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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:30 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:32 am
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:33 am
I can make it simple and knowable for you. Is your existence necessary?
What is the "it" in your last sentence?
By it I mean the discussion so we can discuss about knowable things.
You have lost the plot.
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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:30 pm By it I mean the discussion so we can discuss about knowable things.
You have lost the plot.
So to answer your dumb question. We are here of necessity since we were all born from the conditions of cause and effect. What we do is also entriely contingent upon circumstances.
Unless you think I just energed from the elbow of Zeus, or popped into being with no cause then even you think I am "necessary".
That which is contingent is the recognition that changing events are caused by various contingent factors upon which they rely.
Thus my continuong contibution on this thread is contingent upon my continued use of a wi-fi connection and a working computer.

"Everything" that is known as the "universe" is a collection of things upon which all other things are contingent.
But regardless of all those causes and effects, the Universe itself or "EVERYTHING" as a whol is not depenant on any other thing SINCE IT IS "everything" as is not contingent upon anything.
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bahman wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:45 pm The question is why this universe rather than any other universe? This means that our universe is only one possibility among many other possible universes. This means that our universe could exist not. Therefore, our universe is contingent.
Nowhere is man's paltry intellectual aptitude more evident then when speculating on subject-matter such as the Universe. As if we can understand anything at all, yet the whole enchalada.

It's about doing productive things. Keep the thinking to a minimum and perhaps our species has a chance to survive a bit longer...
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Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:30 pm By it I mean the discussion so we can discuss about knowable things.
You have lost the plot.
So to answer your dumb question. We are here of necessity since we were all born from the conditions of cause and effect.
But there is volition too so we are not here necessarily. I mean, your parents could decide to do not have you.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm What we do is also entriely contingent upon circumstances.
I agree. There is volition too.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm Unless you think I just energed from the elbow of Zeus, or popped into being with no cause then even you think I am "necessary".
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm That which is contingent is the recognition that changing events are caused by various contingent factors upon which they rely.
Thus my continuong contibution on this thread is contingent upon my continued use of a wi-fi connection and a working computer.
I agree. There is volition too.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm "Everything" that is known as the "universe" is a collection of things upon which all other things are contingent.
I agree.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm But regardless of all those causes and effects, the Universe itself or "EVERYTHING" as a whol is not depenant on any other thing SINCE IT IS "everything" as is not contingent upon anything.
You need to prove two things: 1) The universe contains everything and 2) How something that its part is contingent could be necessary?
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simplicity wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:26 pm
bahman wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:45 pm The question is why this universe rather than any other universe? This means that our universe is only one possibility among many other possible universes. This means that our universe could exist not. Therefore, our universe is contingent.
Nowhere is man's paltry intellectual aptitude more evident then when speculating on subject-matter such as the Universe. As if we can understand anything at all, yet the whole enchalada.
What is enchalada?
simplicity wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:26 pm It's about doing productive things. Keep the thinking to a minimum and perhaps our species has a chance to survive a bit longer...
I have nothing else to do but thinking.
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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:40 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:30 pm By it I mean the discussion so we can discuss about knowable things.
You have lost the plot.
So to answer your dumb question. We are here of necessity since we were all born from the conditions of cause and effect.
But there is volition too so we are not here necessarily. I mean, your parents could decide to do not have you.
Volition is driven by hormones, and brain states. You cannot escape reality - though you seem to exhibit that, you are still determined by what you are .
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm What we do is also entriely contingent upon circumstances.
I agree. There is volition too.
Votiion is deterministic
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm Unless you think I just energed from the elbow of Zeus, or popped into being with no cause then even you think I am "necessary".
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.
Give ONE example.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm That which is contingent is the recognition that changing events are caused by various contingent factors upon which they rely.
Thus my continuong contibution on this thread is contingent upon my continued use of a wi-fi connection and a working computer.
I agree. There is volition too.
Yes there is that determinisng factor amongst others.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm "Everything" that is known as the "universe" is a collection of things upon which all other things are contingent.
I agree.
Including volition.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm But regardless of all those causes and effects, the Universe itself or "EVERYTHING" as a whole is not depenant on any other thing SINCE IT IS "everything" as is not contingent upon anything.
You need to prove two things: 1) The universe contains everything and 2) How something that its part is contingent could be necessary?
No. I have nothing to prove. You are the one making the false assertions at the top o the thread. What I say is logically sound.
The universe is necessary.
Its parts are contingent on one another since they are wholly determined by one another.
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Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:13 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 8:40 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
You have lost the plot.
So to answer your dumb question. We are here of necessity since we were all born from the conditions of cause and effect.
But there is volition too so we are not here necessarily. I mean, your parents could decide to do not have you.
Volition is driven by hormones, and brain states. You cannot escape reality - though you seem to exhibit that, you are still determined by what you are.
Hormones and brain states are deterministic. Volition is not.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm What we do is also entriely contingent upon circumstances.
I agree. There is volition too.
Votiion is deterministic
No.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm Unless you think I just energed from the elbow of Zeus, or popped into being with no cause then even you think I am "necessary".
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.
Give ONE example.
Virtual particles.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm That which is contingent is the recognition that changing events are caused by various contingent factors upon which they rely.
Thus my continuong contibution on this thread is contingent upon my continued use of a wi-fi connection and a working computer.
I agree. There is volition too.
Yes there is that determinisng factor amongst others.
No. The volition is not deterministic.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm "Everything" that is known as the "universe" is a collection of things upon which all other things are contingent.
I agree.
Including volition.
No, volition does not depend on something else. You can choose freely.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm But regardless of all those causes and effects, the Universe itself or "EVERYTHING" as a whole is not depenant on any other thing SINCE IT IS "everything" as is not contingent upon anything.
You need to prove two things: 1) The universe contains everything and 2) How something that its part is contingent could be necessary?
No. I have nothing to prove. You are the one making the false assertions at the top o the thread. What I say is logically sound.
No, it does not logically sound. You need to prove that the universe contains everything.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm The universe is necessary.
It is not when all its parts are contingent.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm Its parts are contingent on one another since they are wholly determined by one another.
I agree.
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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:29 pm Hormones and brain states are deterministic. Volition is not.
What causes volition?
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.

