(July 23, 2025 at 10:57 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I've been looking for some simple recipes for new things to make for supper.  I'd like to point out that a recipe with 14 ingredients is a bit beyond what I consider "simple".

Grilled cheese. Easy peasy.

(July 20, 2025 at 10:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(July 20, 2025 at 9:43 pm)Rizen Wrote: Being healthy is a lot of work. Yesterday I literally worked out so hard that I puked and today I'm eating a salad for dinner. It feels like it's so easy to gain weight yet so hard to lose it.

I wish I had the same problem.  Due to an illness, I lost a LOT of weight.  As in, I am considered underweight now.  Since the illness also tanked my appetite, I can't seem to gain any back.  Yet my newsfeed is filled with the new weight loss drugs.  Try to find weight gain help and even my doctor doesn't know what to tell me.  I have spent thousands of $$$ on high calorie, high protein drinks and snacks and still don't tip the scale at 100 pounds.  I had no idea that gaining weight would be such a challenge.

(July 24, 2025 at 8:52 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(July 24, 2025 at 5:50 pm)Rizen Wrote: I've got to stop looking at the news. I'm having panic attacks and not getting any work done :[

I look at it online, periodically. I do NOT need a reprise of their sound bites every half hour. Most shit doesn't make the news the next day. Staring at the news on TV is depressing my wife; she told me that. There's an easy solution.

You're lucky to have found love. I'm on three dating sites and every day the world beats into my brain that there aren't many people like me. It's hard to be an ultra-liberal, autistic, atheist. Very few women can stand any one of those categories.

(July 24, 2025 at 9:27 pm)Rizen Wrote:

(July 20, 2025 at 10:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I wish I had the same problem.  Due to an illness, I lost a LOT of weight.  As in, I am considered underweight now.  Since the illness also tanked my appetite, I can't seem to gain any back.  Yet my newsfeed is filled with the new weight loss drugs.  Try to find weight gain help and even my doctor doesn't know what to tell me.  I have spent thousands of $$$ on high calorie, high protein drinks and snacks and still don't tip the scale at 100 pounds.  I had no idea that gaining weight would be such a challenge.

(July 24, 2025 at 8:52 pm)Fireball Wrote: I look at it online, periodically. I do NOT need a reprise of their sound bites every half hour. Most shit doesn't make the news the next day. Staring at the news on TV is depressing my wife; she told me that. There's an easy solution.

You're lucky to have found love. I'm on three dating sites and every day the world beats into my brain that there aren't many people like me. It's hard to be an ultra-liberal, autistic, atheist. Very few women can stand any one of those categories.

Kick it old school. Leave off the dating sites and go to bars. You'll meet a better class of people.

Boru

Quote:Linville endorses Plantinga’s criteria for warranted belief, which says that “a belief is warranted just in case it is the product of a belief-producing mechanism that is truth-aimed and functioning properly in the environment for which it was designed.” Linville says that if God exists, then our moral beliefs meet these criteria because then “human moral faculties are designed [by God] to guide human conduct in light of moral truth.” On the other hand, if naturalism is true, then Linville argues that we have no reason to think that our moral beliefs are the result of a truth-aimed mechanism, and therefore naturalism “presents an undercutting defeater for our moral beliefs taken as a whole.” If Linville is correct, then if God exists, then belief in moral realism is warranted. Conversely, if naturalism is true, then belief in moral realism is not warranted.

This conclusion is similar to Plantinga’s conclusion that basic belief in God can be warranted, if there is a God who endowed us with an immediate awareness of His existence. Because this conclusion is conditional, one cannot know whether their noninferential belief in God is warranted unless they also know that God exists. As philosopher Herman Philipse writes, people who are unsure whether they should believe in God “cannot reassure themselves that their beliefs may be warranted even if they have no arguments to support them. For their beliefs may be warranted in the basic way only if God exists, and that was precisely what they were calling into question.” Anthony Kenny makes the similar point: “The doubting believer in God cannot reassure himself that his belief is warranted; for only if there is a God is his belief warranted, and that is what he was beginning to doubt.” Likewise, Keith Parsons explains, “[Plantinga] argues that theistic belief is very likely warranted and properly basic, in the externalist sense, but only if theism is in fact true. This means that believers are in no position to argue that their belief in God is warrant basic unless they can adduce reasons, arguments, or evidence for the existence of God.”

Review of The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology || The Moral Argument

^If I understand this correctly (and I confess to not having read the linked article), then he's saying that it's ok to believe in God if you believe God exists. 

I'm good with that.

Boru

(Today at 5:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^If I understand this correctly (and I confess to not having read the linked article), then he's saying that it's ok to believe in God if you believe God exists. 

I'm good with that.

Boru

Plantinga's argument is that it's reasonable to consider a self-authenticating witness of the holy spirit, a sensus divinitatus, is properly basic and therefore needing no justification, if and only if the mind/brain is doing what it was designed to do. That a healthy mind is designed to detect God assumes that there is a God to do such designing, which basically is what we need a self-authenticating witness to determine in the first place. So Plantinga's reformed epistemology becomes a very literal Munchausien lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps. The short version is that using reformed epistemology to argue that such things can evidence the existence of God is cracked and suffers from a vicious circularity.