hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 14 October 2015 06:59:23PM -1 points [-]

It's not so much that it's easily flicked as that it has less moving parts; flicking it requires adjusting one thing as opposed to many things.

Your initial puzzling definition of what you believed had two parts ("omnipotent and omniscient"). You quickly added that you attributed many other traits to God, but were less certain of them (!) and thus presumably could change them more easily.

Are you saying that the whole set of claims has a common cause and they are therefore likely to go together?

Comment author: CCC 15 October 2015 09:56:24AM 0 points [-]

Your initial puzzling definition of what you believed had two parts ("omnipotent and omniscient"). You quickly added that you attributed many other traits to God, but were less certain of them (!) and thus presumably could change them more easily.

Yes, that is correct.

Are you saying that the whole set of claims has a common cause and they are therefore likely to go together?

No. In the grandparent post here, I'm talking about (what I understand is) the average person's idea of God. I recognise that my conception is not average, and some debate with other people has convinced me that a lot of people have far more complicated ideas of what God is, with far more moving parts.