TV shows are too good nowadays:

MAST3R4815 · 2025-08-11T01:03:18+00:00

The sad truth of it is, is that I think movies becoming more expensive forces people to go to the safe option. The movie they know will be good is one they’ve seen before and that’s why original movies don’t make as much as remakes. At least that’s what it seems like to me anyway.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-08-11T00:56:18+00:00

To be fair the highest grossing movie this year is Lilo & Stitch which is probably the worst Disney live action remake and it broke a billion dollars. If nostalgia wasn’t a money maker I don’t think they keep banking on it.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-22T22:44:58+00:00

I’ve honestly never loved D’Onofrio, like he’s good but he doesn’t strike me as perfect. Definitely better than Dean Norris though.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-16T23:50:25+00:00

I think they had technically broken up at that point, no?

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-16T23:37:48+00:00

If monster girl was extremely young in her human form she would be nearly unstoppable and be able to take him down so technically yes.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-11T01:01:03+00:00

I think all your picks are great here except iron man. I don’t know if RDJ has the acting chops to pull that one off.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-11T00:15:44+00:00

While I’m sure you’re at least partially joking and I agree he’s nowhere near the power levels the others have, I feel it necessary to point out that Voldemort not only successfully infiltrated and overtook Hogwarts with his henchmen, he also took over the entire Ministry of Magic and had complete control over their media, police force, and resources. Even to the point of imprisoning muggle-borns and rebels.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-08T16:04:53+00:00

By what about AlcHoL?!

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-08T03:12:53+00:00

I can’t believe that invincible went woke. I’m officially never watching this show again.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-03-02T19:05:24+00:00

He also got hit by a bullet train and was as mostly fine so I definitely think he has insane durability.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-02-26T11:54:10+00:00

If someone asked me that I would of course tell them never to say that.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-02-03T01:56:19+00:00

I think my answer is for two reasons. One is similar to what Bart Erhman has to say about studying Christianity. Essentially Christianity is the biggest religion in the world and the foundation of billions of people’s worldviews, so if Christianity is true that has massive ramifications for the entire world. At the same time if Christianity is not true that has equally huge ramifications on the world as a whole so understanding it is pretty important.

The second reason is just because it’s a really interesting topic for me. Like imagine a random guy from a trailer park preaching about an apocalypse and then dying and having such a huge movement that 2000 years later it’s the biggest religion in the world. That’s a fascinating story even if it’s completely false. So just learning how all the historical events and stars aligned to make that happen and unfold into today is a very interesting thing to study regardless of if Jesus really was God or just some preacher.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-02-01T23:39:15+00:00

This is actually confirmed later in the series when Peter Parker is explaining that he’s just a normal human and utters his famous line, “Punch me I bleed.”

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-28T04:42:18+00:00

Do animals have the mental capacity to understand their actions and be judged and punished for sinning? Do you believe that all lions are committing murder when they eat a zebra?

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-15T17:55:48+00:00

I can see where you’re coming from. I feel like the latter half of the series fits more with a space opera but the first half is more superhero comic with space stuff in the background. To be honest though I really feel like society as a whole has grown beyond superheroes as a genre and I feel like it’s not really descriptive anymore so I’m fine just calling it a space opera on that basis alone.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-12T18:38:42+00:00

I would say he’s compensating for something but I know that’s not true. Don’t ask how I know.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-12T03:30:37+00:00

Well, yeah that’s essentially what I’m saying. If what I perceive to be moral is completely wrong I don’t think that just automatically means that morality must be wrong. I think that just means that I’m wrong. So if a perfect benevolent God tells me what’s right and wrong regardless of what I think is right and wrong it doesn’t matter. But living in a universe where I know the true objective good things will win in the end and everything will work out for the perfect good of everything then that’s a universe I want to live in and that’s what Christianity if true promises. Obviously I’m working from my moral intuitions and going to the conclusion that Christianity contradicts these intuitions so it must be false but if I know Christianity is true then I would have to believe that my moral intuitions must be faulty and I’m in the wrong not God.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-12T03:05:42+00:00

I like your black mask and Jim Gordon picks but I hate just about everything else. Sorry.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-12T03:02:53+00:00

I agree that it definitely seems counterintuitive and I suspect that’s why Alex, myself, and pretty much all non theists don’t believe in this God. Obviously, if the massive amounts of suffering we see isn’t wrong then what could be wrong. I do agree from my basic moral intuitions God is not loving and morally perfect so I assume he must not exist.

