Jon Steingard
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Jon Steingard
@jonsteingard
in search of the objectively good life
Nashville / Nosara Katılım Şubat 2009
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If there is no God, there is no objective morality. There is only preference.
Your preference against murder is no more valid than a murderer's preference for it.
Atheism cannot answer the "why" of morality.
Only God can.
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Why can we move through space freely but not through time?
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@SpeedWatkins For me it always comes back to “salvation from what?” A perfect being would be able to create virtuous creatures and would prefer doing so over creating less virtuous creatures. In a universe created by a perfect God populated by virtuous creatures, what would there be to fear?
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If we could not have freely chosen our own characters, then it is unjust for God to withhold anyone's salvation. If our free choices are events located in space and time, then they are either fully causally determined or were partly random.
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@SpeedWatkins @dan_djsr What would people created by a perfectly good God need to be saved from?
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@dan_djsr A perfectly good God always does what is optimally best. Saving everyone, if possible, is optimally better than only saving some. Therefore, if possible, a perfectly good God saves everyone and not just some.
Q.E.D.
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You'll have to prove the claim that perfect goodness requires universal salvation.
Benjamin Blake Speed Watkins 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@SpeedWatkins
If God is perfectly good, He would desire to save everyone. If He is all-powerful, He would be able to do so. If both are true, everyone would be saved. Since not everyone is saved, either God lacks power, lacks goodness, or does not exist. Choose wisely.
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AI-generated content sometimes feels soulless. But AI-assisted processes? That's where things get interesting. The future isn't necessarily human vs. AI — it may be human products, AI processes.
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ChatGPT is your therapist. Gemini is your researcher. Claude is your builder. I use all three, but if you want actual superpowers? Claude Code is the one changing my life right now.
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@aigkenham Honestly impressed with how you commit to the bit
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I had zero coding experience. In one week I built multiple Airbnb booking sites, a website for a web agency, and an entire social media app. We are absolutely cooked (in the best way).
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@jonsteingard Jon! Been too long, my friend. Love hearing you weigh in.
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QUESTION: What is the most difficult feature of reality for materialism (physicalism) to explain?
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@elonmusk I mean it's probably accurate as far as number of users goes
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Claude code is the most incredible tool I've ever experienced. I just vibe coded a system that checks a specific apple note for a grocery list every 4 days (we can add items as we think of them), finds the right items, places the order for delivery. Confirmation via whatsapp. 🤯
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Thank you so much for all the photos of damage from this ice storm. When you send them please include #tspotter and most importantly include your location and the nearst cross streets or landmark. Stay warm!
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@LonghornJoker Can you really be a materialist and not an atheist?
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Atheism and materialism are not synonymous. You can be an atheist and not a materialist and a materialist but not an atheist.
Jakob Ziguras@noonessleep
There is an important sense in which materialism and atheism can tend to insulate their adherents from the insights necessary to see beyond these positions, because they shape mental habits that incline people to look for the wrong sort of counter-evidence.
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