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fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
Yes
stirring property black woman
  08/14/20
Is his personhood an essential property or a contingent prop...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
not a doctrine of divine simplicity guy eh?
talking becky
  08/14/20
dont catholics think that all of god's essence is contained ...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
energies talk is eastern and associated with gregory of pala...
talking becky
  08/14/20
i think that's why i converted out of orthodoxy. the essence...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
I am very fond of orthodox theology especially patristics bu...
talking becky
  08/14/20
I do.
Thriller Silver Liquid Oxygen Mother
  08/14/20
Yeah
hairraiser gold sandwich circlehead
  08/14/20
the collective societal brain is your God.
lime stain locus
  08/14/20
(durkheim)
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
nope!
massive marketing idea crotch
  08/14/20
...
Vibrant weed whacker
  08/14/20
youre going to need to define what you mean by "God&quo...
house-broken box office
  08/14/20
Evidence doesn't look good
Bronze insecure stage
  08/14/20
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=waziKjv_2qU
abusive amethyst voyeur
  08/14/20
there's some highly dubious historical evidence for some Iro...
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
you think order emerges spontaneously from chaos?
house-broken box office
  08/14/20
maybe some sort of order just always existed
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
i see you've thought about this deeply
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
as deeply as needed for your god-of-the-gaps argument
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
consciousness sure is just a temporary gap in naturalism - s...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
2 weeks
house-broken box office
  08/14/20
you're right, it makes far more sense that consciousness jus...
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
do you understand the problem of consciousness? if so, could...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
could you briefly describe how it bears directly on the ques...
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
so the answer appears to be no, no worries man
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
i take it the answer to my question appears to be no. all go...
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
that's not really how conversations work. if i pose a questi...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
i'm just not really interested in having some drawn-out deba...
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
weird angry reply
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
oh yeah, just completely apoplectic. yosemite sam fuming.
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
isn't what we think of as consciousness just a bunch of chem...
Shaky doctorate son of senegal
  08/14/20
no, yes
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
where can i read and learn more about the part i was wrong a...
Shaky doctorate son of senegal
  08/14/20
the closest theory to the physicalism you propose that still...
fear-inspiring crystalline private investor
  08/14/20
ty pumo
Shaky doctorate son of senegal
  08/14/20
180
house-broken box office
  08/14/20
Lol man
self-centered candlestick maker native
  08/14/20
poasters on this site make this exact argument, bro
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
I think it’s pretty reasonable to say the historical e...
talking becky
  08/14/20
What argument
self-centered candlestick maker native
  08/14/20
Wasn't Charles a huge Godmo? Why would God do this to him?
Bronze insecure stage
  08/14/20
(Hagar the Horrible) why not?
vengeful twinkling indirect expression
  08/14/20
What's the point of believing in something that screws you o...
Bronze insecure stage
  08/14/20
why did God make Charles out himself to win MPM? wd will nev...
house-broken box office
  08/14/20
Yes.
dashing heaven pisswyrm
  08/14/20
The deist clockmaker god, maybe.
Transparent Razzle-dazzle House Filthpig
  08/14/20
It doesn't actually matter and religious is important regard...
Wild chocolate meetinghouse nibblets
  08/14/20
no, just a really good sim programmer
lime stain locus
  08/14/20
Without faith there can be no God. If you absolutely knew...
180 frozen therapy
  08/14/20
(antonius block)
lime stain locus
  08/14/20
ya man
green greedy giraffe
  08/14/20
If he does not and we do, are we god? If we are god but god ...
nubile water buffalo
  08/14/20
No. N/A.
Wild chocolate meetinghouse nibblets
  08/15/20
how else do you think Her lost
Ruddy irradiated trust fund
  08/15/20


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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:45 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754746)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:46 AM
Author: stirring property black woman

Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754754)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:47 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

Is his personhood an essential property or a contingent property

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754760)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:54 AM
Author: talking becky

not a doctrine of divine simplicity guy eh?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754799)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:57 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

dont catholics think that all of god's essence is contained in each of his energies?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754817)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:00 AM
Author: talking becky

energies talk is eastern and associated with gregory of palamas.

the doctrine of divine simplicity is western and eastern and basically says that there’s no distinction between gods essence and his properties. at least that’s a modern/analytical way of conceptualizing it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755171)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:07 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

i think that's why i converted out of orthodoxy. the essence/energy distinction is unsatisfactory to me. to say God is ultimately unknowable is just so mehhhhh

now that i think about it, there seems to be a serious objection to that kind of mysterianism about God, namely, how did Christ die to reconcile us with God if God is ultimately unknowable?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755227)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:13 AM
Author: talking becky

I am very fond of orthodox theology especially patristics but the palamite stuff is all questionable. agree totally. too much authority given to neoplatonist thought.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755270)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:46 AM
Author: Thriller Silver Liquid Oxygen Mother

I do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754757)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:51 AM
Author: hairraiser gold sandwich circlehead

Yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754784)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:52 AM
Author: lime stain locus

the collective societal brain is your God.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754787)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:52 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