Virtual particles.
Virtual particles are caused by computer programs. They are caused.

Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm Its parts are contingent on one another since they are wholly determined by one another.
I agree.
Then you have contradicted yourself once again.
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Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:29 pm Hormones and brain states are deterministic. Volition is not.
What causes volition?
The volition is caused by the mind, the mind being an irreducible substance.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.

Virtual particles.
Virtual particles are caused by computer programs. They are caused.
Not at all. They are part of the reality. You might like to read this.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 5:12 pm Its parts are contingent on one another since they are wholly determined by one another.
I agree.
Then you have contradicted yourself once again.
Not when choice matters. Otherwise, things are fully deterministic.
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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:10 am
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
You keep repeating your nonsense.
It only APPEARS as "nonsense" to those who do NOT even attempt to GAIN CLARITY.

Because, OF COURSE, if and when CLARITY is GAINED that what WAS once considered "nonsense" can only then BEGIN to makes sense.

By the way, what part of what I said here do you consider is "my nonsense"?
That our universe is eternal and infinite.
But I have NEVER said that, and, by the way, I NEVER would say that.

I suggest that, from now on, you read the ACTUAL words that I say and write, and just use them ALONE.

That way you will NOT be SO Wrong regards your ASSUMPTION, as OFTEN as you are here.
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
No, I didn't say so. How things began is off-topic.
WHY?

If thee One and ONLY Universe is contingent or NOT, then a discussion about whether thee One and ONLY Universe began or NOT could be VERY ON TOPIC.
No. The fact that the universe has a beginning has nothing to do with contingency.
What are you basing this so-called "fact" on, EXACTLY?
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
No, there was a beginning but no God who creates out of noting.
So, to you, there was a beginning to the Universe, correct, or 'a beginning' to some thing else? And, if it was the latter, then what was that 'thing', EXACTLY?

Is there 'A God' to you?

If yes, then WHERE is this God in relation to thee Universe, Itself? And what, EXACTLY, did this God create, EXACTLY?
I said there is no God.
But, to you, there are 'minds' that create 'things' correct?

If this is correct, to you, and the Universe began, then what, EXACTLY, made the Universe begin?
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Off-topic.
Here we have a PRIME EXAMPLE of EXACTLY WHEN someone is NOT able to back up and support THEIR CLAIMS. Which is FURTHER PROOF of EXACTLY HOW, WHY, WHEN, and WHERE someone's CLAIMS are just plain old False, Wrong, or Incorrect. Which leads to discovering or uncovering WHAT thee ACTUAL Truth IS, EXACTLY.
Off-topic. So please don't comment on this future since I am not going to reply to it.
How could you even reply to 'this future' anyway?
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Creation is the ability of mind.
Of which, to you, there are MANY.

