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What is necessary to nominate as an atheist? Nothing, right?You are confusing what isn't necessary to nominate as an atheist ...
A materialist would differ. Free will is outside the natural order discoverable by science. So, the atheist must chuck this simple self-evident fact with an endlessly complex explanation of randomly firing neurons, shifting pathways of interconnectivity, a mindless social alchemy in which we are lived rather than live.Whether we have free will or not doesn't affect my opinion on the supernatural.
You must have read the op.Freewill is : Choice
A lack of a belief in gods. I don't know why you asked. You knew that already.What is necessary to nominate as an atheist?
It would be better if you addressed what I say rather than what you'd prefer to discuss. They are rarely the same.A materialist would differ.
So, to identify as an atheist, nothing ie., a lack of anything, is all that is necessary. Thanks for confirming that void for me.A lack of a belief in gods.
If this thread is just about your opinions then you do not have to justify how you feel. You should have prefaced the OP as an op-ed piece.My opinion on the supernatural was already decided. Decades ago. My position on free will quite recently. I don't need the latter to justify the former.
The question is whether those decisions are determined.
If you have reached the decision that gods do not exist then you can announce that fact to associate yourself with the term 'atheist'. It's quite a journey and not to be taken lightly.So, to identify as an atheist, nothing ie., a lack of anything, is all that is necessary.
My opinion (and it's only my opinion) on free will was stated as a means to kick start the thread. Your opinions are also welcome. You should offer some on the matter rather than discussing me.If this thread is just about your opinions...
The decisions you choose and the choices you make...well, they are pretty much the same thing. The reasons why you choose those decisions, the reasons why you make those choices will vary. They will be determined by who you are, what you believe, where you were born...the list is endless.Your decisions are determined by your choice.
Some people would then say that it must have been determined. Do you think so?And God "fore-knew" what you would "choose' because God knows your thoughts and the intent of YOUR Heart.
The decisions you choose and the choices you make...
Some people would then say that it must have been determined. Do you think so?
I don't believe in God. But if I did then I'd agree with you.Correct.
YOU chose them.. not God.
And ive never me anyone yet, who is owned by this mental darkness who can understand that God KNOWING all, is not the same as God CAUSING it all.
Close. But you have it the wrong way around. What you decide to do is determined. Just think of any decision you have made. Was there a reason for making it? Unless it was random then the reason, by definition, was why you made it. It was determined by that reason.Its determined by what you decided to do.
I don't believe in God. But if I did then I'd agree with you.
Close. But you have it the wrong way around. What you decide to do is determined.
Unless you can give me an example of a decision that you've made that wasn't random and was made for no reason at all?
You've just posted a reply to a question I wanted you to answer. I'm going to consider it because you replied. Your response was the reason why I clicked on your reply and why I am now responding. I wouldn't have done that - I couldn't have done that, if you hadn't replied. The one led to the other. I made the choice (no free will doesn't exclude making choices) but it was determined by your response.I can give you one. You are going to read what im posting, and consider it. I didnt do that for you, and nobody caused that to happen.
You've just posted a reply to a question I wanted you to answer. I'm going to consider it because you replied. Your response was the reason why I clicked on your reply and why I am now responding.
(no free will doesn't exclude making choices) but it was determined by your response.
You can try again if you like.
Now think of all the reasons why you came to make that decision. You gave two. There are countless others that you can give. All of which determined that you are going to watch a specific movie at a particular time in a particular place.Im going to go and watch a B&W movie starring Jean Authur.
I watched one yesterday, and also read a part of a Biography on Her life.
Should Calle have been 'value'?Does this question and thread have any practical Calle? We still must make decisions.
I find the older I get the more I appreciate the effects of circumstances and conditioning on a persons choices. I dont have to go full determinism to arrive at a sort of compassion pretty close to what you describe. Problem is, full determinism leave zero room to attribute any portion of a persons choices to their self - as there was no real opportunity to make a choice.And I live my life as if it exists as well. The mental gymnastics are just too hard to be doing continuously. But...it can impact on your life. I can argue against retributive punishment for example. If someone does me wrong then I can look for reasons why it happened and not automatically blame the person involved. It's kinda easier to forgive people some times.
Yeah, even if we all have some kernel of free will operating, it can be easily overwhelmed by involuntary circumstances as strong as mental illness. Free will fans should recognize this.There were a few people stabbed to death last week in a shopping mall close to where I live. He was shot to death by a policewoman who was close by when it happened. He stabbed mostly women and even a small baby who was lucky to survive. The baby's mother didn't. And people were saying that shooting him was too easy a punishment. He was evil incarnate to do something like that. But I found I was suggesting that people don't do these things normally, that there obviously was something mentally wrong with the guy.
And it turns out that he did have mental health problems. No real surprise. Did they cause him to do what he did? Undoubtedly. Was he responsible for having those problems? Obviously not. So to what degree was he culpable?
Not sure I understand this.And don't forget. Making a choice doesn't equate to free will.
You chose that movie for.... reasons, right?....
Im going to go and watch a B&W movie starring Jean Authur.
I watched one yesterday, and also read a part of a Biography on Her life.
This was not pre-chosen for me to do.....
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