is, and I used the term correctly. My point in bringing up the Pope is that you wouldn't assert that there is an equally li...
Wow. You really just said that. No one said that the lived experience of Catholics or Southern Europeans is invalid, but there is no evidence of a bla...
The more I think about what alan meant, the less ambiguous it becomes. He presents a ham-handed, but consistent dichotomy between Christianity and sec...
There are definitely more or less plausible interpretations of the bible, even if a lot of stuff can be justified. So, that is never a good point. Tha...
I think alan was not clear about what he was trying to say here. I can't read his mind, but I don't think he was saying that every Taliban member like...
Alan is clearly talking about those thought processes as determined by belief here, and if that is the case: Do we really need to understand the neuro...
I get that, I'm just pointing out that this thread has been thoroughly de-railed and that we should try to at least engage with the OP in some way. I ...
Yes, but anti-Catholicism, or any discrimination due to tribalism, is not the same as the kind of criticism in the OP. This is because, if you think t...
By evaluating whether or not Afterlife 1 is a better guess than Afterlife 2. Really that is all we can do - guess at whether or not our guesses are go...
No, the slavery scripture is not twisted. It literally says that slaves ought to obey their masters. You are also committing the no true Scotsman fall...
Yes, one random Christian guy fought against slavery a long time ago. I know you know, and you know everyone else who knows anything about this knows,...
I agree - we need to crush whoever initiates the robot apocalypse. Unfortunately, not every group of people working towards developing AIs at breaknec...
I appear to have misunderstood a lot of what you posted. Honestly, I agree with almost everything you are saying. Not even much room for discussion. Y...
I'm not saying that an earth-like afterlife is more likely because there are a lot of guesses, but rather that those guesses, if they stand to be true...
I don't quite agree that many moral philosophers would consider you moral for following just any self-imposed rule, if you are saying that. Otherwise ...
I am also arguing not that there is only one most likely afterlife based on the fact that earth-like afterlives can be more accurately predicted, but ...
By the way, I'm using the term "earthy" to mean "of or reflective of earthly qualities", and "earth-like" to denote an afterlife that is sufficiently ...
The point I was making was that given constraints, one guess about the afterlife could be more likely than another. If the afterlife is more earth-lik...
People don't try to make me feel better, so why should I toil to do so for other people? Philosophy isn't meant to comfort people. If someone wants a ...
This is my best attempt at defending something quite difficult to defend, it seems: First off, I don't see how you could support the assertion that et...
Why wouldn't there be brains in the afterlife? Maybe upon dying one's memories, for instance, are copied and stored on a computer that then encodes th...
I would drop this; the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, if you catch my drift. There are plenty of other places your posts might be appreciate...
You agree that when one dies, they either go to an afterlife or cease to exist, right? And also that we cannot evaluate the proposition 'there is an a...
Lol. When I actually take the time to decipher what you are saying, like I did with your latest post, I often find that you are saying something surpr...
That's actually good. Maybe you could point out what doesn't make sense to you? Agreed. I bypass this discussion, however, by stipulating in my argume...
You don't understand the OP, then. I guess I'll try to explain it, since I have nothing better to do. My argument results in the conclusion that if we...
No, did you even read the OP? I discuss the potential nature of the afterlife if it exists and how we might ascertain it. I don't expect anyone to arg...
Yes, it is speculation on the nature of something that we have no evidence for the existence of. But your idea of the afterlife is not supported by an...
Okay, I never disputed that this is possible, but my argument requires that the afterlife is time linear (I think), so that is what I'm discussing. We...
Minus the physics part I can relate. I know very little about physics. And I've certainly been doubted, so there's that. However, I'm not a published ...
Tipler appears to be a rather divisive figure. This sounds like someone trying to justify belief in an afterlife provided by God via science and philo...
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