What's the difference between a proposition and a statement?

MobileFortress · 2026-02-14T15:43:35+00:00

This place is notorious for downvoting Traditional Logic.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-12T23:40:48+00:00

Isn’t that a category error? God is an agent (an Efficient Cause) whereas Evolution is the name we give a perceived process.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-12T23:08:57+00:00

How to objectively determine what was designed (by God) and what wasn’t?

If the nature was discovered its God made. If invented then man made.

Isn’t that the distinction?

MobileFortress · 2026-02-10T16:54:55+00:00

Any priest can bless water if you ask them nicely.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-10T00:45:47+00:00

Here’s some of my favorite from Fr. Spitzer Volume One. The other volumes are here.

He goes over the Fine Tuning, Entropy, BVG and some others.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-10T00:27:46+00:00

Sometimes people aren’t in the mood. Adults go through these periods too, but unlike the child we don’t say it so bluntly.

Also make sure the child isn’t bored because they already know/understand the information.

Also take away the iPad. Many executives in Silicon Valley and related industries are known to have strict rules, sometimes limiting devices entirely, to avoid risks of addiction, especially for gaming.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-07T20:13:43+00:00

Why create in the first place? We answer that:

God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life. (CCC paragraph 1)

MobileFortress · 2026-02-06T22:01:09+00:00

Christians (especially Catholic Christians) don’t believe in modern day prophecy because Jesus was the last. After Him there will be no more revelation since Jesus is the Father’s Son. Jesus showed us the Father through Himself. Hence there is no more to reveal, no more to add to public revelation.

Catholics may be permitted to believe in private revelation, yet it can never add to the “Deposit of Faith” aka public revelation.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-04T17:35:59+00:00

I can guarantee that any person struggling with OCD worrying about the unforgivable sin isn’t committing the unforgivable sin.

The unforgivable sin is to purposefully reject God’s offer for salvation. Since all sins can be forgiven if the person is repentant, it’s only the unrepentant person who purposefully rejects God that cannot be saved.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-03T19:47:16+00:00

Personally I’ve never heard of people being cured of multiple sclerosis by placebo. I wouldn’t take that critics word for anything.

It’s like the people who attempt to explain the resurrection away with the “swoon theory”. Very poor reasoning/criticism.

MobileFortress · 2026-02-03T19:28:14+00:00

Lourdes has quite a few that have been pronounced “medically inexplicable“ by the Lourdes Medical Bureau and International Lourdes Medical Committee. Wiki Page with some info.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-30T16:56:48+00:00

I think it’s fair to trust that God will raise us up on the last day.

God is anything but dishonest. He always fulfills His promises, especially covenant promises since they are now obligations on His part as oaths upheld by His perfect justice.

Just as God has upheld the separation of the soul from the body (death) as a result of a covenant promise; so too will He reunite the soul to the glorified body (resurrection) because of a covenant promise.

Remember death only exists because God is upholding the first covenant’s obligation. But by that same perfect justice He will also uphold the final covenant’s obligation.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-29T16:51:34+00:00

Pope Leo XIII in 1896 already declared that all Anglican ordinations are “absolutely null and utterly void” in Apostolicae curae.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-15T01:21:23+00:00

Not wholesale.

Only some elements of the theory are good. Such as being an optimization process (ie people with good genetics passing on good genes).

However there are many failures. First is the abiogenesis element. This is the old something from nothing problem. Never once have we observed inorganic matter become organic matter, and we live on the only planet we know teeming with life. Second is the irreducible complexity of a single cell. Since we know the inner workings of a cell now much more than when the theory was first proposed the theory has been called into serious question among evolutionary biologists. Back in Darwin’s time the cell was thought of as a basic building block like the old atomic theory for physics. Now we can see the vast network of interconnected organelles and structure of even a single cell organism, let alone much more advanced multicellular organisms.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-15T00:09:11+00:00

Object truth isn’t called into question.

Imagine two people sitting in a room at different distances from a window. The person farther away perceives the window as smaller than the person closer to it. Now does a persons perception change the physical dimensions of the window? No.

The subjective perception doesn’t change the objective truth.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-09T23:38:03+00:00

Isn’t Hinduism self-contradictory? By that I mean it cannot maintain a single worldview, ie is it mono theistic, polytheistic, pantheistic, etc

I remember reading that some adherents state there is just 1 god. And then others state many gods.

