@heuristics@Philip_Goff Methinks whether there needs to be a necessary being and/or if this necessary being is best described as God is what’s in dispute here. If no necessary Being exists, it follows that it is impossible for said Being to exist, for with necessary Being, possibility is actuality.
@BayouPhilosophy Always found him ponderous. His influence and reverence for his ideas have always been mysterious to me. And, sorry, if a lion could speak we’d have to be able to understand him.
@davidbeadle Everything happens for a reason, even (temporary) shame and embarrassment. It’s good for the prideful to be embarrassed by themselves. Brings them closer to Truth.
@TrueFreedomOrg@Philip_Goff Lots of concepts have 0 predictive power and you can still be an expert. Does abstract math have “predictive power?” Not in any empirical sense. But you can be an expert on Fermat’s Last Theorem or what have you. With free will, you can be an expert on the conceptual landscape.
@johnmilbank3 The more the supernatural order comes into the light of understanding the more nature, and the human world in particular, seems mystically and hyperstitiously determined by this ordering telos, like a great but retroactively hyper-sensible twist at the end of good movie.