RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 10, 2021 at 9:57 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2021 at 10:11 pm by Astreja.)
(August 10, 2021 at 3:54 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: I asked about whether you have some good objective (not personal) grounds to say the probability of an afterlife existing is close to 0%, not about your personal beliefs - I already know you don't believe in anything non-empirical.
Okay, then - I see no objective (not personal) evidence that such a thing as an afterlife exists, or even that such a thing could exist. That in itself is more than enough to power my disbelief. Life is much too short to play "what-if" games with every untestable hypothesis that someone dreams up.
Quote:Any assertion you can't rule out is a possible assertion.
Like the invisible dragon sitting in your living room, for instance?

Quote:Because your standards are built on a logical fallacy, lack of data about X = nonexistence of X. This is completely false, argument from ignorance.
Klorophyll, it's becoming increasingly obvious to me why your posts get such a bad reception around here. You insist upon confounding personal beliefs (which are by nature subjective) with objective facts, hopping from one foot from another in your Logical Fallacy Faerie costume and resorting to special pleading whenever we ask that you abide by the same standards that you demand of us.
I know that you have beliefs, beliefs that are extremely important to you. At least have the self-awareness to recognize that other people have excellent reasons for not believing the same things that you do. If you can't accept that, that's your loss rather than ours.
ETA: Your equation is also wrong. I didn't say that X didn't exist; I said that I did not believe that X existed. There's a huge difference between those two positions, and in that context your accusation of a logical fallacy is groundless.