Random Thoughts

[Jackalope]

I've been looking for some simple recipes for new things to make for supper.  I'd like to point out that a recipe with 14 ingredients is a bit beyond what I consider "simple".

Grilled cheese. Easy peasy.

[Rizen]

Being healthy is a lot of work. Yesterday I literally worked out so hard that I puked and today I'm eating a salad for dinner. It feels like it's so easy to gain weight yet so hard to lose it.

I wish I had the same problem.  Due to an illness, I lost a LOT of weight.  As in, I am considered underweight now.  Since the illness also tanked my appetite, I can't seem to gain any back.  Yet my newsfeed is filled with the new weight loss drugs.  Try to find weight gain help and even my doctor doesn't know what to tell me.  I have spent thousands of $$$ on high calorie, high protein drinks and snacks and still don't tip the scale at 100 pounds.  I had no idea that gaining weight would be such a challenge.

I've got to stop looking at the news. I'm having panic attacks and not getting any work done :[

I look at it online, periodically. I do NOT need a reprise of their sound bites every half hour. Most shit doesn't make the news the next day. Staring at the news on TV is depressing my wife; she told me that. There's an easy solution.

You're lucky to have found love. I'm on three dating sites and every day the world beats into my brain that there aren't many people like me. It's hard to be an ultra-liberal, autistic, atheist. Very few women can stand any one of those categories.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I wish I had the same problem.  Due to an illness, I lost a LOT of weight.  As in, I am considered underweight now.  Since the illness also tanked my appetite, I can't seem to gain any back.  Yet my newsfeed is filled with the new weight loss drugs.  Try to find weight gain help and even my doctor doesn't know what to tell me.  I have spent thousands of $$$ on high calorie, high protein drinks and snacks and still don't tip the scale at 100 pounds.  I had no idea that gaining weight would be such a challenge.

I look at it online, periodically. I do NOT need a reprise of their sound bites every half hour. Most shit doesn't make the news the next day. Staring at the news on TV is depressing my wife; she told me that. There's an easy solution.

You're lucky to have found love. I'm on three dating sites and every day the world beats into my brain that there aren't many people like me. It's hard to be an ultra-liberal, autistic, atheist. Very few women can stand any one of those categories.

Kick it old school. Leave off the dating sites and go to bars. You'll meet a better class of people.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^If I understand this correctly (and I confess to not having read the linked article), then he's saying that it's ok to believe in God if you believe God exists. 

I'm good with that.

Boru

[Angrboda]

^If I understand this correctly (and I confess to not having read the linked article), then he's saying that it's ok to believe in God if you believe God exists. 

I'm good with that.

Boru

Plantinga's argument is that it's reasonable to consider a self-authenticating witness of the holy spirit, a sensus divinitatus, is properly basic and therefore needing no justification, if and only if the mind/brain is doing what it was designed to do. That a healthy mind is designed to detect God assumes that there is a God to do such designing, which basically is what we need a self-authenticating witness to determine in the first place. So Plantinga's reformed epistemology becomes a very literal Munchausien lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps. The short version is that using reformed epistemology to argue that such things can evidence the existence of God is cracked and suffers from a vicious circularity.

[Rev. Rye]

[Paleophyte]

^If I understand this correctly (and I confess to not having read the linked article), then he's saying that it's ok to believe in God if you believe God exists. 

I'm good with that.

Boru

Plantinga's argument is that it's reasonable to consider a self-authenticating witness of the holy spirit, a sensus divinitatus, is properly basic and therefore needing no justification, if and only if the mind/brain is doing what it was designed to do.  That a healthy mind is designed to detect God assumes that there is a God to do such designing, which basically is what we need a self-authenticating witness to determine in the first place.  So Plantinga's reformed epistemology becomes a very literal Munchausien lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps.  The short version is that using reformed epistemology to argue that such things can evidence the existence of God is cracked and suffers from a vicious circularity.

Calling Plantinga's ramblings "cracked" is a bit generous. His "reliabilism" simply isn't demonstrated. We know that our brain is a sneaky little liar, evolved to jump to conclusions quickly rather than sitting down and figuring things out carefully. We're emotive and prone to falling for a whole laundry list of cognitive biases and faults. We believe shit because it feels right. If you examine Reliabilism in that light then it comes crashing down like a house of cards. Without that the whole mess comes undone and all you're left with is some lazy 'God therefore god' argumentation. If our thinking was reliable we wouldn't still be arguing this shit millennia later.

Plantinga goes on to champion religious exclusivity. It's kinda hilarious how he just happened to be born into exactly the right sect of the right religion. Or that all of his philosophy is just thinly-veiled Christian apologetics.

[Rizen]

Sarah Brightman is an amazing vocalist.

[Nay_Sayer]

I might need to buy another shelf for my collection. (Not a collection of shelves)