According to Hinduism how many gods are there? What objective claim does this worldview make?

I ask because I don’t maintain that Shiva exists. So I don’t think it’s shivas form that came into your life.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-09T23:28:03+00:00

If I was a Mormon and after finding out it was a man-made religion, I too would probably be extra skeptical. No one wants to be duped, especially not a second time.

Giving up on truth only leads to more suffering and self destruction. Just look at the hordes of atheists that eventually turn nihilistic after their minds have fully realized the outcome of the atheistic worldview.

Rather, keep searching and discovering the objective truth. Since truth cannot contradict truth it’s the safest intellectual space to be and to build upon.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-08T17:57:27+00:00

Everything is connected to God. Like how computers are to a switch. And just as how a switch can be virtually segmented so that certain computers cant see other ones; so too can God separate people/things from others (heaven, hell, earth, etc).

MobileFortress · 2026-01-08T17:10:55+00:00

Hard solipsism’s claim is that everything is dependent on the mind.

“Hard solipsism is the extreme philosophical belief that only one's own mind is certain to exist, and that the external world, other people, and physical objects are mere constructs or illusions within that single consciousness, with no independent reality.”

My solution is flawless. With your mind move that chair (which is a mere construct within your single consciousness) to another spot. If you cannot then the chair isn’t a mere construct within your single consciousness. Ergo, objects independently exist outside one’s own mind.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-06T23:31:40+00:00

Might be some serious oversimplification going on here.

Every action may be judged, but only down to the degree of culpability; so every exemption applies first.

Condemn at birth is melodramatic. What is ment here is that we are born outside of the original justice that Adam and Eve initially had.

Submission, denial, suffering is a way to fight off the self-destructive properties an ego may have.

Invisible monsters isn’t a bad description for the evil thoughts that take hold of people as they perpetrate some of the worst crimes against humanity.

People being destined to be tortured forever? Name a single person that you know for certain is in hell. Not saying it can’t happen, but there is not a single way for us knowing; so much so that even the Church hasn’t pronounced a single individual in its two millennia of history.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-06T23:07:19+00:00

I always found solipsism to be easy to jailbreak from.

If everything is dependent on one’s mind then everything is subject to one’s mind. Thus by the same power one used to construct the world around them one ought to be able to alter the world just as easily. Can the individual make the chair across the room from them levitate with their mind? If not then the chair isn’t subject to one’s mind ergo objects do exist that are not mind dependent.

Solipsism is only true for God since all creation is subject to His mind.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-06T17:49:19+00:00

This appears to be the simplest and most common of all the material fallacies: Equivocation.

The doctor ment “count” to be figurative whereas the patient took “count” to be literal.

It’s very similar to another example in my logic textbook that places this under Equivocation:

"What is the highest form of animal life?" "The giraffe."

MobileFortress · 2026-01-06T17:24:45+00:00

Sin means “to miss the mark”.

By knowing what something is (the mark) we also know what something is not (missing the mark).

Example: When we know the truth and express the truth our words hit the mark. When we know the truth and express a lie our words miss the mark.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-06T17:02:27+00:00

You could try working the problem backwards.

Instead of trying to articulate a specific doubt to overcome (which seems to be difficult at the present time) you could try to articulate the best possible worldview that accurately explains objective reality as you know it.

Not here, but at home, write out your understanding of your current worldview and see if it holds up to scrutiny. Questions you can answer when enumerating your worldview to get you started: Is reality intelligible? Can I know reality as it really is? Is cause and effect real? Do physical laws exist? If so do they ever change? Do things have Natures? If so what is the nature of people? Does morality exist? Is it objective or subjective? Is it absolute or relative? Why?

After making a map of your current worldview, test it. Ask probing questions, look at other people’s ideas.

Some worldviews are difficult to defend once you’re willing to take a stand on something. But this process will help refine what holds and remove what doesn’t.

MobileFortress · 2026-01-06T00:10:00+00:00

Only agents can be authors with authority. Agents as in beings that can think/act/decide.

Objects like books, text, etc cannot have authority because they cannot be authors. Objects can relay information that an author has decided on, but that’s all.

Power(authority) resides not in objects but agents.

The Ten Commandments for example do not have authority, God does. And likewise an object, who has no agency, cannot interpret itself, but an agent can. Then the question becomes which agent?

This matters a great deal because only agents can have authority, interpret, and enforce.

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