Recent content by Jarhyn

Yes, I do think that people who regularly defend awful people in the course of awful things they do, are likely awful people. The whole "15 isn't a 'child'" 'defense' is chief among these. It is "flocking together", commonly done by "birds of a feather". I have not made any secret that I wish...

No, God does not exist, depending on what definition you use for the term. Any proposed Omniscient Creator God ends up in the same bucket, is the same thing, owing to "omniscience". In fact the word "omniscience" itself or even the word "necessary" injected in the wrong part of a sentence or...

Yes, actually, at this point I AM! Instead of having concerns over the fact that it does look like the island was a place for secret and private sexual activities, some of which apparently involved a dental chair surrounded by masks of historic dictators, we are just told to think these are...

"East of England". Sure. I expect that if they looked in places closer to the origin of human morphology (where earlier hominids would be more commonly discovered), we would discover this as much as twice as far back... It's just that there's money for archeology in England where people with...

"It doesn't look like anything at all".

I mean, it's a much kinder restatement of what I keep saying in terms of "people with no dreams are easy to control", as cribbed from TNES; and in saying those compatibilist-acting fatalist-advertising scoundrels are the real ones to benefit.

So, this idea of "faulty premise" is a fairy important one in math to the idea of proof and disproof. Disproof in math comes in the form of accepting the normal axioms of ZFC, and then selecting one or more axioms to add. The axiom added for a disproof (or a proof) contains some statement that...

I mean, he says that, but project 2026 just dropped, and it's targeting gay rights and Obgerfell. That said... No. I bet you could probably pull some gross DNA off of them, still.

That which is asserted but contradictory, proposed as real but literally impossible, can be used in various ways to argue literally anything. Once you have that contradiction in hand, once you have put "omniscience" into your sentence, you could as much say that because God is omniscient and...

The eminent question is rather whether once you have already said "omniscient" whether you already invoked a contradiction. I would argue you would have; something that has no uncertainty not just about the future but about anything is "the set of all sets": it contains all knowledge about all...

And that is a bald assertion, and where the conflation you seem to be making is coming from. "Multiple alternative possibilities", despite the redundancy on all of that, does not imply "indeterminateness" in any interpretation that would imply that the future is not determined in the future in a...

I'm kind of shocked that this is the first you are hearing about the Tates. I was unaware that they had fled to the modern-day slavery capital of the world, however.

Yes we do; yes we are. Our brains do, absolutely, think in almost complete isolation from most other stuff around them. That's the whole point of a skull, and mylin, and the short-range effects of neuro-transmitters that seem quite highly evolved to the purposes of isolating what goes on inside...

Nope. This is complete bullshit. We have shown you, repeatedly, how the future is not Indeterminate or "probabilistic". Read that once more. The future is not currently "already determined", it is deterministic. The future is determined in the future. That doesn't mean there is...

Yeah, my own biggest disappointment is in myself, though, for how long it took me to see any of that clearly. That said, after diving into trying to understand Gnosticism and gnostic-adjacent occultism, I ended up walking away from it with several different concepts of "god", and one of them...