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  1. serp777

    What's the justification for believing in the soul?

    its just the argument from ignorance--"We don't understand how our universe could exist given that we would expect matter and anti matter to cancel out, therefore the universe shouldn't exist!" Nope, the answer should be that we don't know until we have a theory of everything. Until then nothing...
  2. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    I would say you couldn't validate it and therefore you shouldn't believe it.
  3. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Your logic is simple as well as incredibly fallacious. It might benefit you to believe that little green men in tutus riding unicorns abducted the easter bunny, but that wouldn't give it the slightest bit of credence or confirm that it was true. Do you care about what's true or what will help...
  4. serp777

    Lila

    So i'm allowed to thread spam then? I'll just bring up random irrelevant nonsense, put it in a thread, and then just copy paste your argument of "well who are you to say what's gunk or not". if you look at the thread history he posts nearly 100-1000 times more than any other user. Its pretty...
  5. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    It seems to me that if you're doubting yourself and that you admit human fallibility, there's no reason you should accept divine revelations of the bible. I would actually consider this as a divine personal revelation. I mean but how do we prove that God was the cause of answering those...
  6. serp777

    Are people who claim to know God liars?

    yes and I reject absolute certainty altogether. Some things, like the laws of logic, and mundane things I accept out of practical necessity to a high degree of confidence. However, I'm sure even you'd agree that not all revelations and experiences should be trusted. I mean surely your logic...
  7. serp777

    What's the justification for believing in the soul?

    I've defined it more or less throughout this thread as follows--a supernatural entity that is separate, but has some connection to the brain. Substance dualism is how i've been implying it. Because if you're saying the soul isn't supernatural, then what justification do we have to call it a soul...
  8. serp777

    Problem of Evil Revisited

    Yes parents get judged all the time for their mistakes, particularly when their kids grow up to be delinquents. The blame almost exclusively goes towards the parents at one point or another--they'll say oh this kid didn't have the right upbringing, etc.
  9. serp777

    Problem of Evil Revisited

    That's not something I made up lol, that's a very common theological position. Do you not think that God is all knowing and exists outside of space and time? The bible clearly states he knows the beginning from the end. And the bible does heavily imply that God created the universe with...
  10. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    No its not just personal. If a God actually spoke to them than that means God is actually real, and we all share one reality. So its not just personal. Also why isn't alien experimentation of you possible in reality as you understand it? We know that humans have performed experiments on humans...
  11. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Thank you. But I can't tell you how many times people have responded to me "Well you can't trust any experience then", as if all personal experiences are on equal footing.
  12. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    You and many others have brought up this same strawman over and over again. My actual position is that there's a spectrum of confidence, but that i'm not actually certain about anything. And whats your position exactly? That all personal experience, no matter what it is, should just be accepted...
  13. serp777

    What's the justification for believing in the soul?

    Nothing in science is accepted as absolute certainty. Everything in science consists of theories and probabilistic models of varying confidence. Proof exists solely in the realm of mathematics. Ok, well I don't know how the scientist determined that so i'm highly doubtful. And what does the...
  14. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Personal revelation in the sense i'm using means that an external, supernatural entity is communicating with you or conveying some feeling whereby nobody else can confirm that it actually occurred.
  15. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    No, no, no. Wrong. That's not my logic. #1, i've never claimed that I do trust my senses with 100% certainty. My senses have been fooled before and maybe its the case that I am in fact in the matrix. I can't prove that im not. But i accept that they are generally reliable due to practical...
  16. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Exactly, there are an infinite number of sufficient explanations that could account for your personal revelations, because even if God does exists, that doesn't mean you aren't being tricked by Satan or experimented upon. It also assumes that the person is an infallible little God detector who...
  17. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Yes and my criticism of that would be to ask how you determined you weren't being tricked by satan or experimented on by aliens. It sure seems like circular reasoning used to assume the thing that the personal revelation is telling you is true. Even if a God exists you can't rational justify...
  18. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    How did you determine that? You think being contacted by the most powerful being in the universe via supernatural means should be classified as closer to getting a pet dog? First of all aliens are within the realm of possibility. We have no idea if there's a being outside of reality from a...
  19. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Thats what's called a strawman argument. People are warranted in trusting themselves, generally speaking, for mundane things that are within the bounds of reality or occur frequently. Someone trusting that they did in fact get a pet dog is a massively different claim than saying aliens abducted...
  20. serp777

    Nobody should believe their alleged divine personal revelations

    Yes of course i decided to just include personal revelations for this thread because people often come back to: "Well I had a personal revelation and that's how I know", as if its a knockdown argument. They say it shouldn't be justification for others, but if it can't be justification for others...
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