So it's guilt by association.
I thought the "never read the comments section" rule could be safely ignored on that post, since comments were turned off. After following two of the pingbacks, I wanted to throttle two separate people and demand of them the ten minutes of my life that they wasted.
Lesson learned: Never read the comments section. No exceptions.
Never read the comments section. No exceptions.
... says a post in a comments section
They can't be. Their thoughts are genetic. If one Superhappy attempted to lie to another, the other would read the lie, the intent to lie, the reason to lie, and the truth all in the same breath off the same allele. They don't have separate models of their minds to be deceived as humans do. They share parts of their actual minds. Lying would be literally unthinkable. They have no way to actually generate such a thought, because their thoughts are not abstractions but physical objects to be passed around like Mendelian marbles.
... assuming they aren't lying about how their biology works
Given my current mental capacities, I think that any "proof" of God would be more easily attributed to hallucination. However, it should still be possible for God to prove His existence. If He is omnipotent, then he can increase my mental capacity to the extent that I can distinguish between divine intervention and a hallucination of divine intervention.
But what if you're hallucinating the increase in mental capacity and resulting discernment?
Nominull : there may exist more than one completely accurate description of the universe, i.e accounting for all known, or even possible observations that can be made about this universe. These descriptions may be mutually exclusive. Which is true then ? Which is most likely to be true ? Historically, compare epicycles to heliocentrism. Think about Kolmogorov complexity, and occam's razor.
I was reading "accurate" as "describes what is true", not "describes what is observed".
TAWME, but I'm not sure if it is a consciously learned introspective behavior or something that I just picked up or developed without effort. FWIW I've only really noticed and acted on it for the last year or two.
What does "TAWME" mean?
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Assuming souls exist, what's the difference between a brain tumor and an evil soul in terms of who "deserves" suffering (disregarding the argument that they deserve suffering because God said so)? At the moment of birth, neither one is chosen by the agent. If anyone was born with the same genetics, environment, and soul, they would make the same decisions throughout life.
Therefore, even if souls exist, that doesn't change any conclusions about consequentialist versus retributive justice IMO.