Like, there are "minds", which 'you', human beings, have and use BUT which, contradictory, CONTROL 'you' AS WELL. And, there are, to you again, "minds", which exist within ALL objects, and then there is that all-knowing, all-powerful, all-etc, simply the creator "mind", which may or may not have caused or created 'the beginning' of the Universe. Which, to you, is NOT Everything.
I never said that there is a mind or minds who created the beginning.
But ALL them just simply create, correct?
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Yes. I have a thread on this topic, the act of creation out of nothing is logically impossible.
So, because 'you' "have a thread" on a particular topic, then this MEANS 100% that WHATEVER "bahman" writes in that thread IS IRREFUTABLY True, Right, AND Correct, correct?

In other words, if "bahman" writes "a thread", then what 'you' write can NOT be False, Wrong, NOR Incorrect, correct?
I just meant that I don't think that there is a creator of everything out of nothing. Whether this is true or not is the subject to another thread so it is off-topic.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
All other attributes of God.
What "other" attributes?

The ones 'you', "bahman", gives, or the ones that "immanuel can" gives, or the ones "veritas aequitas" gives, and provides?

Also, does whatever attributes 'you', human beings, give to what God is, MEAN that that is what God is, EXACTLY?
Other attributes like changeless, omnipresent, all-loving, etc. This is however off-topic so please don't ask further questions.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Off-topic.
MORE PROOF of WHEN one is NOT ABLE to respond NOR answer when they are are CHALLENGED or QUESTIONED on THEIR CLAIMS.
Off-topic.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Mind does not have a gender but a person could have a gender or it could be an it.
YET you just got through CLAIMING that there is "a mind" which is a "she" or a "he", and that "he" or "she" KNOWS EVERY thing.

But now you want to CLAIM that 'Mind' does NOT have a gender, but people may or may not have a gender.

Do you reckon that just ONCE when I CHALLENGE you or ask you a QUESTION for CLARITY that you will be ABLE to PROVIDE some sort of CLARITY instead of just making things FAR MORE NONSENSICAL or CONVOLUTED?
As I said mind does not have gender but the person has. This is however off-topic.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Off-topic.
Okay. So, WHY did 'you' bring up this off-topic 'thing', in the first place?
My fault.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:47 pm
Ok. As you say.
And is this all you could REALLY say.

After all I just POINTED OUT and SHOWED some of the parts of what you say that do NOT make sense and ARE ILLOGICAL, to me.
There are many things that we discuss in this thread that are off-topic. Including this one.
This does not take away from the Fact that you have absolutely NO evidence AT ALL for your CLAIMS here, let alone have ANY ACTUAL PROOF. Nor, from just how much illogical nonsense you CLAIM here while 'trying' your hardest to back up and support those False, Wrong, and Incorrect CLAIMS of yours.

Besides this if you think discussing the Universe and how It exists and/or where It came from is "off topic" in a thread and topic about the 'Universe being contingent', then I think you will find that you are sadly very mistaken.
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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:26 pm
Age wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:56 am
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:06 pm
The non-physical universe is a universe that human beings cannot experience
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Then how do 'you', the human being, KNOW that 'it' even exists at all?

Are 'you', "bahman", a human being?

If yes, then HOW did 'you' come to experience this OTHER universe, which 'you' can NOT experience?

But if 'you', "bahman", are NOT a human being, then who and/or what are 'you', EXACTLY?
No, I didn't experience other universes but they could exist. The universe with a higher dimension which contains our universe or the universe which are causally independent of ours.
What does the word 'universe' actually mean or refer to, to you?
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:26 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:27 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:06 pm
I am making the distinction between universes. I cannot help you if you cannot understand the simple fact.
And I have ALREADY PROVED IRREFUTABLY True, to you, that there IS NOT and NEVER even could be ANY "other universes". But, if you can NOT YET understand this Fact, then 'we' will HAVE TO FIND OTHER WAYS to help 'you' to SEE and UNDERSTAND what thee ACTUAL Truth IS here "bahman".
Where is your proof that there are no other universes?
1. The size and dimension of this one and ONLY Universe.

2. EXACTLY what the word 'Universe' refers to.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:27 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:06 pm
I disagree with what you said. Our universe is not eternal since it has a beginning.
"our universe" is NOT EVEN a Correct and Accurate phrase or term. Let alone have absolutely ANY thing to do with what thee One and ONLY ACTUAL Truth IS here. So, you can disagree until the day that little old body stops breathing and pumping blood. But if 'you' can NOT even USE the Correct and Right True terms and phrases, to begin with, then 'you' will NEVER come to KNOW what thee One and ONLY ACTUAL Truth IS.