(durkheim)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754791)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:52 AM
Author: massive marketing idea crotch

nope!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754788)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:53 AM
Author: Vibrant weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754796)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:55 AM
Author: house-broken box office

youre going to need to define what you mean by "God"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754805)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 9:55 AM
Author: Bronze insecure stage

Evidence doesn't look good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754806)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:02 AM
Author: abusive amethyst voyeur

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=waziKjv_2qU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754841)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:27 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

there's some highly dubious historical evidence for some Iron Age religious fanatics having been killed for their beliefs, so I don't see how you can say no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40754976)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:34 AM
Author: house-broken box office

you think order emerges spontaneously from chaos?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755020)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:35 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

maybe some sort of order just always existed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755026)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:36 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

i see you've thought about this deeply

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755028)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:36 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

as deeply as needed for your god-of-the-gaps argument

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755034)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:37 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

consciousness sure is just a temporary gap in naturalism - surely we'll crack that physical process soon enough

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755035)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:39 AM
Author: house-broken box office

2 weeks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755041)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:39 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

you're right, it makes far more sense that consciousness just exists because of magic and has no process behind it whatsoever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755043)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:44 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

do you understand the problem of consciousness? if so, could you briefly describe its intractability?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755069)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:45 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

could you briefly describe how it bears directly on the question posed by the OP?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755075)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:46 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

so the answer appears to be no, no worries man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755083)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:47 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

i take it the answer to my question appears to be no. all good pumbro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755088)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:49 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

that's not really how conversations work. if i pose a question to you, and you fail to respond and instead ask your own question, its a clear case of disingenuous sophistry. conversations proceed according to turns - you're just trying to skip my turn. are you a youngest child in the family by chance?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755092)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:52 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

i'm just not really interested in having some drawn-out debate about the problem of consciousness. but if you want to skip the sneering about naturalism and tie it back to the question posed by the OP, feel free

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755117)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:55 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

weird angry reply

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755132)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:55 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

oh yeah, just completely apoplectic. yosemite sam fuming.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755135)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:49 AM
Author: Shaky doctorate son of senegal

isn't what we think of as consciousness just a bunch of chemical reactions in are brains? so, it could have been designed and built by an engineer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755094)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:50 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

no, yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755102)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:51 AM
Author: Shaky doctorate son of senegal

where can i read and learn more about the part i was wrong about?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755110)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:54 AM
Author: fear-inspiring crystalline private investor

the closest theory to the physicalism you propose that still admits the categorical difference of mental states is non-reductive physicalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind#Non-reductive_physicalism

there are a myriad of other philosophies of mind that also admit the categorical difference without being physicalist monists: dualism, neutral monism and idealism are the broad categories.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755131)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:55 AM
Author: Shaky doctorate son of senegal

ty pumo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755136)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:13 AM
Author: house-broken box office

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755273)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:50 AM
Author: self-centered candlestick maker native

Lol man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755105)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:55 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

poasters on this site make this exact argument, bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755133)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:11 AM
Author: talking becky

I think it’s pretty reasonable to say the historical evidence for Jesus’s resurrection is compelling to you as a personal matter and that this is at least partially a grounds for your Christian faith. some of the arguments are only convincing at all if you already buy the story but I don’t think they’re all quite as poor as your dismissive tone.

as for belief in God generally we’re talking about something else. of course there’s the occasional apologist who acts like the evidence for Jesus’s resurrection is so compelling to the objective observer that it ought to make everyone a god believer but I don’t think many people even of the type of people who are “into apologetics” think that. I don’t think that’s what teddy b et al are saying when they talk about the martyrs as grounding their faith. they’re talking specifically about their belief in a literal resurrection

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755251)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:52 AM
Author: self-centered candlestick maker native

What argument

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755473)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:40 AM
Author: Bronze insecure stage

Wasn't Charles a huge Godmo? Why would God do this to him?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755045)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:41 AM
Author: vengeful twinkling indirect expression

(Hagar the Horrible)

why not?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755051)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:49 AM
Author: Bronze insecure stage

What's the point of believing in something that screws you over?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755096)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:41 AM
Author: house-broken box office

why did God make Charles out himself to win MPM? wd will never know

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755054)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 10:43 AM
Author: dashing heaven pisswyrm

Yes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755062)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:09 AM
Author: Transparent Razzle-dazzle House Filthpig

The deist clockmaker god, maybe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755243)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:11 AM
Author: Wild chocolate meetinghouse nibblets

It doesn't actually matter and religious is important regardless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755257)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: lime stain locus

no, just a really good sim programmer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755405)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 12:14 PM
Author: 180 frozen therapy

Without faith there can be no God.

If you absolutely knew there was a God then you wouldn't need God.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755618)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 12:19 PM
Author: lime stain locus

(antonius block)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755658)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 12:14 PM
Author: green greedy giraffe

ya man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755622)



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Date: August 14th, 2020 12:15 PM
Author: nubile water buffalo

If he does not and we do, are we god? If we are god but god doesn't exist, do we exist?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40755632)



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Date: August 15th, 2020 12:56 AM
Author: Wild chocolate meetinghouse nibblets

No. N/A.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40758759)



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Date: August 15th, 2020 1:01 AM
Author: Ruddy irradiated trust fund

how else do you think Her lost

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4603592&forum_id=2#40758775)