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Why did God create us
Sorry, I privilege standards of justifications higher than "well, vibes say something exist." because vibes can be used to justify anything. Also, please quote me if you are trying to respond to me. Makes it easier to respond. And you can just admit that you claim to have special reflective...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #75
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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World oil woes
Considering that the median person who uses an automobile tends to be richer than most of the world on a global scale, that automobiles are one of the most significant contributors to climate change, and any increase in the price of gas is a natural carbon tax that disincentivizes consumption of...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #3
- Forum: Liberal Only
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Why did God create us
Alright man, if you say so. You are clearly making phenomenological claims about our experience, and the fact that I disagree with your claims seems to imply that it isn't as self-evident upon reflection that these claims constitute the foundation of our experience. But if you feel like you are...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #73
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Who Is Childfree or Has Concerns About Having Their Own Children?
It's a complicated thing for me (though I'm no where near the time in my life where I'd be considering having children, God no.) because of the fact that as, Schopenhauer puts it, if reason had true recognition of the suffering of the world, it would rationally not bring about children into...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #10
- Forum: General Debates
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Why did God create us
My man I study academic philosophy and you don't know what sophistry is. Have you actually perused the evil daemon thought-experiment in Descartes' Meditations? Or literally anything in the early modern literature responding to it? Have you even read the basic critique that followed from the...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #70
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
And I am pointing out that it isn't! Neither is "I think therefore I am"! Descartes' famous saying was criticized for presuming that the thinking entity was a propositional subject "I" from the get-go! Otherwise thinkers like Hume or Spinoza wouldn't attempt to solve the problem of skepticism...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #66
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
Actually I and you are saying the same thing, that the concept of nothing is parasitic on the concept of something, which is why I am saying that your claim that there needs to be a mysterious source before the world (i.e. something which all cognition is intentionally oriented towards as...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #63
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I don't want to continue on this line because self-identification is self-identification (though honestly I don't see much that could link you to the Advaitin tradition's ontology), but you definitely ought to check out Jayarasi's Tattvopaplavasimha. Edit: Also fwiw the wikipedia pages on...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #61
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I'm not going to answer the rest of this, because its an oddly confused argument (in fact, a lack of it) that would require an incredibly long comment to unpack, but your claim that human phenomenology requires a concept of "something" is expressly what I called tautological. Of course human...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #57
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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What/who is your God?
Also not trivially obvious that the universe is infinite, considering we only can posit empirical proof for the observable universe with light. And I think the sense in which physicists posit the term "infinite" is somewhat more akin to what Hegel would call bad infinity, an infinity of...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #8
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I don't know if its fruitful to attribute views to Advaitin Vedanta when Sankara's fundamental ontological ground is pure being whereas your ontological ground is something that is other than pure being i.e. a materialist ontology. Also, there's non-dualist traditions that are not Vedantin cf...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #55
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I'm sorry, I don't see how this is positing anything close to a Vedantic ontology? All objects including material objects are abstract objects in Advaitin vedanta. Vyavaharika is explicitly empirical, intersubjective reality that is discovered and confirmed through the use of the perception and...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #53
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
But the Vedantin (and as I can see, yours) claim is that the perceptual world is an illusion, an ontological degradation that needs to be sublated into a higher form. The distinction between macro and micro would be similarly not perspicacious because its exactly the sort of indeterminacy that...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #50
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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What/who is your God?
Trivially speaking, I am a Christian of the Nicaean variety, so my God is the one contained within the orthodox creedal interpretations of the Bible as determined by the councils recognized by the Anglican Communion. Though I think that's not a very satisfying answer to a person who is not a...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #6
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
Surely this is a philosophical claim that's different from saying QM says causality isn't real, no? Because the latter claim would require reconciling with general relativity, which has an extremely strong and deterministic notion of causality in the form of light cones.- Notthedarkweb
- Post #48
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I don't think so. Is the point here that you are denying the existence of causality? Because the philosophical arguments in favour of it are pretty strong, even if its only a transcendentally ideal category of pure reason a la Kant. After all, in our ordinary perceptual experience, we do seem to...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #46
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I think you are misunderstanding what I'm trying to say. QM makes theses about possible causal chains from the perspective of the observer. It's probabilistic indeterminism need not necessarily apply to already existing events that have occurred before the present moment in time since those are...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #44
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I mean, neither did Sriharsa (or even Sankara). That'd be physically impossible. The things that they were concerned with are way different from what contemporary science is concerned with. And the Nyaya cosmoteleological argument, even if I don't particularly find it convincing, doesn't really...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #42
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
What book is this? I searched it in my New Oxford Annotated Bible too and I didn't find these passages, even in the apocrypha.- Notthedarkweb
- Post #33
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Why did God create us
I'm not sure if there's any need to posit an entity outside the world (which constitutes the absolute horizon of our phenomenological experience either way)? Like, why does it need to be a mystery? Why can't it just be a brute fact? After all, what's the counter-factual to the world existing as...- Notthedarkweb
- Post #31
- Forum: General Religious Debates