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RE: Free will
May 11, 2016 at 8:10 pm
(May 11, 2016 at 7:52 pm)IATIA Wrote: (May 7, 2016 at 8:20 am)Shadow_Man Wrote: God is not a terrorist.
Rather god is worse than any terrorist. "Love me and worship me or BURN IN HELL forever" and relative to the eternal realm of all space-time, we get 1-0.999... seconds to make this choice. What part of that is not terrorism?
Well you do portray a view of God. I would say that the perspective is a bit skewed. Imagine viewing it all from his perspective instead of ours.
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RE: Free will
May 11, 2016 at 8:17 pm
From god's point of view.
"Look at those dumb fucks down there. They'll just believe any stupid shit. Why would they think I need their worship? They're nothing but an ant farm at best. Pfffft! Come on, let's go. Next round's on you, right?"
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RE: Free will
May 11, 2016 at 9:09 pm
(May 11, 2016 at 8:10 pm)chrisdubbya Wrote: Well you do portray a view of God. I would say that the perspective is a bit skewed. Imagine viewing it all from his perspective instead of ours.
If only someone could explain how we might do that, and what a gods perspective would look like...huh?
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RE: Free will
May 11, 2016 at 11:03 pm
(May 11, 2016 at 8:10 pm)chrisdubbya Wrote: (May 11, 2016 at 7:52 pm)IATIA Wrote: Rather god is worse than any terrorist. "Love me and worship me or BURN IN HELL forever" and relative to the eternal realm of all space-time, we get 1-0.999... seconds to make this choice. What part of that is not terrorism?
Well you do portray a view of God. I would say that the perspective is a bit skewed. Imagine viewing it all from his perspective instead of ours.
That is literally how god is portrayed in the bible and god of the bible and jesus are not all loving at all. There is no fluffy bunny i love you all jesus not at all.
god and jesus in the bible are not nice characters at all. Not nice is probably not even a good description of how they really are at all.
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RE: Free will
May 11, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Apparently CW is just a hit and run.
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RE: Free will
May 12, 2016 at 4:13 am
(May 11, 2016 at 8:10 pm)chrisdubbya Wrote: (May 11, 2016 at 7:52 pm)IATIA Wrote: Rather god is worse than any terrorist. "Love me and worship me or BURN IN HELL forever" and relative to the eternal realm of all space-time, we get 1-0.999... seconds to make this choice. What part of that is not terrorism?
Well you do portray a view of God. I would say that the perspective is a bit skewed. Imagine viewing it all from his perspective instead of ours.
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RE: Free will
May 12, 2016 at 7:45 pm
Rhythm,
Rhythm Wrote:@shadow. If the future can be known, then the future is set. Your future "choices" - are set. Nothing between this moment and those moments can change the outcomes, or your mind.
10 minutes from now, you will be presented with two options. Option A, and Option B. I have foreknowledge of the result of this scenario. You will choose B. If I actually possess such knowledge, you must..in ten minutes, "choose" b, and you have absolutely no leverage in the matter. You will not and -could not- "choose a" - this is a requirement of the truth of my claim to foreknowledge (rather than an educated guess, for example).
If that relationship between claims and subjects and future states seems, to you, a description of a "choice" or being able to "choose"...then perhaps we're simply not talking about the same thing when we use the word.
You have merely re-stated the claim of the OP, and I have addressed that argument multiple times within this thread. Please see posts #41, 58, 66, 69, and 81.
I actually responded to you personally in post #41 about this same topic, but you may not have been alerted because my response to you was concatenated with my response to mh.brewer by the forum software. The software apparently thought I was a spambot. If you read back through those posts, maybe you will think so, too.
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RE: Free will
May 12, 2016 at 7:55 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2016 at 8:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Thanks for the heads up - I did miss your post. Honestly, you haven't changed much between our positions at this point. You're still denying what must be true of a claim to foreknowledge in order to maintain a claim to free will.... and I still don't think we're talking about the same thing when we use words like choice or free will.
The anecdote regarding your -post- event knowledge of a random dice roll and how that speaks to -fore-knowledge was particularly inept - if you care about that sort of shit, lol.
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RE: Free will
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RE: Free will
May 13, 2016 at 8:31 pm
SO i will just say this SM
is god all knowing yes or no i don't need a long witted talk or some half backed conclusion just a simple yes or no.
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