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Simon … I don’t know anymore I you’re paraphrasing appologits or defending their arguments.</p>

@simonpaynton There wasn’t any hell until Jesus turned up.

The idea might help some people in the same way that healing crystals or astrology helps some people.
But those things don’t get people off drugs, and keep them off, for example

Simon you are endlessly recycling the same appologism again and again. You ought to open your brain to a few new ideas beyond thriving and spiritualism.

You keep r…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
If there’s nothing to it, then why does “Jesus save”? How can people have their lives turned around, over nothing?

Because we are just gullible fragile humans simon. You need not look any further than our ability to believe anything and spend most our history having believed everything. Be it good or toxic fallout. We keep…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
What do you think of this quote? I was unable to find any wider context, except that Peter van Inwagen is a “prominent Christian philosopher”. It’s from the Reasonable Faith Facebook page.

When two people divorce, one or both of them is often angry and bitter. And the creature who divorces his creator can be the angri…

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I don’t think a particular reason is necesary. His existence, story, qualities, abilities is based on an enormous heap of stupidities…one after another. It’s a monstrous mountain of ridiculousness that would never fly in any other context or outside of forced belief or aggressive conversion. Raymond Tallis notes that he isn’t an atheist because…[Read more]

I would imagine very carefully programmed AI with very strict code of what not to do at any costs is okay as long as ithe goal is to complete a very specific task. Also it should be extremely difficult to tamper with the programming (preferably most of it hard coded) and make adaptions costly, elaborate and difficult to implement.

I think the…[Read more]

It’s also at the heart of one thing wanting to attack another thing just for the sake of domination.

Could you expanding this a little more please?

Viruses are like any other life form. All we do is live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.  Everything else we do is fluff to keep us occupied whilst we live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.

Its what makes ‘heaven’ so futile.  No death, no reproduction, nothing at all that generates adrenaline. Not sure I…[Read more]

But would the new AI robots be programmed to ‘thrive’?

My first pet was a cat. If it wanted to snuggle or be pet, she’d jump on my lap and usually purr. If I went to pet her, she’d swing her claws at me with a “get out  of my fucking face jerk” attitude. The first time she went missing was for three days. Finally found her coming out of a squirrel den. If you called her she would never come. If you…[Read more]