Recent content by elopez

Vote for my Rock band Handsome Pete to move onto the finals of a local battle of the bands. Not sure if promoting your music is allowed, but if it isn't I do apologize and obviously have noissue if it's deleted. https://poll.fbapp.io/2016-homegrown-throwdown-wildcard-voting?from=admin_wall

I think appealing to "nothingness" as an explanation for God without time is a shortcoming. I say that as a definition of what "nothing" is, is usually nonsensical. Even without the universe there still exists God, which is something. And you can't experiment as to support a hypothesis that...

Like I said I have no idea for sure, as in I cannot committ myself to a yes or no. Your definition of randomness that we have been talking about is on the microscopic scale. I also said randomness occurs on the macro scale in reference to superconductivity.

I thought you were saying that sense of randomness is true over the others. IDK. To me the uses of the terms 'random' are just epistemic, and relate to how much information we have. People say a coin toss is random yet if I were to know the force, its mass, etc., it may be possible to provide...

In the sense that you defined it, on the microscopic scale according to QM, sure.

Yeah, yet you won't go all the way to say it's a determined event. IDK. Maybe it's because you won't go as far as saying it's a determined event. Only some things are. Yet I really see no relevant difference between this and a determined event. There are past factors that result in future...

Not so fast. I chose this example for a reason. While you may have never are tacos because it is taco tuesday and they're half off, doesn't mean the event isn't influenced by past factors. It is, such as how tacos were always half off on Tuesday starting 10 years ago at said restaurant. Maybe...

Ignorance =/= New. Indeed, this is something I mentioned earlier. What foreknowledge deals with in terms of human agency is the nature of God's knowledge of future contingents, and what that implies. The reason causing the choice doesn't matter; it's a repeat as the experience is being...

Lol! :laughing: Yeah, but that's not exactly what I am saying. It would be more like if someone were to attempt to do the work presently, that was done in the 19th century by Lobachevsky. It wouldn't be anything "new" in any sense of the word, less you were to equivocate. What conditions would...

Well this is what I was inquring of "I can, for example, guess, predict, or create; I can invent an organization that has no corresponding experience." I asked of that statement: "Give an instance of say, something you can create which has no past corresponding experience" You went on to...

Perhaps it is not required of your view but I still do not think it can be neglected, either. Free will is about choices, and choices are related to desires. Right, and I'm not saying past experiences is the only factor. As I stated, environmental, psychological, hereditary. Just to name a few...

The question is an example of a loaded question. It is set up in the format of a yes-no question, though no matter which way we answer, yes or no, we become committed to the conclusion that God is not omnipotent - something we disagree with. The question traps the answerer with an unsupported...

Do you disregard the notion of desires all together? Explain. A desire is afterall a state of mind. Everyone has experienced a desire, whether you wanted to eat a taco to satisfy your hunger or make your wife happy by eating what she wants. Your abstractions do depend on your past experiences...

Well this isn't an easy question to answer. I would say there are many theories of desire, each bringing a shed of truth to the table. For instance, according to an action theory of desire, it is "to be disposed to take whatever actions it believes are likely to bring about p." Pleasure based...

What a one sided coin is, as far as I'm concerned, is to only consider one's own view and not the other. If that is what you mean, I don't see how you could really say that. I am inquiring of your view. I am asking sincere questions so I can further understand it. I'm just asking what...