RE: On the lunacy of free will
October 12, 2021 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2021 at 10:55 am by Spongebob.)
(October 12, 2021 at 10:37 am)Ahriman Wrote:(October 12, 2021 at 10:23 am)Spongebob Wrote: Labels are a form of communication and can help understanding. You don't seem to mind labels when they suit your needs. And how do you know I'm "hung up" on labels? What I have done is ask you questions which you have most often ignored or dodged. There appears to be nothing honest about you.Come off it. I'm not a politician. I'm being as honest as I can be while not falling into the "black and white" trap, because many things in life, are not black and white. Even if I am a pagan, which I suppose I could be, that doesn't automatically mean I subscribe to every single paganistic belief necessarily.
If you were an honest person you wouldn't dodge honest questions. And no one is setting any "traps" for you.
I don't care if you are pagan and I don't subscribe to any false dichotomy fallacies. Most subjects are more nuanced than that, so stop using that as an excuse.
What you do is throw up tons of generalizations, contradictions and tons and tons of fallacies and then pretend that you know everything. Not a good recipe for credibility. If you want to be taken seriously, you will stop this idiocy and be specific, honest and stop the use of fallacies. If you don't mind being considered an idiot and a troll, then carry on. Your credibility here couldn't get much lower if you try. Right now absolutely no one here takes you seriously.
(October 12, 2021 at 10:46 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Pascal’s wager.
It is more complicated than that. Some religions share the same god: judaism, christianity, islam, mormonism
So, you have to choose the right religion. The modern day jew, christian, islam, mormon might say it doesn’t matter which of these 4 religions you choose but that’s bc they don’t want to get into an argument. They don’t want a gun fight.
In the old days, these groups were very much willing to kill each other over their religion.
Then, you have to choose the right sect since each of these religions are fragmented.
Christianity has 37,000 sects.
Islam seems to have 51. (If you are going to count each mosque as separate like in the case of christianity, then I’m sure you’ll reach some high number).
Mormonism has 4.
I don’t know about judaism.
I’ve heard christians say countless of times “beware of wolfs in sheep’s clothing” when they refer to islam or mormonism. <--- Such people are more willing to tell you what they really think about the other religions.
This is certainly all true. I was looking for brevity, but the deeper you go the more contradictions you find. Even within one single sect of Christianity, the act of being "saved" isn't an exact science; more like guessing.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller