/lit/ - Literature

um no sweatie

But Sam, if you don't believe in free will, you MUST be religious, my man! After all, if human spirit is nothing but a result of a long chain of causality, that chain must have a causeless First Cause at it's beginning. What else could it be but Divine, Trascendental Creator, Sam?
Welcome to the fold, my christian brotha.

>mfw the christcuck destroys you

>>12594977
if you genuinely think that is enough to justify believing in the Christian god you’re beyond help

>>12594977
Why can't the first cause just be a churning base of existence? A timeless cauldron that bubbles universes?

>>12594943
Sam Harris single handedly closed Hume's is-ought gap and proved the existence of objectively morality (suffering is bad) in the Moral Landscape. He's up there with the greats like Aristotle and Rand

>>12595075
objective*

>>12595053
It could be a giant flaming penis ejaculting andromedas for all I care, but it has to be divine (i.e. outside of reason and influence of natural laws), by definition.

>>12594943
Yeah Jews are destroying America through their control of political media.

>>12594943
No, he really does not.

>>12595109
Yeah... Divine isn't that neutral a term. If that's definition is really all you mean, you could just say 'uncertain' or 'unknowable'.

>>12595075
>suffering is bad
Suffering is unpleasant, but not immoral, and in fact can be very moral.

>>12594943
This destroys the jew.

>>12595075
Weak bait. Utilitarians have uninronically had it figured since Epicurus. If you take utilitarianism and tweak it by acknowledging that variance in the nature of valuing agents leads to non-universal (but overlapping) utility conditions, the dichotomies evaporate. Also stop conflating objectivity with universality.

>>12595001
>do you seriously believe that.... I can't even..... If you actually believe that......
Where is your argument you mentally deficient animal

>>12594943
Dodgeball is an underrated movie.

>>12594943
>Arguments fail on multiple levels of analysis.