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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
Simon Paynton wrote:
I think it makes more sense if we consider a structure of the universe as being one of deterministic cause and effect. The proposal is that the universe, from start to finish, was formed in one go. All events and timelines of objects’ spatial movements were put in place by this process that formed the block det… -
Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
It seems to me as an atheist that the presentist universe makes more sense because the block universe is far more compatible with the intelligent design view.
The notion that the big bang, the trillions of galaxies and septillions of planets, the inception and explosion of life forms on Earth or anywhere, the construction of the Pyramids and…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
Block universe on the one hand or a universe governed by the inescapable necessity of physical laws, it makes no difference. It makes no matter how you respond to either situation. In the one case, your response has already happened in a sense while in the other, however you respond, your response is what had to happen.
Some will say, “But that’s…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
I agree almost entirely with this idea. I am a big fan of Carlo Rovelli and “Relational States”. There is no “Now”. All events exist “tenselessly”, i.e. without the concept of past, present or future. “Earlier than” and “later than” are structural facts, not things waiting to happen. We don’t experience the “whole loaf”. We are just a local pr…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
You may be wondering what evidence exists for the block universe theory. As the Gemini AI explains it:
The evidence for the Block Universe theory isn’t based on a single “discovery,” but rather on the logical conclusions we are forced to draw from Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.
If the math of relativity is a correct description of t…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 1 week ago
…for there to be no free will.
Under the current ‘standard model” of physics, accepted by the majority of physicists, we exist in a so-called “block universe.”
I asked Gemini AI to define block universe in layman terms and I got this:
In simple terms, the Block Universe theory is the idea that the past, the present, and the future all exist…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoSimon…about the reply from the evangelical street hawker – He was confused as to why I treated what he said as a subjective claim rather than an objective truth. These people are very well versed in controlling the conversation. They can dodge the question or reply with a question and most people don’t realize this.
EG, if I say I don’t b…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoThanks Reg!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks ago“Most of my friends are so well educated they can scarcely believe God exists.”
Theologian Lelio Sozzini in a letter to John Calvin on 14 May 1549 from Switzerland, commenting on the unusually high level of skepticism about God’s existence among educated men in Italy. It was an early encounter with what later historians see as the rise of s…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoHave a great week!!
“I must respect your beliefs?? Some chance of me doing that when I don’t even respect my own. I don’t believe things to feel safe. You don’t want your beliefs respected. You want them immunized for criticism. Once they are protected from scrutiny, beliefs will metastasize into ideology and when ideology remains unchall…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 3 months, 2 weeks ago
For some the cross is a plus but it’s a negative for me.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 3 months, 2 weeks ago
For most Christians the cross is a symbol of the resurrection, not the trinity.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Links to AI topics/posts outside this group in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 months, 3 weeks agoThe link works. I have a full NYT sub so can share 10 stories per month. I was on the phone with a friend in Zaporizhzhia a few nights ago. We had drones and gunfire for almost all of the call.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoFrom AI Welfare to AI Warfare. This is a great read. .
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoThanks, Reg!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoHave a great week everyone!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic Sunday School January 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoReligion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence, study argues.
More Americans identify as “religiously unaffiliated” than 10 years ago.
“This is an abuse of power. Despite Sanders’ best efforts, Arkansas is not a Christian theocracy.”
The Bondi Beach Muslim man’s heroism is being used to shift the narrative away from antisem…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks ago@Simon – Understanding is true belief. False beliefs are either redundant or harmful because delusion is always unsatisfactory.
That’s incorrect in modern epistemology. The old school of thought was that “Knowledge is justified true belief”. It is difficult to shake that idea because it is ‘folk epistemology’ and it has been around for centuries…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoOnce moral judgment is externalized, violence becomes procedural. Killing is no longer an act of violence. It becomes a duty to the cause. The killer experiences righteousness, not guilt. I remember the phone call by the Hamas terrorist to his father and both were rejoicing in the murders. Religion claims absolute moral authority by an…[Read more]
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