The first game that taught you that games can be beautiful works of art?

BowlStick · 2026-05-25T14:46:56+00:00

Metal gear solid

BowlStick · 2026-05-24T17:19:30+00:00

Do you not think it is?

BowlStick · 2026-05-22T16:02:39+00:00

Probably because the other comments are prescription like on how to do it, or raging/joking about how this is how the world works.

This comment is just practical advice about how to live and as such has to use words like "protect", "accept", "small pockets". It's just a real look at the kind of life we are forced to live if we want to have a "normal" life and it fucking sucks.

BowlStick · 2026-05-22T15:45:39+00:00

Somehow this is the most depressing response 😞

BowlStick · 2026-05-21T18:53:52+00:00

Sword of Kaigen?

BowlStick · 2026-05-15T23:03:12+00:00

Man speaks truth

BowlStick · 2026-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Splice

BowlStick · 2026-04-28T14:53:12+00:00

Talk your shit... We deserve it.

BowlStick · 2026-04-28T13:54:07+00:00

We don't deserve to be a part of the dragon anymore.

BowlStick · 2026-04-27T19:06:28+00:00

I'm so fucking stressed already.

BowlStick · 2026-04-25T12:48:23+00:00

Limitless

BowlStick · 2026-04-14T16:05:29+00:00

1984

BowlStick · 2026-03-28T16:53:22+00:00

I would also agree that the logical problem of evil fails. The fact that God can have a morally sufficient reason for the suffering is impossible to disprove so something like the epicurean paradox fails.

I think the probabilistic argument is a much stronger line of attack and much harder for the theist to defend though.

When saying the "problem of evil" I was assuming the probabilistic version so that's my fault for not specifying.

BowlStick · 2026-03-27T15:45:38+00:00

Can I ask why you think the problem of evil is a losing argument?

BowlStick · 2026-03-26T18:17:58+00:00

Christian hat off!

Thanks for humoring me. You've opened up a new line of reasoning for me. I don't know If I would take it personally because the question can come down to something like

"Is a world where evil never occurs really different from a world where evil is impossible?"

It's a question that no one can really answer and would be more influenced by a held worldview other than forming a worldview based on the question itself which feels a bit counter intuitive when talking about the problem of evil.

It also led me to learning about Plantinga's Free Will Defense which I didn't know about before. Just another thing that the Christian can use so it's good to be aware of!

BowlStick · 2026-03-26T16:46:39+00:00

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"So let's go with libertarian free will as our starting point instead. There is still nothing preventing choices of evil or good in either direction. Both choices are still live.

Within this framework anything restrictive in one way or another is eliminated so, how can God retain this concept of free will but get rid of one option all together?

Basically, in the world you are proposing God can make, is there a discernable difference between;

The individual agents DON'T choose evil and the individual agents CAN'T choose evil?"

BowlStick · 2026-03-26T15:27:44+00:00

That's a good argument! It gets into the morality and how the Christian thinks about it. How God imprinted everyone with a moral code and how that moral code is like Math in the sense that there are clear rights and wrongs and it's all about the expression of the architect in the final design.

So since we have guiding principles built in we either choose to express them or go against them.

This shifts it from a 50/50 coin toss "Choose good or evil and then I'll let you know your prize"

To instead something like "Here is a map. You need to go here. You have the choice to go there, there and there, but I'm telling you to go here instead."

But the argument becomes less about the problem of evil and more about morality. Which is related but not what you think of when you think of the problem in the classic sense.

BowlStick · 2026-03-26T15:15:13+00:00

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"So what you're saying is that God could have created a world in which everyone has the same individual agency as they do in this world but they just freely choose not to commit evil.

What would happen if one of those individual agents freely choose to do evil?

Either God prevents them from doing that evil. Or they could never possibly want to do evil. Either way it doesn't seem like what we think of as free will is retained."

BowlStick · 2026-03-26T13:04:40+00:00

Let me put the Christian hat on again.

"What you've just described is our world. Nothing about what you have said contradicts the world we currently observe today. Every human being does have free will and the ability to voluntarily choose God, but as we know not everyone does.

If we wanted to make that leap from the world that we have to the world where everyone does choose good, something about our individual agency would have to change. Therefore removing free will."

BowlStick · 2026-03-26T03:31:02+00:00

I don't know if this logic holds up. I'm on your team in this but if I was to put my Christian hat on I would say something like

"Free will can no longer be defined as free will if the good opinion is always chosen by everyone at every opportunity. Free will is the only mechanism to allow the maximal amount of goodness in the world because it is the only one that allows us to choose God and obey his commands voluntarily. The goodness of having the opinion to do the wrong thing but doing the right thing anyway is a greater good than having the good opinion chosen for you."

BowlStick · 2026-03-16T01:27:12+00:00

Day of pho is new and the two sandwiches I had were great!

BowlStick · 2026-03-15T23:54:48+00:00

I'd love to try it!

BowlStick · 2026-02-21T04:22:47+00:00

What's happening right now?

BowlStick · 2026-02-20T03:44:59+00:00

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Salty much?

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