Unbelievable.attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:12 amCorrect.iambiguous wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:58 pmRight. So, this part...attofishpi wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:07 am There is only one type of evil, and that is wo/man inflicting evil to other sentient beings (animals, wo/men, children)
"...an endless procession of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and tornadoes and hurricanes and great floods and great droughts and great fires and deadly viral and bacterial plagues and miscarriages and hundreds and hundreds of medical and mental afflictions and extinction events...making life on Earth a living hell for countless millions of men, women and children down through the ages"
...is not evil
Note below: "God has limits to suffering, such that what we witness to others' suffering is not always to the case - in the extremes - that God can take ones soul - in the case of an Earthquake, Volcano, Flood - PRIOR to great suffering - OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH - in your case NONE!!"
Oh, I for one can account that IT works in mysterious ways. Understand this:- God has created Earth, a place with much imperfection, allowing us humans to have much to learn about to correct the imperfections. This IS a type of perfection since intelligence beings WE humans, need reason to learn. Therefore, we can study the humans anatomy and the depths of biology to counter viruses, we can learn about plate tectonics, indeed, we can learn about everything forever hoping to create perfection. Imagine a "heaven" where there was no imperfection, no reason to learn to conquer etc..we would be bored out of our minds! You state God as loving and merciful..well understand this, God has limits to suffering, such that what we witness to others' suffering is not always to the case - in the extremes - that God can take ones soul - in the case of an Earthquake, Volcano, Flood - PRIOR to great suffering - OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH - in your case NONE!!iambiguous wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:58 pm.. because the loving, just and merciful God that creates the conditions that sustains them century after century after century after century works in "mysterious ways" far beyond the grasp of mere mortals.
What suffering? Re-read my above statement, and I have suffered MORE THAN ANYONE I KNOW...at the hands of this "merciful God'!! So fuck u with your 'sardonic' witlessness!! lol. Yeah, I did not mention and include God in my statement about evil - IT does have another side to it for those that want to comprehend the Tree of Know_Ledge.iambiguous wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:58 pmAnd my own, at times, sardonic reaction to those here able to swallow that hook, line and sinker revolves mostly around the fact that I want God to exist. If only that there be an explanation for this terrible, terrible human suffering. After all, in a No God world these ghastly things are but the "brute facticity" of an essentially meaningless and purposeless human existence.
Right?
I have gnosis and am beyone mere belief, thus I scoff at most people.iambiguous wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:58 pmAnd, in part, I scoff at the True Believers here not because they believe what they do, but because they are unable to convince me to believe it as well.
I have provided you with enough evidence to prove Beyone a Reasonable DO_U_BT that a 3rd party intelligence/God is behind the construct to reality, here:-
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This sort of ridiculous "assessment" is basically what one comes to expect now over at the New ILP. But it still boggles my mind to find it in a forum that is derived from Philosophy Now magazine.
This is the sort of "argument" one would expect to come upon in church or around the family dinner table at, say, the Mike Pence or the Amy Coney Barrett household.
But here?!