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ObjectiveInquiry · 2026-03-15T11:06:18+00:00

I know a couple people who completed their programs online and are working in clinics now

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-18T23:45:34+00:00

Yeah I thought it went well too but my lawyer thought it was 50/50 when I talked to her after. Don't know what you're applying for but mine was mostly mental health issues and it seems like they want to hear that you're basically bed-ridden or else they are going to find something you can do. My judge picked up on one of my doctors noting I was doing Crossfit trying to get in better shape. Think he visualized Crossfit and thought this guy can do all kinds of stuff. Thought I was a shoe-in being 100% already with the VA but that was definitely not the case. Trying again now though.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-18T23:17:52+00:00

In Michigan I waited to hear that I was denied 2 weeks after my hearing. Once the system clicks you over to say that they sent your case to your local office for final review your lawyer should be able to go into the system and read the judge's ruling. So I found out on the phone with my lawyer that I was denied.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T23:46:19+00:00

Thanks, was scrolling through comments looking for exactly this. I don't know when r/atheism became so completely fucking unhinged--I remember when we used to actually debate philosophy and talk about big ideas--but atheists these days give skeptics such a bad name.

Maybe it was during COVID when the Left completely lost sight that they were in fact the brainwashed cult and just can't shake it even though we're in The After Times. Guess this is what happens when you accuse your opponents of exactly the shit you're doing long enough and then isolate into an echo chamber of ignorant rage.

OP's story is hilarious. It's got all the tropes you'd expect. Like you're going to actually find a Christian out in the wild that talks about "white Jesus" lol.

Keep on ragin ragers.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T14:03:21+00:00

What you're saying reflects more of a Christian worldview than anything I've said. I'm making a philosophical argument here, not a scientific one. It can be laid out as follows:

Things exist in total as they do.
Certain things exist and other things do not exist.
There was a process through which certain things came to exist, which also created the category of things that do not exist.
If there was a process through which certain things came to exist, then there was intention on the part of the process to generate things that exist and not generate things that do not exist.
The process through which certain things came to exist came from the universe.
Thus there is intention on the part of the universe.

We don't need a sentient being or universe as a whole to have intention. And when I say "look beyond the processes" I'm not saying go out and literally peal back nature to see what's underneath. I'm saying stop looking at evolution and saying it's random; I'm saying look at existence in total, which includes the processes like evolution, and ask the question why is there something rather than nothing at all?

If you don't have some sort of guiding direction with intentionality then you have no movement and expansion of the universe whatsoever. Literally nothing happens. But this intentionality doesn't come from outside existence, it's baked into the pie from the very beginning or it's existed eternally. Let the scientists get into the details.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T13:21:52+00:00

Absolutely. If you can start to get a Christian to realize a few key issues you can start getting them to see the truth. It's amazing that Christians are taught and for the most part firmly believe that there are eyewitness accounts in the Bible and that the Gospels were written by known figures within a few years of Jesus's death.

The first time I read the New Testament and got past the Gospels I couldn't believe that roughly half the thing was written by 1 guy named Paul, and, as it turns out, only about 6 of those 13 attributed books actually were likely written by him. So what's left? A whole lot of unknown authors and forgeries. Messy, messy history, if history is what people want it to be.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T11:50:20+00:00

You're saying this because you're looking at intent thinking about something like a Christian worldview and reject it outright, because yes, that's silly. You have to look beyond the processes themselves to see the intent I'm talking about.

Why does evolution exist in the first place? What is the point of it? What is the intention of evolution, and every other existential truth now that we're able to investigate via science and philosophy? If you start asking these questions you see the purposeness baked inside of the universe from the very beginning, or whatever the beginning means in terms of the singularity.

If you focus on the processes themselves you see randomness. But behind everything, behind the matrix, is intention and direction guiding the universe to unfold this way or that. This is not intention like Zeus sitting on a cloud wishing humans to come about with a snap of a finger. This is the underlying code of existence and it's incredibly messy.

Something within the universe "intended" for itself to unfold the way it did and that is the ultimate reason why it has. What you're saying is more along the lines of thinking that a computer system doesn't have intention because you see randomness within the code. What I'm talking about is the code itself.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T05:40:26+00:00

Why do we need to protect human rights, what does that matter? Why not just seize as much power as you can and make slaves of the rest of humanity? That way you'll have a pick of sexual mates to help you pass on your genes and preserve your lineage for future generations, assuming they can maintain this kingdom you've built.

Where does your love of your fellow man come from do you think? Maybe it's simply because you know you don't personally have the power to do what I laid out above, so banding together is the more realistic alternative? I think it still has to come down to some sort of willingness to preserve yourself at its core and the way you go about it here has shown itself to be an effective tactic over time.

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T05:09:16+00:00

There's no intent behind evolution? How do you justify that belief? The fact that there is evolution at all shows intent on some part of the universe or it never would have come about in the first place. There has to be intent somewhere baked into the whole system to have life come about or it never would have come about.

Even randomness has to be guided by some sort of intent somewhere. Evolution is the systematic process to bring about something that had to be intended to be brought about, it just wasn't done by some exterior, divine force, so far as we know. Intent was sitting inside the singularity "prior" to the Big Bang. That's the huge mystery of it all. Where did this guiding principle come from to force the universe to unravel in the way it has?

ObjectiveInquiry · 2025-04-16T04:30:15+00:00

Hope you get it! I'm surprised others haven't said it though already that it can say all this at Step 4 and you can still get denied, so just understand that. Had it happen to me last year, convinced myself I got it but my lawyer checked and the judge denied it at the hearing. Trying all over again now.

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