Simon Paynton

Yes, but you wouldn’t be able to see God with your eyes.

I think it’s good, but the use of capitals comes off as a bit insane.  I can understand your general point, but I think it’s crying out for you to make further points.  For example, a Christian might say, this is material health, but it says nothing about spiritual health, which may be related to it.

Jesus represents life and hope.  That’s a good thing to be married to.

I think a problem with conventional representations of “God” is that humans insist on framing the concept in human terms.  Who says that God can’t change the future?  That God can’t experiment with different futures, even for Himself?  These contradictions don’t have to be contradictions.

As for existing outside space and time – these exist on…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If God, outside space and time, were to “conceive of everything in all of time and space at once and create it so,” is he free then to change it? It doesn’t sound to me from your construction here that he is. Or if he is free to change it, then then he didn’t really know the future (=not omniscient).

But we need to disting…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Imagine you are God: If you’re all knowing, then the future already exists and you are powerless to change it. Bye-bye omnipotency.

I don’t see the logical contradiction.  If the future already exists, as a 4-d spacetime shape, then God would be free to mould it as He wishes, with His full knowledge.

What’s a filter, @theencogitationer?

@theencogitationer – what are your particular interests?  All I care about is atheist morality.  I’m writing a book about it: an alternative formulation of morality for ordinary people, outside of the religions and traditional moral philosophy, based on evolutionary psychology and anthropology.  I also enjoy philosophy in general.

JadeBlackOlive wrote:
atheistuniverse.net

Good luck to them, but that’s the noisiest, busiest thing I’ve ever seen.

Unseen wrote:
I see all philosophical studies as abstract. You don’t solve a philosophical issue in any philosophical field in a laboratory or a CAD machine or committee.

I think that philosophical studies bridge the gap between “data” and “abstraction”.  So, sometimes we are looking at data, and sometimes abstracting out principles obtained fr…[Read more]

If school is really that bad for him, and if he could still interact with other kids after hours, then home schooling would appear to be the best option.  Why add to his stress load, when he maybe finds stress difficult to deal with?  Lots of kids do well out of conventional school, especially if they are taught good values.

I prefer Steve Taylor for that kind of thing, his books about post-traumatic growth, anyway: “Out of the Darkness” and “The Leap”.  He’s a psychology professor, so he understands the mechanics of the ego etc.

I don’t take much notice of the outlandish crap in the media etc.  Like Reg says, they only report bad news, and clickbait sells.