Have you ever actually heard an response that made you stop and think?

[Excited Penguin]

I know you didn't ask me but in case you don't know already EP, I think deism is completely unreasonable... just more probable than personal gods which are absolutely ridiculous and unrealistic on a cartoon level.

I'd say the probability of deistic gods are still next to nothing. Just less ridiculous and more probable.

I mean, any kind of supernatural deity being at the very beginning of existence sounds very absurd to me. The universe goes from the simple to the more complex. Even a non-personal deity that just creates the universe and does fuck all sounds very ridiculous to me. Just less ridiculous and improbable on the cartoonish level that personal theistic  gods are.

What d'you reckon?

Oh and EP please consider my post to you entirely impersonal. I can do impersonal with you. I'm good at impersonal when I try to be impersonal. I don't want to stop discussing stuff on AF with you just because we're not exactly friends right now (biggest understatement of my life... you'd be my enemy if I actually had enemies). And I was wrong to ever think me and you were alike, at least in personality or character. We're exact opposites IMO.

I'll ignore the last part of your post. That was just awkward and unnecessary. If you wish to be impersonal, stop being personal then.

I agree with your opinion, ofc. Thank you for your reply. Exactly what I wanted to hear.

[Edwardo Piet]

Okay I just hope no one gets the wrong idea and thinks it's ever personal between us if I stop being personal and we simply agree a lot.

Hell, we disagree on plenty too so yeah....... NO SHIPPING THE PENGUIN AND THE TURTLE.

I have to guess about social awkwardness, I think. I like to ask if I'm bothering people.

Yes I can stop being personal about you I just don't want to be associated with you

[Thumpalumpacus]

Deism, when I first heard of it as a boy. I still think it's the most reasonable possibility (however remote) for any deity.

Do you think it is reasonable at all by itself, or do you merely think it is more reasonable than other kinds of belief in a God because of the latter's abundance of unprovable claims by comparison?

No, I think deism is unreasonable -- just less-so than other conceptions of god(s), to me.