Baxter Williams

@waldenpod @NoblestCalling It's tough. We thought we would have 2 kids by now. We've been trying for 3 years. I'm sorry you've gone through this as well. I'm looking forward to being a parent one day, and I'm confident we will be, biologically or otherwise.

@BaxterWilliams_ @NoblestCalling We had a miscarriage before our daughter, and we almost lost her too. It’s really hard to go through, I’m sorry to hear that.

How on earth does this have 100k likes. I don’t know one mother who would object to this

@NoblestCalling @waldenpod We've had two miscarriages so far.

@BaxterWilliams_ @waldenpod Do you have kids yet?

@Trey_Explainer @kamatsu8 It was created as a complementarian knee-jerk reaction. It used outdated translations of gendered terms on purpose b/c they thought clear translations were a feminist conspiracy. It was big drama in the 90s, summarize in this vid starting at 15:00. youtu.be/egJhj-T-Up8?si…

@kamatsu8 In what way?

My parents bought this for me a few years ago and it's kind of funny to read a copy of the Bible that is almost ashamed that it is the Bible

@limitandmind I should say *phenomenal* consciousness, of course

@limitandmind "aetherism", as Draper calls it, explains this, and the eliminative materialistic evolution is not a sufficient explanation because it doesn't explain consciousness.

Street's Dilemma for Evolutionary Moral Realism 1. Our judgments have been heavily shaped by evolution. We're disposed to value survival, kin, cooperation, etc. 2. The evolutionary moral realist must explain the relation between these evolutionary forces and the supposed mind-independent moral truths. Two options: - No relation: Then it would be a massive coincidence if our evolved judgments tracked the independent truths. We should expect our morality to be mostly off-target. - Tracking relation: The realist claims evolution selected for judgments because they tracked the moral truths. But this is scientifically worse than the rival explanation: evolution selected those judgments simply because they promoted reproductive fitness.

@dan_de_cath Depends on what you mean by "real people"? Are all the people in the genealogies of Jesus real people? Are their reported ages real ages?

So I’m not a biblical literalist, but Adam and Eve were absolutely real people, right??

@antitheistdad depends on how you define God

In the case of God, is the absence of evidence evidence of absence? 🤔

@Kurlyfries35 @HammerTimeLays Gambling rots brains

@HammerTimeLays Bro said “ fanduel employee “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Harper running out back to the bench and then all of a sudden a Fanduel employee tells him to get back into the locker room He’s now out for the rest of the game

@AStrasser116 There are other subtleties to my understanding but I've made a long enough thread.

@AStrasser116 Based on what I have heard about the variation in bodies and mental abilities, I suspect the mental at minimum directs attention and contains within it a value function. It uses value to permit some thoughts to come to fruition and prevent others.

Does the question of the soul ever play a role in people's deconversion stories? I feel like the soul was something of a purely religious concept that I was never given evidence for in a religious context (then I discovered the philosophy of mind)

@AStrasser116 Oh, I see. I'm sure their are some people like that who become convinced of the arguments for eliminative materialism, russelian monism, or panpsychism, and end up rejecting the traditional dualistic soul during their deconversion.

@BaxterWilliams_ Idk I hear you know why did God kill a bunch of people or Bible unreliable or just arguments for God bad + problem of evil kind of things and not sure I've ever heard a "What the heck is this soul crap" -> deconversation story before, which I find a little surprising maybe?

@AStrasser116 I wouldn't say that my dualistic tendencies played much of a role in my deconversion. I'm not sure what your question is about there, though.

@AStrasser116 Whereas I believe that memories are stored in the material brain.