In "bahman's" own 'little world' it may be ABSOLUTELY and IRREFUTABLY True that "bahman's" and "some other's" universe is NOT eternal, and thus had NO beginning. But that is just that "little universe" ONLY, which OBVIOUSLY has NO bearing AT ALL on what ACTUALLY HAPPENS and OCCURS in thee One and ONLY Universe, in which absolutely EVERY thing exists.
As I mentioned the universe is not eternal.[/quote]

You NEVER mentioned that here. As can be CLEARLY SEEN and PROVED True, by your OWN words here.
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:26 pm This is the subject of another thread so feel free to open another thread and discuss your idea there. Off-topic.
So, you discuss these things SOME times, and you even START these discussions SOME times but when we delve into them and SEE that they are ILLOGICAL you turn to the "off topic" remark, and ONLY when you think that is suits you.
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:26 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:27 pm
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:06 pm It might not be infinite too. You need a proof for it.
But I do NOT need a proof for the Fact that thee One and ONLY Universe IS eternal AND infinite. That is just the way 'things' ARE. Oh, and by the way, I NEVER needed proof for that NOR ANY thing else is because I neither BELIEVE nor DISBELIEVE ANY thing is true. So, I do NOT seek NOR need PROOF. I just use what IS, ALREADY, for PROOF. As, what IS SPEAKS for Itself, anyway.
No, you need a proof. Why our physical universe is infinite?
WHY THEE Universe is infinite is because of WHAT EXACTLY the Universe is, fundamentally, made up of AND because of HOW THEE Universe, actually, works.

There IS thee PROOF.
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:26 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:27 pm

And, I could also ACCUSE 'you' of being HOPELESS because I BELIEVE, without ACTUAL PROOF, that you can NOT understand some thing, AS WELL.

But for ANY one to even ATTEMPT to do this just SHOWS and REVEALS the IMMATURITY and STUPIDITY of that one, so I would NEVER do such a thing as you have done here.

By the way, WHAT 'conflict of interest' are you referring to here, EXACTLY?

And, HOW could ANY 'conflict of interest' STOP 'cause AND effect' from continually occurring and happening?
This we already discussed. When there are options in the system then there is a conflict of interest.
SO WHAT?

Cause AND effect IS CONTINUOUS, no matter how many 'conflicts of interests' occur.
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:26 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:27 pm

So, WHY do you NOT just SAY what you ACTUALLY MEAN, INSTEAD?
Ok, off-topic.
Off-topic.
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bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:29 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:04 am
bahman wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:24 am
I don't like P1. Prove me that it is correct.
P1 is self-explanatory.
Reality is ALL that exists.

It is supported by my earlier syllogism, i.e.
1. Reality is all there is.
2.The human mind is intricately linked to all within all there is.
3. Therefore the human mind cannot be independent for whatever things are in reality.
Your conclusion in the second syllogism "the human mind cannot be independent for whatever things are in reality" is different from P1 in the first syllogism "Reality as all-there-is cannot be independent of human minds".
My reinforced second P1 included P3 of the first syllogism.
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bahman wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:55 am
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:29 pm Hormones and brain states are deterministic. Volition is not.
What causes volition?
The volition is caused by the mind, the mind being an irreducible substance.
Is 'volition' absolutely free and uninfluenced or is 'it' caused and created by some thing else?

If 'mind' is a substance, then it is part of 'cause and effect', and if 'volition' is caused by the 'irreducible substance mind' thingy, then 'volition' is actually just another part of 'cause and effect'.
bahman wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:55 am
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.

Virtual particles.
Virtual particles are caused by computer programs. They are caused.
Not at all. They are part of the reality. You might like to read this.
So, if they are part of the so-called 'reality', then they 'pop into existence' EXACTLY like EVERY thing else does.

The reason 'you', human beings, do NOT SEE and RECOGNIZE this Fact is the EXACT SAME reason 'you' do NOT RECOGNIZE and SEE ALL of the other ACTUAL and IRREFUTABLE Truths, and thus Facts in Life. And, that is; because 'you' only LOOK AT and thus SEE 'things' from the human beings' perspective ONLY.
bahman wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:55 am
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm

I agree.
Then you have contradicted yourself once again.
Not when choice matters. Otherwise, things are fully deterministic.
But ALL choices can only be based upon deterministic factors anyway, obviously.
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bahman wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:55 am
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:29 pm Hormones and brain states are deterministic. Volition is not.
What causes volition?
The volition is caused by the mind, the mind being an irreducible substance.
Tut tut.
What nonsense. How do people change their minds?
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm
Poping into existence is possible, of course not in the case of humans.

