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  1. Hermit Philosopher

    AGI creeping in the back door?

    Yet, if there’s no personnel at the other end of a phone line, none to open your letters, no fax number or fax-machine in their office and their files on you are all digital and saved on their cloud; your old gadgets won’t help you access much. Anyhow, I’m sure you get my point: once new...
  2. Hermit Philosopher

    AGI creeping in the back door?

    Which obviously means losing access to bank accounts, health records, contracts, communication with suppliers, governments, and most personal payment methods in general, to mention a few rather vital things.
  3. Hermit Philosopher

    Have You Noticed This?

    Well, no. That sounds to me like something else, rather. Possibly arrogance and/or blind conviction. Doubt is part of faith, but in such moments when a greater sense of faith is sought, you choose to trust fully in that which you believe, often because at that certain point, you need to...
  4. Hermit Philosopher

    AGI creeping in the back door?

    Except, I’m sure similar was said about the Internet and some 25 years later, it is obvious to most that if we were to do that now, we’d all be pretty buggered, no?
  5. Hermit Philosopher

    Argue About Michael Jackson - Here's Yer Thread

    Hah, has it many followers? ;)
  6. Hermit Philosopher

    Trinity Confusion

    Oh dear
  7. Hermit Philosopher

    Trinity Confusion

    I mean that the Son showed a perspective, yes. That is what the trinity is: 3 perspectives in God.
  8. Hermit Philosopher

    Trinity Confusion

    I can’t help but feel that we’re going round in circles @Soapy. You must apply the trinity-view for it to make sense; there is little point in you trying to understand it otherwise. God incarnated as the Son, in the form of Christ… as Christ, God experienced (not just witnessed) human sin...
  9. Hermit Philosopher

    Argue About Michael Jackson - Here's Yer Thread

    He’s dead.
  10. Hermit Philosopher

    Trinity Confusion

    Yes: either a) the speaker is speaking incoherently or b) you have misunderstood the premises that the speaker holds and therefor you cannot accurately understand what the speaker is saying. My guess -not just in regards to yourself or to this scenario, but in most situations where we think...
  11. Hermit Philosopher

    What is the relationship of philosophy to religion?

    There are philosophical religious people and religious philosophers, but religion and philosophy are not interdependent. There is the field of philosophy of religion and there is theology, of course. I’d say that metaphysics, epistemology and ethics are field of philosophy that share...
  12. Hermit Philosopher

    What are the differences between ‘God’ and ‘Jesus Christ’?

    Dear @Soapy The difference is that, while God has [“live” and direct access to] the perspective of the Son [Christ] and of the Father and of the Holy Spirit; The Son [Christ] only has [“live” and direct access to] his own, limited perspective (much like Man, but different - we’ll get to...
  13. Hermit Philosopher

    How Often Do You Think About God?

    Unless worldliness grabs hold of my full attention by some super-stressful event; I think about God always. And even in times of being preoccupied with the mundane; once I get a chance to pause, I usually think: “what would Christ do if faced with this challenge?” And then, I try my best to...
  14. Hermit Philosopher

    Is it unethical to coerce a child into believing a lie?

    There is not 1 answer to that question, because it very much depends on: • What the subject is • What your lie is • What your truth is • Which of those you potentially think is more harmful to the child at that point • How you phrase whatever it is that you choose to tell the child • If you...
  15. Hermit Philosopher

    Christians: am I saved? (eternal salvation)

    It is likely that: • If you genuinely understand the harm that you have contributed onto others and genuinely repent the perspective you had when you caused/contributed to those harms; • If you genuinely have cast aside the mindset which led you to contribute to the harming of others and...
  16. Hermit Philosopher

    Misalignment and Disunity

    I like it! I call it trust. I trust that “divine” will -which I consider to be accessible to mankind- shall be understood by those who seek to find it and I have faith in that “divine” will, when understood, does make good of us and leads us to a life in harmony with selves and others...
  17. Hermit Philosopher

    Misalignment and Disunity

    Ah! Thanks for clarifying. This makes different sense to me now. Very interesting. I shall need to reread your comments and see what I make of them in light of this idea! Spontaneously though: unless you’re a solipsist; we’d now be talking about realities in plural, as we do not have one...
  18. Hermit Philosopher

    Misalignment and Disunity

    I feel that it is difficult to comment meaningfully on something quite so vague. Could you describe what it is that you have concluded to be [an/the] “ultimate reality”? And what about that “ultimate reality” it is that you feel misaligned with… Also, what sort of “value” is it that you would...
  19. Hermit Philosopher

    Misalignment and Disunity

    I would say that feeling misaligned with the current state of things is a blessed trait of sanity! Surely, you’d not wish to feel “in alignment” with the madness that we live in? Yet, whether you take a stand for/against things or not, you are regardless very much inevitably united with...
  20. Hermit Philosopher

    What is the role of the Spirit of God (The Holy Spirit) in Trinitarianism?

    I see! Yes, you are right in that the examples I gave were of the Holy Spirit’s role in relation to man only. And that is because, although man -via the Holy Spirit- can grasp God’s perspective; man is never God. I can only address your question about the Holy Spirit’s role in relation to...
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