of course.   The sort of brain th…[Read more]

“Over time yes. One small step at a time. A decision here and a decision there. Years later, bad decisions accumulate and the weight of them swings the pendulum the other way.”

Yes exactly!   So you understand in that moment with your brain in the state it was in at that tim…[Read more]

You were not free to say the oppos…[Read more]

was god free to say that love is bad, and hate is good.   Was he free to say that you should not help the poor one?   Was he free to say that rape is good?  Was he free to say that steeling is good.

I already gave this example but if you had to make the decision to come up with any city, to me that seems like there can’t be a freer choice. And yet when we look, it’s hard to find the freedom.  Out f the millions of cities only a few arose in consciousness.  You weren’t a…[Read more]

someone with a very different brain chemistry who is suicidal can…[Read more]

I think what we call the heart is really a part of the brain.  Our brain of course is what is thinking and responding to the senses and ideas and input.  We are the sum total of everything in our brains.

there was a guy who never in his life had any desire of p…[Read more]

I changed your “prefer” to want, only because it’s the word I’ve used in all these posts.  And as I’ve said in my posts, you are free to choose the one you want.  You aren’t free to choose yo…[Read more]

There are only two reasons for which you will ever purposefully do anything–you are FORCED to or you WANT to.
(Example: Many people say they don’t want to go to the gym but they go anyway.  Is this an example of someone doing something freely and not because they want to?  N…[Read more]

Think of the name of city.  Choose any city you WANT.  Pay attention to what this conscious process of choosing a city is like.  This is as free a decision as you are ever going to make.  You have all the cities in the world to choose from and I’m asking you to pick one.  Several cities have probably occurred to y…[Read more]

ya it’s been a while.  I spent like a couple hours a day on here for about 8 years, but I basically switched to much shorter and even more frustrating conversations on YouTube about 5 years ago.

Im not the person I once was.  This website broke me.

Been thinking about you and this forum in the last week or so.  Not sure what to say, but hope you are doing okay given what happened.

Any way to tell of the earth is flat or round with a drone?

Its not just that the same image isn’t seen.

It’s that if you take someone near the North Pole and someone at the same longitude near the South Pole, the moon will appear upside down when each person is shown the others image

If it is a globe, we would expect an upside down image of the moon when viewed at on…[Read more]

Im very new to this.  What of ships seemingly going over the horizon?

You replied “the purpose behind it is to hide God.”

I’m not sue I understand.  If the universe wasn’t as most believe, with a couple hundred billion galaxies each with let’s say a couple hundred billion stars, m…[Read more]

don want to throw your conversation off.  Haven’t thought about any of his at all, but have a couple questions which perhaps you already addressed.

What is the purpose of this deception—with NASA and scientists and others deceiving others into thinking the earth is spherical?

And, what do we think of the other planets, and stars.  Are…[Read more]

We may have a 6th mass extinction.  Or maybe we won’t.  But homicide is an actual thing that actually happens.  It’s not something that may happen.  When thinking of violence people often look at what we are capable of, and o…[Read more]

What im suggesting is, this has always been the case.  Judicial toeture has existed in almost all places through most of history and only recently fallen out of favour.

During the Black Death, they went from village to village burning alive all the Jews.  They s…[Read more]

And as for the Middle East, I think you are comparing the Middle East (and we may as well throw Latin American countries in there too) to the rest of the world.  And not comparing Middle East today to Middle East i…[Read more]

There is this belief among advocacy groups that you have to say everything is very bad ad getting worse.  They t…[Read more]

As an example, I know that 3% is really reallly bad and could be much much better.  I’m just saying: 3% is much better t…[Read more]

And homicide is way way way way down.  It’s been falling for thousands of years.  And continues to fall to this day.

Violence is decreasing and massively so.

Graphs, and charts aren’t required for many categories of violence, since they went from legal and common place to almost non-existent:

HUMAN SACRIFICE extremely common for millennia, and even practiced among the…[Read more]

If god said: “slavery is okay,” then it would be moral to have slaves.

And if of god said: “slavery is a sin,” then it would be immoral to have salves.

Is it arbitrary or does God base his ideas o…[Read more]

If slavery is immoral, it makes sense that a God, a supreme being, would know this.  Slavery wasn’t a moral…[Read more]

I’ve had this thought also.  But I’m not sure.   Saying to love someone is very vague.  Saying you can beat someone is pretty specific.

If I told you two things:

1. love your sl…[Read more]

Ive had this thought also.  But I’m not sure.   Saying to love someone is very vague.  Saying you can beat someone is pretty specific.

If I told you two things:

1. love your sl…[Read more]

The abuses against fellow Hebrews were banned in Israel.  The indentured servitude.  They were not to treat their brothers cruelly.  Yes.  But the actual real slaves, the ones they took captive, the non…[Read more]

twice you said these bad things are what happens without god.  But this is my point.  God wasn’t absent.  God made rules for slavery.  How you couldn’t beat them too severely for example.  These things weren’t happening without god.  He created rules for slavery apparently.