John Raines

@dwcongdon It was truly masterful. When you have the time, check out Kurzel's 2015 Macbeth with Fassbender and Cotillard. I've worked with the cinematographer, Arkapaw, and he shot it so incredibly well. Way different than Coen's though to say the least!

@rbnmckenna86 I’m really interested in reading this. Thank you!

@DanKoch @FilipinoBear science. Caused behaviors outside our control are understood through a reconceptualization of the unconscious in combination with prewired neural plasticity and genetic influence. A theologian with a good grasp of cognitive psychology could articulate this very well. 2

@DanKoch @FilipinoBear A problem you’ll run into is that behaviorism is largely rejected by modern psychology, having been replaced in the course of the cognitive revolution. You might have better chances of finding someone arguing in favor of “judge not” as supported by the deliverances of cognitive 1

Anyone familiar with a paper, essay, book, or article where a Christian psychologist argues that a behaviorist lens or behavioral theory provides a robust grounding for "judge not"? If all behaviors are caused and only some of those causes are in our control... you get it.

@sjggraham Oh you'll certainly enjoy it. I have a digital copy I could send you if you'd like to add it to your library immediately.

@johncraines Never have... I'll add it to my list!

Theists: the best book arguing for the existence of God is......?

@cecilymwhiteley @lastpositivist Sometimes it IS thought to be circular. Williamson for example explicitly embraces the safety condition as circular. But others, like Pritchard, do indeed try to formulate the condition in a non-circular way. W's Anti-Luminosity chapter in Knowledge & its Limits is great on this.

Q for my lovely epistemologist colleagues: why is the safety condition on knowledge not thought to be circular (why does the modal account not pre-suppose knowledge e.g. of closeness of possible worlds?). Or is this just my internalist intuitions talking?

@DanKoch I'm oddly enough halfway through The Predicament of Belief right now. Been great.

Today’s You Have Permission is one of my all time favorite episodes

@margejacobsen Oh Marge, you were always so easy to love. It’s an honor to have shown you kindness, and I sincerely wish the very best for you.

It took me forever to track you down @johncraines :) This popped up on my Facebook memories, thanks for always being so loving and kind

@taddelay Excellent. Really look forward to it.

@taddelay Is this paper written? Where can we read it? Very interesting thesis.

@jph_anderson DO IT

If I recorded myself reading just the notes I made while playing the Witcher games it would be the longest video on the channel.

@jph_anderson Sekiro obviously, but Death Stranding shall overtake it. Link's Awakening may even do so.

We're halfway through 2019. What's your favorite game of the year so far, and do you think an upcoming game could top it?

@DeanDettloff youtube.com/watch?v=3SedEM… You're entirely right. This is currently my favorite cover.

@lllogansays Great work on this thread. Always love some proper syntactic analysis and translational insights. More reasons still why I wish Paul was a more universally recognized intellectual instead being relegated mostly to religious studies.

@ErikMKort Oh no I had finished thank you! We're in perfect agreement as I too was referencing Acts. Modern Christians can misapply this quick transformation to their own leaders, whereas the author of Acts was just compressing time like many authors of his day to get his point across.

@johncraines At the risk of interrupting you, I'm talking more about the mythology of the Saul/Paul change and less the Biblical (or "actual") reality of it. For what it's worth, this fast reading is gotten straight from Acts, which is a tension within the New Testament - one few look at.

Christians - and humans - have a Saul Problem. You remember him, don't you? Acts introduces us as a "young man" who held the coats for men who were busy stoning Stephen to death.

@ErikMKort One reason why the change is so dramatic is that there’s decades of transformation compressed into a couple chapters in order to communicate the author’s point. No one should transform like this in 3 days, but neither did Paul. 3

@ErikMKort The Paul at the end of all this, over 20 years after conversion, is the Paul Luke had in mind literarily while writing Acts, itself written 20 years after Paul’s death. 2

@DanKoch @_danielrosado @ReconstructPod Nothing changes. I am more or less in possession of those assumptions. There aren't any cars or driveways without minds. I think we perhaps agree, therefore!

@johncraines @_danielrosado @ReconstructPod But one last question: if idealism is true, and not any kind of materialism, then what changes? If there is no "car" and "driveway" without mind...

There are certainly plenty of Christian Panentheists, including Philip Clayton (upcoming #YouHavePermission guest!). I myself am quite open to the view, and yeah it's a Process trajectory.