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- Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:22 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Being and Nonbeing
- Replies: 54
- Views: 77367
Re: Being and Nonbeing
Now the interesting thing about being, is that it cannot be a result. It cannot follow from will, intent or fiat, nor even from nature - for all those things would have to themselves be . True but it can't be evil either Yes, that's true, it can't be evil, because something evil necessarily comes f...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 2:50 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: God and smallpox
- Replies: 172
- Views: 210629
Re: God and smallpox
The problem is that if a good God who allows some evil for perfectly good reasons is unfalsifiable, due to the kinds of endless rationalizations and ad-hoc gerrymandering exemplified in standard theodicies (and this thread...!), then so is an evil God who allows some good for perfectly evil reasons...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:16 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Being and Nonbeing
- Replies: 54
- Views: 77367
Re: Being and Nonbeing
Now the interesting thing about being, is that it cannot be a result. It cannot follow from will, intent or fiat, nor even from nature - for all those things would have to themselves be.
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:11 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: God and smallpox
- Replies: 172
- Views: 210629
Re: God and smallpox
we can rule out evil God a priori based upon the nature of being, How so? the assertion about the nature of theodicies has to be born out on mine Sorry, not sure what you mean here. Law shows how theodicies can be inverted to show that God allows some good in order for a greater evil to come to pass.
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:50 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: God and smallpox
- Replies: 172
- Views: 210629
Re: God and smallpox
The problem is that if a good God who allows some evil for perfectly good reasons is unfalsifiable, due to the kinds of endless rationalizations and ad-hoc gerrymandering exemplified in standard theodicies (and this thread...!), then so is an evil God who allows some good for perfectly evil reasons....
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:30 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Apophatic vs. Cataphatic theology
- Replies: 15
- Views: 25620
Re: Apophatic vs. Cataphatic theology
The Justice League would be a Yugo. But that's besides the point, which is: why is one group of persons an organization, while another is a platonic essence?Metacrock wrote:that's not the concept. why the Justice leage can't be a Volkswagen bux
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:46 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Apophatic vs. Cataphatic theology
- Replies: 15
- Views: 25620
Re: Apophatic vs. Cataphatic theology
So is a pantheon!Metacrock wrote:that's because the averngers are an organizatiomn
Why can't an organization be a platonic essence? Your Avengers-nominalism troubles me.not a Platonic essence
- Mon Sep 12, 2016 5:50 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Myth as Meth
- Replies: 47
- Views: 68864
Re: Myth as Meth
All y'all ought to read it. He's saying things you'll disagree with, but from a slightly different perspective. He's a bit Nietzschean in that he takes an attitude of "oh dear, this isn't good at all" towards his ideas and futurism. For example, he fears we're headed towards a "semantic apocalypse" ...
- Mon Sep 12, 2016 5:41 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Being and Nonbeing
- Replies: 54
- Views: 77367
Re: Being and Nonbeing
Calling it 'being itself' seems quite clearly question-begging. But we could change that to call it 'shaloom-itself' or hat ever and still have the noun-ification problem. Can an utterly unbounded 'thing' exist? Can a 'thing' without at least a conceptual opposite exist? Does being depend on non-be...
- Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:42 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Myth as Meth
- Replies: 47
- Views: 68864
Myth as Meth
Here's a great little essay from R. Scott Bakker, a talented fantasy author and philosopher: https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/myth-as-meth/ What is the lesson that Tolkien teaches us with Middle-earth? The grand moral, I think, is that the illusion of a world can be so easily cued. Tolkien ...