Virtual particles.
Virtual particles are caused by computer programs. They are caused.
Not at all. They are part of the reality. You might like to read this.
DO not link thinhs that you cannot understand.
It makes you look even more stupid.
Sculptor wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:59 pm

I agree.
Then you have contradicted yourself once again.
Not when choice matters. Otherwise, things are fully deterministic.
What makes you say that?
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Age wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:26 am
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:10 am

It only APPEARS as "nonsense" to those who do NOT even attempt to GAIN CLARITY.

Because, OF COURSE, if and when CLARITY is GAINED that what WAS once considered "nonsense" can only then BEGIN to makes sense.

By the way, what part of what I said here do you consider is "my nonsense"?
That our universe is eternal and infinite.
But I have NEVER said that, and, by the way, I NEVER would say that.

I suggest that, from now on, you read the ACTUAL words that I say and write, and just use them ALONE.

That way you will NOT be SO Wrong regards your ASSUMPTION, as OFTEN as you are here.
So you don't think that the universe is infinite and eternal. If not, it is finite and has a beginning.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
WHY?

If thee One and ONLY Universe is contingent or NOT, then a discussion about whether thee One and ONLY Universe began or NOT could be VERY ON TOPIC.
No. The fact that the universe has a beginning has nothing to do with contingency.
What are you basing this so-called "fact" on, EXACTLY?
Contingency has nothing to do with the beginning of the universe.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm So, to you, there was a beginning to the Universe, correct, or 'a beginning' to some thing else? And, if it was the latter, then what was that 'thing', EXACTLY?

Is there 'A God' to you?

If yes, then WHERE is this God in relation to thee Universe, Itself? And what, EXACTLY, did this God create, EXACTLY?
I said there is no God.
But, to you, there are 'minds' that create 'things' correct?

If this is correct, to you, and the Universe began, then what, EXACTLY, made the Universe begin?
Mind creates Qualia and not the whole universe.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm Of which, to you, there are MANY.

Like, there are "minds", which 'you', human beings, have and use BUT which, contradictory, CONTROL 'you' AS WELL. And, there are, to you again, "minds", which exist within ALL objects, and then there is that all-knowing, all-powerful, all-etc, simply the creator "mind", which may or may not have caused or created 'the beginning' of the Universe. Which, to you, is NOT Everything.
I never said that there is a mind or minds who created the beginning.
But ALL them just simply create, correct?
They create Qualia but they are not God, the creator of beginning.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm
bahman wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:06 pm
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm So, because 'you' "have a thread" on a particular topic, then this MEANS 100% that WHATEVER "bahman" writes in that thread IS IRREFUTABLY True, Right, AND Correct, correct?

In other words, if "bahman" writes "a thread", then what 'you' write can NOT be False, Wrong, NOR Incorrect, correct?
I just meant that I don't think that there is a creator of everything out of nothing. Whether this is true or not is the subject to another thread so it is off-topic.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm What "other" attributes?

The ones 'you', "bahman", gives, or the ones that "immanuel can" gives, or the ones "veritas aequitas" gives, and provides?

Also, does whatever attributes 'you', human beings, give to what God is, MEAN that that is what God is, EXACTLY?
Other attributes like changeless, omnipresent, all-loving, etc. This is however off-topic so please don't ask further questions.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm

MORE PROOF of WHEN one is NOT ABLE to respond NOR answer when they are are CHALLENGED or QUESTIONED on THEIR CLAIMS.
Off-topic.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm

YET you just got through CLAIMING that there is "a mind" which is a "she" or a "he", and that "he" or "she" KNOWS EVERY thing.

But now you want to CLAIM that 'Mind' does NOT have a gender, but people may or may not have a gender.

Do you reckon that just ONCE when I CHALLENGE you or ask you a QUESTION for CLARITY that you will be ABLE to PROVIDE some sort of CLARITY instead of just making things FAR MORE NONSENSICAL or CONVOLUTED?
As I said mind does not have gender but the person has. This is however off-topic.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:54 pm

Okay. So, WHY did 'you' bring up this off-topic 'thing', in the first place?
My fault.
Age wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 12:16 am


And is this all you could REALLY say.

After all I just POINTED OUT and SHOWED some of the parts of what you say that do NOT make sense and ARE ILLOGICAL, to me.
There are many things that we discuss in this thread that are off-topic. Including this one.
This does not take away from the Fact that you have absolutely NO evidence AT ALL for your CLAIMS here, let alone have ANY ACTUAL PROOF. Nor, from just how much illogical nonsense you CLAIM here while 'trying' your hardest to back up and support those False, Wrong, and Incorrect CLAIMS of yours.

Besides this if you think discussing the Universe and how It exists and/or where It came from is "off topic" in a thread and topic about the 'Universe being contingent', then I think you will find that you are sadly very mistaken.
Off-topic.
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