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Are there books about faith and how God manipulates causality to favour those he's fond of? I recently got quads and immediately after acquired a qt gf. I don't think it's merely a coincidence. some higher being with a deep affection for me must be pulling the strings

>> No.18150040

>>18150037
Read the bible.

>> No.18150064

>>18150037
With regards to the manipulating causality angle, any works that discuss occasionalism I guess. In Western philosophy, this position on causality is most famously held by Malebranche, but it's apparently present in Islam too.

The best place to find an answer as to why a deity would favour you is, as the other anon said, some kind of sacred text.

>> No.18150121

>>18150037
Gravity's Rainbow

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>>18150064
> occasionalism
Ash'arites killed Islamic Civilization, but let's import it into the West, what can happen ?

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>>18150146
Nothing really happened. Malebranche was widely-read, but seldom actually followed. It arguably set the precedent for non-interactionist solutions to the mind-body problem, but these too have remained unpopular.

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>>18150209
Then why did it fuck up Islam so much ? Good timing ?

>> No.18150227

Chad God is the creator or both good and evil. He arbitrarily chooses who to make good and who to make bad and punishes them accordingly, purely for his own enjoyment.

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>>18150227
If you believe R.Reilly, that's the problem right there.

>> No.18150286

>>18150215
No idea. It seems that occasionalism in Islam was (at least in the case of the Ash'arites) was reinforced by the doctrine of predestination (which as far as I can tell is far less controversial in Islam than in Judaism or Christianity) and a kind of fideism. Seems like a perfect storm for anti-intellectualism.

Malebranche's occasionalism was/is an alternative to Cartesian dualism. Whereas Descartes ran into the problem of how two fundamentally different substances could interact, Malebranche just said that they didn't and that all instances of efficient causation (most notably the relationship between states of mind and the actions that are taken to be caused by them) were the product of God's will.