Baxter Williams
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Baxter Williams
@BaxterWilliams_
Ex-Christian pandeist. Still exploring Christianity out of fear of Jesus’s threat of eternal punishment and empathy for family agonized by the idea of me there.
Minnesota, USA Katılım Ağustos 2021
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@BaxterWilliams_ So....the pictures seem to line up pretty well from what I can tell?
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According to Socrates Scholasticus (380-429), on the left is the argument that Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, made against Arianism around 320AD.
According to Theodoret (393-457), on the right is what Arius argued, around the same time.
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My 2026 so far:
Jan: had a cancer scare, off work for 2 weeks
Feb: got shingles from stress, off work 2 more weeks
March: had 2k stolen from my bank account
I’m thankful the tumor was benign, the shingles weren’t worse, & I’m getting by.
But fuck, we’re only 3 months in 😭
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@GodsNode Because it's easy to build a model without the greenhouse effect and make a prediction that is different than the climate scientists. Then you can test which model predicts the future better.
You know, if predicting the future better interests you in anyway.
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@GodsNode So I presume your theory is that the greenhouse effect is a wrong theory?
Or is your theory that the greenhouse effect only works in a lab but doesn't happen at a bigger size like a planet?
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Sure, if Paul can't be wrong, then the Messiah will arrive on clouds of glory while humans are still alive.
But even if you think entertaining the possibility of extinction is a failure of your faith, you are still allowed to (and should) worry about mass human death
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GOP Rep. Mary Franson says she's not worried about climate change because it's not in the Bible: "If you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends, and it's not with climate change." How can we expect Republicans to do serious work when they're so proud about ignoring science?
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@GodsNode Have you made a better prediction about our climate than the climate scientists?
Are you interested in knowing the future of the climate?
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@GodsNode I just shared a prediction in 1988 that was accurate when compared to observations.
I personally call mathmatical modeling followed by testing the accuracy of the model through observation a form of science. By I don't care if you use the word different.
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@GodsNode I'm not going to argue over definitions with you. If you want, you can believe that no science has ever happened anywhere because of your definition of science.
I'm not interested in semantics.
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@SpeedWatkins not necessarily, but it depends on how you define God.
pantheism, pandeism, and mormon theology for example have God having a body.
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Theism posits a mind absent a body, an unembodied mental unity. But what sense can be made of a particular person that is not individuated by a body, or of intention fulfillment without any material mediation? We might as well speak of dawns without dusk or deaths without life.
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@GodsNode Well, whatever you call accurately predicting the future outcome of increased CO2. I don't really care what label you give it, but it involves hypotheses, mathmatical predictions, and observations.
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Because I'm sick of hearing these ignorant takes that no climate predictions come true, here is the oldest prediction I could find, made in 1988 by James Hansen. It predicted global warming until 2020 and was pretty damn spot on.
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@BaxterWilliams_ Agree she is speaking flippantly and overconfident.
Like climate change scientists. Its not science, you cant utilize the scientific process to confirm its likelihood.
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@GodsNode I think Paul is the only one that says it will happen while there are some alive who have not experienced death.
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@BaxterWilliams_ Paul didnt write Daniel, Matthew, Mark, Luke & Revelation which speaks Jesus coming in the clouds.
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Also, "God is able to raise up children to Abraham from stones" seems to me to allow room for a temporary extinction.
But don't let me get between you and however you feel compelled to interpret scripture.
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Believing that God wouldn't allow humans to harm crop cycles or food webs is dumb, dangerous thinking, not a proud display of faith.
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@waldenpod @matt_olma I suppose if you can conceive of epiphenomenalism then you can conceive of p-zombies.
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@matt_olma No, their conceivability means there’s no *conceptual* issue with physical behavior and no internal experience
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@BaxterWilliams_ The joke being you could have a hell of infinitely many times (moments of time), without it lasting an infinite amount of time.
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If you are Christian, the real question of import is whether it is morally permissible to not trust these stories once you hear them.
If you are not Christian, the real question of import is whether it is morally permissible for others to trust these stories.
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Becoming Christian is not only trusting tales of miracles & prophecies, but also trusting that our moral instincts are often wrong and yielding to the words of other humans and their interpretation by authorities.
The discussion of actual import is the morality of this trust.
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The Christian use of "pistis" is better translated as "trust" rather than "belief" so debating rational credences is often not relevant to being Christian.
Credences are only relevant if it is first established that trust in low-credence affairs is not morally permissible.
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