RE: How far reaching are God's powers?
November 12, 2020 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2020 at 6:37 pm by Sal.)
I try, implicit bias/beliefs notwithstanding, to have exactly zero (0) unfalsifiable beliefs, but without discounting them, just being aware of them is enough.
I know full well this is practically impossible, because you have to go through a single day with a lot of assumptions of other people's behavior.
As a common instance in my day-to-day interaction with people in my ... stuff, I always start out with a working assumption that when another person speaks to me, I assume they're telling the truth regardless what they say. This comes with three massive assumptions about myself, as well, from the get go:
1) My senses are accurately conveying an outside reality, as per the provisional configuration of the senses (not just the 5 main senses). As an instance of this provisional configuration for the EM field (light, duh), are the photoreceptor cells in my eyeballs are able, in unison, to accurately display what I'm seeing around the 700 nm ("red") - 350 nm ("blue") wavelengths. Yes, I am that weird. Although a lot of people take this for granted.
2) My Consciousness is able to, accounting for the known "software bugs"/disabilities/physical restrictions in my cognitive abilities, such as optical/auditory/Somatosensory system (i.e. "touch")/ ... basically the entire sensory nervous system do work as intended from 1).
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3) Given 1) and 2) that I am able to apply my Experience (through the senses) and reasoning abilities present in my Consciousness to make an provisional model of this Reality, to the best of my ability. And it is checked, re-checked and "improved" upon (hopefully without regressions, although re-checks might do that to any assumption, so I am (well, no one is, AFAIK) never 100% right about anything. Although, like any good model, it has to have that main caveat, how can I disprove ... whatever? Which is the essence of falsifiability. Thanks, Karl Popper, you were the Champ.
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I know this sounds wishy-washy to a lot of people (a lot of individuals have told me as-much to that effect), and that it is a way of thinking and conceiving of the world too many people have a hard time understanding and, sorry to say, accepting. My main focus in life, ever since year 2008, has been mental health awareness and the propagation of cognitive tools to that effect.
Too much shit is going on in people's lives that constantly disrupt this ... stuff, and one of the main one's is undeniable the function of faith™.
I put him on ignore after reading 2 of his outbursts. CBA, TBH.
I know full well this is practically impossible, because you have to go through a single day with a lot of assumptions of other people's behavior.
As a common instance in my day-to-day interaction with people in my ... stuff, I always start out with a working assumption that when another person speaks to me, I assume they're telling the truth regardless what they say. This comes with three massive assumptions about myself, as well, from the get go:
1) My senses are accurately conveying an outside reality, as per the provisional configuration of the senses (not just the 5 main senses). As an instance of this provisional configuration for the EM field (light, duh), are the photoreceptor cells in my eyeballs are able, in unison, to accurately display what I'm seeing around the 700 nm ("red") - 350 nm ("blue") wavelengths. Yes, I am that weird. Although a lot of people take this for granted.
2) My Consciousness is able to, accounting for the known "software bugs"/disabilities/physical restrictions in my cognitive abilities, such as optical/auditory/Somatosensory system (i.e. "touch")/ ... basically the entire sensory nervous system do work as intended from 1).
- and most importantly -
3) Given 1) and 2) that I am able to apply my Experience (through the senses) and reasoning abilities present in my Consciousness to make an provisional model of this Reality, to the best of my ability. And it is checked, re-checked and "improved" upon (hopefully without regressions, although re-checks might do that to any assumption, so I am (well, no one is, AFAIK) never 100% right about anything. Although, like any good model, it has to have that main caveat, how can I disprove ... whatever? Which is the essence of falsifiability. Thanks, Karl Popper, you were the Champ.
Quote:These factors combined to make Popper take falsifiability as his criterion for demarcating science from non-science: if a theory is incompatible with possible empirical observations it is scientific; conversely, a theory which is compatible with all such observations, either because, as in the case of Marxism, it has been modified solely to accommodate such observations, or because, as in the case of psychoanalytic theories, it is consistent with all possible observations, is unscientific. For Popper, however, to assert that a theory is unscientific, is not necessarily to hold that it is unenlightening, still less that it is meaningless, for it sometimes happens that a theory which is unscientific (because it is unfalsifiable) at a given time may become falsifiable, and thus scientific, with the development of technology, or with the further articulation and refinement of the theory. Further, even purely mythogenic explanations have performed a valuable function in the past in expediting our understanding of the nature of reality.[source]
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I know this sounds wishy-washy to a lot of people (a lot of individuals have told me as-much to that effect), and that it is a way of thinking and conceiving of the world too many people have a hard time understanding and, sorry to say, accepting. My main focus in life, ever since year 2008, has been mental health awareness and the propagation of cognitive tools to that effect.
Too much shit is going on in people's lives that constantly disrupt this ... stuff, and one of the main one's is undeniable the function of faith™.
(November 12, 2020 at 6:10 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(November 12, 2020 at 5:02 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: Blah blah ... "The deaths of children may be a terrible and tragic thing, but they're necessary" ... blah blah blah
And I say that your theology is repulsive.
I put him on ignore after reading 2 of his outbursts. CBA, TBH.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman