• Free Will & Omnipotence
    An omnipotent person has free will — Bartricks

    Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to convey. There's a thread around here somewhere that asks the question "Does God have free will?"

    However, there's something more interesting going on. Can you figure it out? You seem quite active today. Too much coffee?
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    What's the difference between a dictator and God?

    The 10 COMMANDments!

    The situation is worse than I initially imagined it to be. We're practically slaves, God's our master.
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    confused — Bartricks

    Yep!
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    I did not say that it was 'necessarily' true — Bartricks

    Then you have no argument.
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    Does God have free will?
    — Agent Smith

    Yes. He can do anything.     — Bartricks

    There's the link between free will & omnipotence. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, sir/madam, as the case may be. :up:
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    God is morally good and, as I have literally just told you, doesn't make people do his bidding. — Bartricks

    Yes, you did say something, but it isn't necessarily true now is it?
  • LNC & Idealism
    :broken:
  • LNC & Idealism
    No, you think God is morally bad. That's a contradiction. It's no different to thinking bachelors have wives. — Bartricks

    :lol:
  • LNC & Idealism
    That's a contradiction — Bartricks

    Not necessarily. I could reject a premise and resolve the contradiction.
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    ↪Bartricks
    What's the difference between God and your garden variety dictator?
  • LNC & Idealism
    Certainly minds can think contradictory thoughts
    — Bartricks

    Show me!     — Agent Smith
  • LNC & Idealism
    No — Bartricks

    Why is the brain/mind not a sense organ for patterns?
  • LNC & Idealism
    Berkeley's idealism — Bartricks

    Berkeley's version is that everything is mind-dependent. It's in my OP.
  • LNC & Idealism
    ↪Bartricks
    :ok:
  • LNC & Idealism
    Certainly minds can think contradictory thoughts — Bartricks

    Show me!
  • LNC & Idealism
    I do not know what you mean by 'do a contradiction' — Bartricks

    Never mind. I'm sure you have better things to do.
  • LNC & Idealism
    strawman version of idealism — Bartricks

    What's the real version of idealism, pray tell.
  • LNC & Idealism
    We know of them by reason, not sense. — Bartricks

    Reason "senses" patterns?
  • LNC & Idealism
    That's fallacious and it is not essential to idealism. — Bartricks

    What's the fallacy?

    Berkeley — Bartricks

    Yep, Berekely, he's behind this mess. Good to meet someone who's got a good handle on him. :up:
  • LNC & Idealism
    Can a mind do contradictions?
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    Yes. He can do anything. Doesn't get much freer than that. Plus God clearly values free will and so would make sure he had it. — Bartricks

    If you say so. :ok:
  • LNC & Idealism
    mischaracterization of idealism — Bartricks

    dependent on the mind — Agent Smith

    :chin:
  • LNC & Idealism
    minds themselves exist yet are not conceivable. — Bartricks

    That which sees can't itself be seen. Ergo, that which sees doesn't exist.
  • LNC & Idealism
    I don't see any connection. — Bartricks

    Limiting the actual, the physical included, using the LNC (what our minds can't do) as a touchstone for what's possible/impossible.
  • Omnipotence (Dictator/God)
    But they do not have to (for they are omnipotent). — Bartricks

    Status: Approved

    I can shoot you, if I have a gun, but will I?

    Does God have free will?
  • Omnipotence and the Law of Non-Contradiction (A related OP)


    You are HIV Aladeen! :lol:
  • Pascal's Wager
    Boring as hell as well. :worry: — Sir2u

    I agree!
  • Pascal's Wager
    continue chanting the same sentence with different words. — Sir2u

    Bad idea!
  • Pascal's Wager
    It is also interesting that you used the word evolve to talk about a creation, but we can let that slip unnoticed I believe — Sir2u

    :up:
  • The Problem of Evil
    ↪Philosophim
    :up: Sorry for interrupting your discussion. I'm way in over my head here. Pardon monsieur! Carry on.
  • The Problem of Evil
    I have, and that is what I've concluded. Its your job to show me why my conclusion is wrong. "I don't think so," is not philosophy. — Philosophim

    Well, the law of noncontradiction seems to imply idealism. Are you an idealist?
  • The Problem of Evil
    logically inconsistent, and impossible — Philosophim

    You might wanna reconsider that.
  • The Problem of Evil
    "If there's a God, why aren't people always happy?" — theRiddler

    There was this man who pointed his telescope towards the ground and wondered why he couldn't see any stars? It was after dark.
  • The Problem of Evil
    The world you ask for is dead at its heart — theRiddler

    :cry:
  • Sophistry
    We do have lots of data about bullshiting ourselves and others. — Paine

    Not deliberate. (Genuinely) confused, hence the BS we find ourselves neck deep in.

    it is not stupid to try. — Paine

    suffering the cost of not trying — Paine

    :broken:
  • The Problem of Evil
    If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: —Not that I hated (loved) Caesar (less), but that I loved
    Rome more.     — Marcus Brutus (Julius Caesar)

    There is no evil. Period!
  • The Root of all Evil
    self-love — Ciceronianus

    :up: Love nonetheless.
  • Sophistry
    suffering the cost of not trying — Paine

    That I can relate to.

    You mean to say philosophy is about truth? To me, philosophy is about discourse that happens in the search for truth, there being no gurantee that there is a truth, good/bad for us.
  • Can Theists Reject Dualism?
    Well, even if it were true that theists can't deny dualism, the converse isn't true i.e. dualists can be atheists. The love isn't reciprocated :broken:
  • The Root of all Evil
    Love thinking about love. Or the two love chameleons. — EugeneW

    :up:
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