Now, ain't that typical of the "serious philosopher"? Actual tens of thousands of flesh and blood human beings in the path of devastation. A thread created to connect the dots between that and those who worship and adore a God said to be both loving, just and merciful and omniscient/omnipotent...and we're sent here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:14 pmOh, pardon me. I missed the part where I sent that to people in danger. I thought I sent it to people in a philosophy forum. I must have had a black out or psychotic break.iambiguous wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:39 pmNote to any Floridians here in the path of Ian:
Read this. Then get back to us after the storm bears down on thousands of other hapless souls. Well, once the power is restored. And you're still among the living.
Also, I already created a thread to deal with the "problem of evil" more along a theological/philosophical pathway: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=35199
This thread is aimed more specifically along this path...
I don't think that He [if He existed] would send us to that link myself.So, what, given your own best thinking, was God [your God, their God, any God] thinking when He created planet Earth to make these ghastly "acts of God" inevitable.
But, sure, maybe He would.
And then, of course, make this all about me:
Now, the question [mine] becomes this: what actually prompted this scathing declamation in which the whole issue here now basically does become about me?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 8:14 pmLet's treat your OP with the kind of skewed attack you aimed at me.
Note to any Floridians in the path of Ian: read the OP where someone is posing as already experiencing his empathy for your not yet occurred injuries and deaths, and then drifting into his narcissism at the end. The real issue is his wish that he had someone to blame for your deaths and injuries and how horrible it is for him not to have a deity to be enraged at on your behalf.
Get off your moral high horse you faux moral nihilist with your faux empathy you can't help but contradict in the same post.
How, apparently, he or she more definitively grasps my own motivations and intentions here than I think that I do myself. Though, again, admittedly, I'm no less "fractured and fragmented" there myself. Here's as close as I've ever come to grappling with it:
"He was like a man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with his impotence; and had only me, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest." John Fowles from The Magus
Maybe he or she will address this point more, uh, substantively and maybe he or she won't.
How about this...
A new thread in which we examine our respective philosophies at the existential intersection of identity, value judgments, conflicting goods and political economy. Given a particular set of circumstances that most here will be familiar with. That way as the discussion unfolds, Iwannaplato can note specific instances whereby his or her accusations against me become pertinent.