Why does God allow bad things and suffering?

Why does God allow bad things and suffering? Jun 13, 2017 11:47:42 GMT

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Post by cupcakes on Jun 13, 2017 11:47:42 GMT

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@miccee said: We don't contribute to the process; our brain processes inputs and produces the only output it can from those strands of input. Or if the output is random due to quantum mechanics, then that also isn't attributable to 'free will'.

Or "antinatalism goood" and "religion baaad" and really really wanting doesn't make it disappear. Processing is both active and overtly committed action, intentional in this case. Your incredulity and inability/resolved refusal to envisage without dualism and religion doesn't make your doctrinal pronouncements and overstatements here any less dopey than your other gross irrationalities, including "no humans no society" being a desired "fairest state of affairs for society", or of the form I can't change any outcome one whit no matter what I choose and what effort I expend, so I'm going to try extra hard.

We make choices and act based on our preferences and traits. That's free will.

We are intentional creatures that that do things because we wanna - at least until somebody actually comes anywhere near to showing otherwise, frantic waves and hard-leaning manifestos excluded.

But we can't direct ourselves to think any thoughts other than the ones that we are predetermined to think.

And you can't blink yourself into a fairy princess, also irrelevant to free will. Whether with or without your "predetermined" overwork/lean.

And of course dualism doesn't solve anything, because it leads to an infinite regress.

Your demand for it does however spotlight your inability to see good in humans w/o religion and significance w/o supernatural.

That is why 'free will' in anything other than the compatibilist sense is logically impossible.

You are in fact so rigidly constrained by your and a lack of perspicacity/coherency that you need to project it species-wide, if not even more so by your dogma and the concomitant willingness to tendentiously ever pronounce as so what you cannot know.

Can neuroscience understand Donkey Kong?