Actually my first taste of a scallop was neither conscious nor deliberate. It was accidental and unthinking.
Except I WASN’T talking about your “first taste of a scallop”, you followed the same trend as A Vestigial Mode and many others here. Just like A Vestigial Mode, you misunderstood what I said and blew everything completely out of proportion [along with omitting of key information (like the examples of guilt being a state of an individual as an analogy to weather being a state of atmosphere, evolutionary processes required for fear effect] and also you are making up lies about me based on distorted account of my true statements.
I wasn’t referring to your “first taste of a scallop” there, I was simply saying that your LOVE for scallop is a habitualized positive associations [feeling of love] between the taste of scallop and what that food does for you [brings you pleasure]. And this is formed through continuous deliberate, conscious efforts, just like emotions such as fear came through deliberate, conscious adaptions of our forefathers in response to dangers [and we inherited it via evolutionary processes]. You conveniently omitted out my point about fear effect, guilt effect among MANY others throughout your posts because that’ll destroy your entire false narrative about me, my true points and my true position.
Besides, tell me something, how can you perform an action like putting something in your mouth and taste it without thinking? How can you do something without thinking about it when thinking is actually REQUIRED for doing something in the first place? Did someone fed it to you?
Gremlins are sentient, conscious, focused, perceptive, intelligent, accurate, and creative agents. So, by your reasoning they must exist, and they must be responsible from broken toasters.
1. If my reasoning had the inherent assumption that gremlins as being of “sentient, conscious […] intelligent” nature, why the hell did you think I gave different [probability of being true] values to “sentient, conscious […] intelligent agents” and “gremblin”? NO, my reasoning doesn’t agree that gremblins are like that, or you would have gotten the same probability. They may be “sentient, conscious, intelligent agent” in their respective fictional universe, pretty much like my dream self is also a sentient, conscious agent in my dream world. But neither gremlins nor my dream self is either sentient or conscious in reality. The same is not true IF the possibility of a creator OF REAL WORLD is actually true, for in this scenario, God is Influencing the real world one way or another, not gremlins.
2. Not all sentient, conscious, intelligent agents are necessarily always gremlins, gods [whether it’s specific gods and/or god in general]. I even talked about other sentient, conscious, intelligent agents, humans. And also, not all sentient, conscious, intelligent humans are necessarily Spartans, drivers [whether it’s a specific driver like Michael Schumacher or drivers in general]. Your specific examples aren’t necessarily the correct instances of my general types.
3. The problem I see is, you are comparing specific instances to general equivalences. That is not a valid approach.
Think about it this way --- If there truly is a breathing, eating, growing, moving, reproducing entity that have senses is moving somewhere out of there in a far galaxy, and we can somehow observe this phenomena. Suppose I infer “well, this entity breathes, eats, grows, moves etc., there must exist a living being out there, and it is responsible for that movements.” and you counter this by saying “X-men breathes, eats, grows, moves etc. So, by your reasoning they must exist [out there in that part of galaxy], and X-men must be responsible for those movement.” That is no way a proper example from your behalf, using specific example as an analogy to general equivalence I am doing.
I am simply saying that if there truly is a sentient, conscious, focused, perceptive, intelligent, accurate, and creative agent that is running and keeping the order in the universe, then this entity can be generally the same as God and should be regarded as such, EVEN if this entity is the source energy all around us [a general instance] that is somehow sentient, conscious etc. I wasn’t talking about any specific entities like specific Gods in different religions, rather just a general equivalent of God.
How am I wrong when text-book definition of weather corresponds with everything I said about definition of whether in context of the point I was making? This is the textbook definition of weather --- “
Weather is the state of the
atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or
cloudy.”
If that were true then we would be able to predict the weather for the whole planet. And for other planets.
What does our inability to predict weather with pin-point accuracy and consistency has anything to do with what weather actually is? Pretty much like what does our inability to predict the moods of people of the whole planet with pin-point accuracy and consistency has anything to do with the truth we know about what human mood actually is?
Obviously, since we do not know all of the factors for weather,
Jezerezeh Elim, the Stormfather is the cause for weather. This is the reasoning that you use for the universe being an artifact of your Creator.
1. Factors that judge how the weather will be IS NOT THE SAME AS what the weather itself is.
2. Once again, no. This is not the reasoning I am using. For starters, there is no equivalence between specific instances of Gods like Jezerezeh Elim and a general God. Just because I think a living being [general example] have created Religious Forums, doesn’t necessarily mean I think that Sunstone, a staff member and a premium member of Religious Forums, have created Religious Forums. That’s absurd. Just because I believe earliest member of Religious Forum is a creator of Religious Forum, doesn’t necessarily mean that I think Shadow Wolf, one of the early members, had created Religious Forums. Just because I think an early human being has invented wheel, doesn’t necessarily mean that Adam has created wheel. So, your example of Jezerezeh Elim as God, Gremlin and other specific-examples as “sentient, conscious, intelligent agent” is not the valid example of “sentient, conscious, intelligent agent” when taken in lights of general-types what I am talking about.
3. Before I talk about other things, I’d love to call you out on that “my Creator” thing you are falsely attributing to me. You see, this is just another example of you using false specific example [“my Creator”] to general view of God [for me and others who believes in Panentheism]. I don’t have any beliefs about the nature of God as of yet. So, this is another lie you made about me because there is no such thing as “my Creator” for me when I talk about God, rather I feel that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, that THAT THERE IS NO GOD but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe, also extends beyond.
4. Erm … no. Just like A Vestigial Mode, you misunderstood what I said and blew everything completely out of proportion [along with omitting of key information (like the examples of guilt being a state of an individual as an analogy to weather being a state of atmosphere, evolutionary processes required for fear effect] and also you are making up lies about me based on distorted account of my true statements. The reasoning I use is this --- Based on my personal experiences, and based on what we see and observe in our daily life ALONG with the fact that there exists highly-sophisticated and complex systems [and/or effects and/or anything] nigh-impossible without some sentient, conscious, focused, perceptive, intelligent, accurate, creative agent(s)/efforts, it is far likelier than not that the universe is governed by BOTH, unchanging collection of complex laws AS WELL AS conscious, deliberate efforts and/or agent(s).
No. My statement makes it sound like you are saying that because we don't know why the universe is complex and mysterious, that our ignorance justifies the assertion that the universe was created. Which is what you are saying.
And which is why your statement is false, because I never said anything that. On the contrary, I advised NOT to jump to conclusions about matters we know little-to-no about, like in post #122. Let me quote myself --- “Whether Elvis is alive or not, or whether black cats really bring bad luck, can be scientifically assessed and determined, the same cannot be done with the case about whether there is a creator or not. I don't think it's wise to jump to conclusions with little-to-no information about something.”
Because of you two and the massive obfuscation you created, it took ages for me to come back right on the track of my position, and state my position AGAIN after reading my old post AGAIN to show my original points AGAIN this time WITH PROOFS thanks to the misleading due to your lies and deceptions.