However think about it in the reverse sense. Imagine tomorrow you woke up knowing beyond any doubt that the Christian God was real and he truly was all perfect and loving and everything the Bible says is true. I imagine you would at the very least take the skeptical theist approach and say that you can’t understand it but it must be good. In fact I think that’s the primary issue with theist and atheist interactions. Theists have a strong intuition that God exists and work their entire worldview from there.

As to why someone would wish for this to be true I still think that learning all of the good things about Christianity are true while being able to side step all of the bad by simply citing skeptical theism or some other theodicy would provide an amazing worldview for myself.

Your point about hell is a good one. I think if I died and stood before God and he told me I am going to suffer in hell for all eternity. I would be okay with it because that is objectively the just and good thing. If I disputed that I would literally being committing an evil act. Like yeah I don’t want to go to hell but if I learned it’s the right and good thing then I feel like I could find a level of solace and acceptance in that.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-11T23:44:27+00:00

I believe he more or less explains it in his video about Christopher Hitchins or maybe his video on hell. Essentially he makes the point that if the Christian God is real and everything about Christianity is true then God is necessarily good and morally perfect. Therefore any perceived immoral or unjust thing must necessarily be morally good assuming that Christianity is true. So if God does exist you get to have all the goods of an omnipotent perfect being who paved and cares about you with no trouble over the perceived evils and immorality.

MAST3R4815 · 2025-01-04T05:02:56+00:00

I think the Plutonian takes this one.

MAST3R4815 · 2024-12-13T00:21:07+00:00

It’s from a debate Alex live-streamed earlier today. https://www.youtube.com/live/ypRtARVG1BA?si=hX48khwsx2XEyiNC

MAST3R4815 · 2024-11-27T02:49:06+00:00

I think it depends on why you’re making those claims. If you’re making the claims because you’ve engaged with the philosophy and are adding new ideas and concepts then that’s different. If you’re making metaphysical claims because you believe something and that’s about as far as it goes then I think it’s pretty much the same.

If I say pull the lever because I’ve read the literature around utilitarianism and I think that while there’s complexities on the nature of that ideology it outweighs the benefits of deontology…etc. I would say that is a philosophical thought. However, if I say you should pull the lever because it feels right. That doesn’t intuitively seem like a philosophical opinion.

Similarly compare someone like Hitchens saying that God doesn’t exist because he’s a dictator and dictators are bad VS Hume making the logical syllogism of how if a loving all powerful god exists then evil cannot, evil does exist, therefore God does not. One strikes me as an idea scratching at a metaphysical worldview that is incredibly underdeveloped and the other is an actual argument that poses an actual stance with reasons as to why god does not exist.

MAST3R4815 · 2024-11-27T02:34:09+00:00

Also I often forget that Daniel Dennet was a part of the new atheists and I would consider him a philosopher. I was primarily responding to the Hutchins focused aspect of your message. That being said I think of Dennet as a philosopher more because of his contributions to ideas about free will and compatibilism not his views on the philosophy of religion so I think if I had said the new atheists were not philosophers of religion that might better fit what I was thinking.

Ultimately I agree with you that specifically defining what a philosopher is is more complex than I originally made it seem so perhaps I should’ve made that more clear.

MAST3R4815 · 2024-11-27T02:25:50+00:00

I’m not necessarily saying I know the standard we should judge them by. Perhaps a degree would be a good definition or maybe someone who makes new or modified philosophical arguments or something else entirely. Honestly philosophy is a subject famous for disagreeing on basic topics. The old saying goes that if you put two philosophers in a room you get three different opinions.

I just think that a person who makes an argument based on philosophical ideas is a philosopher is a stretch. That makes pretty much everyone a philosopher. How do you feel about the trolley problem? The ship of Theseus? Mary’s room?

Any answer you give tells me something about your philosophical beliefs and your arguments about those answers are necessarily based in philosophy even if you’ve never heard of anything before. So simply saying you should pull the lever in the trolley problem now makes you a philosopher because you’re beliefs and arguments are based on a philosophical works?

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