Comments on: Answer to Job

By: Jesse M.

Jesse M. — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 03:46:49 +0000

@szopeno “Rates for STD are something like thirty to forty times higher for homosexual males. ”

You don’t cite any source for this factoid, but the study at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6893897 suggests you’re badly mistaken–for example, homosexual men are about 1.5 times as likely as heterosexual men to have early syphilis and about 3.2 times more likely to have gonorrhea, but on the other hand heterosexual men are 3.9 times more likely than homosexual men to have genital herpes, and 4 times as likely to have genital warts, among the various examples listed (none involve a disparity of anything close to 30-40, in either direction).

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By: darxan

darxan — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:47:47 +0000

It’s possible to always have net positive future yet have zero net life.

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By: fwhagdsd

fwhagdsd — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:39:47 +0000

Stroppy is a British/Aus/NZ word.

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By: Airgap

Airgap — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:57:10 +0000

YHBT

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By: Irrelevant

Irrelevant — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:08:40 +0000

Nothing to think on there, universes don’t exist in a time sequence with each other.

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By: david freemont mccready

david freemont mccready — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:25:36 +0000

Think on this… the Universe is in a state of multiples beyond our imagination. We as soul creatures are strung along from one universe to another like paper dolls hanging from an endless cord. As we pass away in one universe our soul will move on to the next paper doll – manifest in the new universe as commanded to exist.

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By: Marc Whipple

Marc Whipple — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:02:27 +0000

I have pretty much the same response HARLIE did to the question of sophisticated/internally consistent Theology.

“Okay, there are still some flaws. They’re working on it.”

“They’ve been working on it for two thousand years. Not impressed with your rate of progress.”

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By: Irrelevant

Irrelevant — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 05:13:15 +0000

So, pleasure and goodness converge at infinity? That’s an interesting thought, but I don’t see why we should treat it as fact. Infinity is a slippery concept, and I’ve only seen it behave well when applied to absolutely clear, formally defined mathematical objects, not nebulous ideas like “goodness”.

Yeah, you’re still holding out on omniscience. “Nebulousness of good” doesn’t apply here, because an omniscient entity understands every factor and their relative importances. If goodness is a real attribute that holds ultimate value, then an omniscient entity knows that it has ultimate value. If goodness is not a real attribute, but simply a description of relative preferability between options, then an omniscient entity also knows that, and has done all the calculations required to know which things are relatively preferable correctly and completely.

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By: Susebron

Susebron — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:31:57 +0000

Sophisticated Theology is usually pretty much pure logic (+textual analysis), though. In theory, perfect theology would be self-evident to anyone who actually understood it.

Whether such theology exists or not is left as an exercise for the reader.

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By: Nita

Nita — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:56:05 +0000

So, pleasure and goodness converge at infinity? That’s an interesting thought, but I don’t see why we should treat it as fact. Infinity is a slippery concept, and I’ve only seen it behave well when applied to absolutely clear, formally defined mathematical objects, not nebulous ideas like “goodness”.

[note: the next part might be rude to some worldviews, sorry]

Similarly, I think the only minds we can currently draw hard conclusions about are minds enacted by physical systems, such as brains or computers. An abstract, platonic mind is so underspecified that all our thinking about it is practically baseless speculation.

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