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And this is the very reason why I said and wrote, 'When the words 'free-will' refer to, The ability to choose, then ...'. I used the 'when' word for the very specific reason that words can have very different meanings. Some words even have exact opposite meanings, just to confuse things up more, fo...

Your opponents simply adopt a different meaning of free-will. 'Adopting', having, and using different meanings for different words, as I have been pointing out and saying here is WHY you adult human beings have been arguing, bickering, in conflict, and even killing each other for thousands upon tho...

It is an absolutely impossibility to make a choice upon something not yet known, obviously. They are not claiming that. Now, what I, clearly, said above here is that if you want to think or believe that it is logically possible to provide a sound and valid argument against a sound and valid argumen...

When the words 'free-will' refer to, The ability to choose, then both free will and determinism play more or less an equal part, in Life. See, everyone is completely free to make decisions, but all can only make a decision upon a limited amount of choices, which all of, it could be said and argued,...

It is funny to watch and observe just how many people completely dismiss me here when I say I have the irrefutable facts or Truths. And, what makes this more funnier to play out is these people did this without ever challenging nor questioning me. Can you state your irrefutable facts about free-wil...

Not that you would be brave enough to clarify here but remember it is you who keeps claiming that God is male gendered. So, is this a 'religious' construct or the actual reality, itself?

God used to be a guy with a wife.

Then God became non-binary.

Whatever "jiggery pockery and nonsense" IC has ... The idea that God can know the future without the future being predetermined is pretty common in religion and Christianity. But what is 'common' certainly does not mean that 'it' is even remotely close to the actual Truth of things. Sure....

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:39 pm

phyllo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:25 pm Too much of anything is destructive.

Especially destructive behavior. Too much of that can be very destructive.

Too much constructive behavior is destructive.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:28 pm AJ and his sympathies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwtyn-L-2gQ

That's a great song.

But I wouldn't demonize AJ.

Is there such a thing as cultural "decadence"? And does decadence take the form of "weakness" or "softness" as some appear to believe? Yes, one can see that in the decline of organizations. Could be a company, a nation, an empire. Are attitudes such as kindness, compas...

"The idea that God can know the future without the future being predetermined is pretty common in religion and Christianity." Indeed, and imma show u the big problem with it. Say there are a number of possible futures u can have, and that what u choose to do (or not) leads to one of these...

You can get a lot of information quickly now. It used to be much more limited and time consuming.

And if this were a religion forum I wouldn't be challenging him. Actually, I wouldn't even be here. It actually is a "religion forum". I've never seen a philosophy forum as obsessed with God and religion as this place. It seems to make its way into practically every thread. This thread is...

Whatever "jiggery pockery and nonsense" IC has ... The idea that God can know the future without the future being predetermined is pretty common in religion and Christianity. So he's just repeating a standard line of thinking. Of course, one can disagree and argue against it in a number of...

No, I don't claim that. I don't actually know what you mean by it. I'm just trying to figure out how you think that knowing and predetermination work together. I don't really have that many thoughts about it. It was only a case of pointing to the logical implications of IC's claim that God knows ev...