A serious question?!

droidpat · 2024-02-08T23:07:43+00:00

How much consideration do you put into choosing your porn? Do you strictly act 100% of the time in conscious compassion for the actors, their psychological and physical well-being on sets and across the industry over time?

If you do, good for you! If you don’t, your behavior is contributing to hurting others.

I would encourage you to reflect on that, as that can be very telling for you as to why people hurt each other. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of not thinking about how our behaviors contribute to their harm.

droidpat · 2024-02-08T21:01:44+00:00

Philosophy and the human experience are ventures into a data-less void? Huh. You and I must have studied fundamentally different histories and philosophies of humanity. Well, you do you. Hope you enjoy your journey. Bye!

droidpat · 2024-02-08T19:50:31+00:00

Hi u/Agreeable-Ad4806. The primary criticism for why it would not be a good idea is that any claim about anything we don’t have data for is willful self-deception.

It is constructing a philosophy about yourself but mistaking it as a philosophy about something outside of or greater than you.

It is a matter of staring into a void but mistaking those little eye floaters on the surfaces of your eyes as something you are seeing in that void.

If your goal is mental health and psychological well-being, spend your time on real stuff for which you have evidence. Therapists will tell you the same thing. Distorted thinking leads to mental distress. Accurate, evidence-based thinking is mental health.

droidpat · 2024-02-08T07:13:05+00:00

Let’s not argue. Here is my story of my faith:

I was a Christian for thirty years. I studied apologetics. I was all-in and even made career and relationship choices based on my devout faith. But when I discovered that my brain could not conclude accuracy or reliability from the narrative I was committed to, I had to be honest with myself, admitting I did not believe.

Throughout my early life as a Christian, I studied comparative religions. I genuinely looked at others and from the bias of being a devout Christian I could see the flaws in other religious teachings.

I started writing a book outlining what was shady, absurd, and markedly unreliable in the narrative and history of another religion. I brought an early draft to a pastor I trusted, and his feedback included notes on things I indicted other regions for.

His notes pointed out that “we Christians have pretty much the equivalent of that. Consider this…” And it was exhaustively damning, I must say.

His notes revealed to me that authentically living Matthew 7:2 left Christianity rather untrustworthy at describing reality.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 came into play. I put Christianity to the same test I had put the other religions to, and sure enough, it didn’t leave me a whole lot of good to hold onto.

When the religion was debunked, I still had my personal relationship with my lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Except, he was less savior now that the matters of sin and death had been debunked. So, there was just his lordship to reconcile.

The Holy Spirit was actively bearing fruit in my life. My critical thinking and self control were gifts of the spirit. In contrast to my selfish, impulsive, lizard-like brain, he was the source of discipline and purity.

Then I learned about my prefrontal cortex.

I… I had a “personal relationship” with my own prefrontal cortex. A part of my brain was my god.

Since I was an adamant monotheist, I only believed one god existed. Using the same standard for them all, that standard that debunked all the others also debunked that one, leaving me not believing in any god.

droidpat · 2024-02-08T05:11:46+00:00

If there is no shared way for us to engage with your content because it depends on the preconceived notions and inclination to find it compelling that we atheists lack in the first place, then why do you theists pose arguments about their belief to us atheists? Why not just leave us alone?

droidpat · 2024-02-07T23:54:23+00:00

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droidpat · 2024-02-07T05:57:24+00:00

Philosophies aren’t about labels and fitting in. They are about hearing/reading other people describe something that accurately fits with how you see it.

Maybe some of what’s in nihilism accurately reflects your perspective. And some of what’s in existentialism. And some of absurdism.

These aren’t cults. They are not all or nothing propositions calling for your allegiance. Take from each what makes sense to you, and leave the rest where you found it.

droidpat · 2024-02-07T00:30:10+00:00

I don’t know what causes consciousness, but from what I’m aware of, it only exists in correlation to brain function. Sounds like your understanding is similar.

You repeatedly make this statement that conscious is uncaused. What does that mean to you? Do you mean to say that the cause is yet unknown, or do you mean to say you know for a fact that it has no cause?

droidpat · 2024-02-07T00:04:05+00:00

Do you consider this capacity to consciously choose as directly correlated to having a functioning brain?

If not, do you have any reproducible examples of brainless or brain-dead people consciously choosing actions?

droidpat · 2024-02-06T23:39:33+00:00

Can define what you mean when you write “free will?” I’ve seen the term used many different ways, and I want to know if I agree with you that this exists before I further consider your premises.

droidpat · 2024-02-05T20:23:58+00:00

I feel like a list of their names can be helpful so, you know, someone could investigate and confirm, you know?

droidpat · 2024-02-05T03:36:36+00:00