Justin Schieber

One of Inspiring Philosophy’s objections to the argument from divine hiddenness relies on a deep misunderstanding of the argument. I offer correction here: youtu.be/breS8JOHBi8?si…

Deleting this app for a while.

@shitposteriori @NaMesoAtta @darkseavoyage I’ll do anything for Mexican cuisine.

@justinschiebs @NaMesoAtta @darkseavoyage Remember when we stuffed you in the trunk of a car in Oklahoma

The world if I could make myself enjoy playing video games again

@shitposteriori @NaMesoAtta @darkseavoyage I usually burn out after a few weeks when I try playing. but I’ve been Addicted to dayz for months now.

@NaMesoAtta @darkseavoyage It was so awesome being an 11 yr old smashing people’s faces into tables and desperately convincing my mom that sleeping dogs was age appropriate

@doofgeek4011 It also gives explicit permission for engaging in the practice. That’s a step beyond merely assuming and regulating.

...assumes and regulates slavery without abolishing it, while simultaneously embedding values that later traditions would use to challenge it.

Here is a thread on what the vast majority of critical biblical scholars and historians agree on regarding slavery in the Bible, stated carefully and without polemics.🧵

@AlchemistNon @CounterApologis @BanjoAtheist Also true

My sophisticated and thoughtful Christian friends might turn their intellectual noses up at this. But I don’t think they should.

@CounterApologis @AlchemistNon @BanjoAtheist To be fair, testimony is pretty much the only support any of us have for the most secure scientific claims as well.

@AlchemistNon @BanjoAtheist I've had similar thoughts. youtu.be/obq8NwRM9XU?si…

@wendelltalks @imagnoreligion Wondering if you’ll address Randal’s reply.

@imagnoreligion Terrorizing a tiny, poor rural Virginia school district with lawyers is not a heroic act of defending the constitution, its peak petty tyranny.

Imagine being proud of bullying a Virginia elementary school into painting over Philippians 4:13, your censorship and hatred of the Bible has placed you on the same level as Kim Jong-Un.

@AndrewJRParker I think it’s fine if you don’t want to interact with the argument. I’m not trying to force it on anyone. I’m just not seeing how this is relevant to somebody interested in assessing the argument on its own merits.

@justinschiebs This video of Bill W describing his mystical encounter is worth watching & listening to. Go to 21:44 minutes in. My own story - and my continued scepticism for years - is also relevant here, which I would be happy to discuss in private. youtube.com/watch?v=nNBkgS…

On breaking Divine hiddenness... @justinschiebs

@AndrewJRParker That’s a very human move to make if you feel certain that God exists already. But you should know that this isn’t interacting with the argument. It’s merely bypassing it.

The starting point is not an assumption that God exists. In the example of the OP, Bill Wilson was atheist prior to his life-changing encounter. Same with many other examples. Sometimes we only find out our arguments are unsound AFTER receiving a brute experience. E.g. opening the fridge door to see there is, in fact, milk there, after arguing (on reasonable grounds) that there is no milk. Sometimes (in life) it is a certain form of action that reveals reality to us rather than an analytical argument.

@AndrewJRParker I don’t see how it could change anything unless you’re working under the assumption that God exists and so therefore the philosophical hiddenness problem is unsound. But that’s not very illuminating. It’s just bypassing the arg.

@justinschiebs More the existential problem, i.e. how hiddenness actually becomes broken for individuals in their lives. But when hiddenness is broken (ie. a life changing divine encounter, that withstands critical reason) it changes the way we think about the philosophical problem.

@AStrasser116 @DavidReilly007 I don’t know why but I found this reply genuinely funny.

@DavidReilly007 In this moment, are you euphoric?

For a good rejoinder to this (and other objections to Hiddenness) be sure to check out the series on J.L. Schellenberg's Hiddeness argument by @justinschiebs here: youtube.com/watch?v=breS8J…

@Eli_Kunkel @RealAtheology What is their best offered response to the DH arg?

@RealAtheology @justinschiebs I’ve seen this video. Generally speaking, I’d agree. The two books I cited, however, do specifically engage with Shellenberg’s work — would recommend checking them out.

Stepping on cracks in sidewalks leading cause in heart disease according to RFK Jr.

I can't wait until the Republicans are back in power again, so we can finally get some answers.

@PAHoyeck So bizarre how this film has divided opinions. I adored it. I thought it fantastic.

Yeah, this confirms it for me. Paul Thomas Anderson is way overrated.

@shitposteriori @PAHoyeck @RobinsonSpelMI See it. So damn good.

@PAHoyeck @RobinsonSpelMI haven't seen this one yet but i mean yeah the best pta movies are absolutely better than some of the lower tier scorseses

Mormons are currently donating money to the family of the guy who burned down their church and killed Mormons

@NathanBozeman2 My arg doesn’t need to take a stand on this particular q. It’s an undercutting defeater, disrupting the notion that all core western values come from xianity because as supporting the worship of other gods - by state or otherwise - is contrary to such preaching and commandments.

@justinschiebs What would the alternative be? I am not trying to misrepresent you, but isn't this a true dichotomy: Christians should not use the state to enforce Christianity, or they should? Is there a middle way that I am missing?

Reposting because it's absolutely based and true. I look forward to the day that abortion is viewed like all of the other atrocities we have overcome because of distinctly Christian values.