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Explanatory Power vs Baseless Assertions
You are conflating explanation with assertion.
Anyone can posit baseless assertions that hypothetically account for things, but that doesn't mean they have explained those things. Explanations are not baseless. Explanations incorporate data. They provide a mechanistic understanding for predicting the outputs of a system.
Physicalism is not baseless. Physicalism incorporates data. Physicalism provides a mechanistic understanding for predicting outputs of systems. Physicalism explains 99.99% of our reality.
Idealism is baseless. Idealism does not incorporate data, it just asserts things arbitrarily. Idealism does not provide any mechanistic understanding of why things are the way they are for predictive purposes. Idealism explains 0% of our reality.
When choosing between metaphysical theories, explanatory power is the primary epistemic virtue. Simplicity only becomes relevant after explanatory power has been maximized.
Physicalism outperforms idealism in explanatory power. It underpins our most successful predictive and practical frameworks—from physics and biology to engineering and medicine. Until idealism…
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Dual Aspect Theory of Pasta
If we’re conflating explanations with mere assertions, then I can explain reality even better than idealism—with Pastafarianism.
Don’t scoff. The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn’t just a myth. Haven’t you studied quantum physics? Every quantum wave function is a manifestation of the Spaghetti Monster’s noodly appendages—microscopic units of spaghetti scattered across the universe.
He is in all things and through all things. His fields penetrate all. All things are pasta.
Just as quantum fields are indeterminate within and determinate without, the Spaghetti Monster is mental within and material without.
This is the Dual Aspect Theory of Pasta.
With Pastafarian Dual Aspect Theory, we can "predict" that:
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Sources of Themes of the Book of Abraham
2/19/2025 - Steven and I filmed a podcast reviewing issues for and against the divinity of the Book of Abraham: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z7PXg7boFoM?si=NavLKHd6o82areYI
Seth's Blog Link:
50 Issues with the Book of Abraham | TranscendentPhilosop
Steven's Blog Link: The Many Contradictions of The Book of Abraham: https://stevesmilanich.wixsite.com/thissaintstheory/post/the-many-contradictions-of-the-book-of-abraham
One of Steven's most interesting arguments was based on an array of themes and details found within the Book of Abraham that seem to correspond to details found in other texts written about Abraham. It would be curious why different Abrahamic texts would agree if there wasn't some mutual connection or valid truth behind them.
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Moral Test Argument for Atheism
Moral Test Argument for Atheism:
P1. The moral test must rely on faith (lower than 100% confidence in God's existence), because the test is ruined by a perfect knowledge (100% confidence in God's existence); this is because if we knew that God was watching, we would refrain from sin out of fear instead of refraining from sinning out of our desire to be good.
P2. If 100% confidence in God's existence ruins the moral test by 100%, then 99% ruins the test by 99%, 98% by 98, 2% by 2%, 1% by 1% etc.
C1. 0% confidence in God's existence is the state that ruins the moral test by the least amount, maximizing the moral test's effectiveness.
P4. The state of having 0% confidence in God's existence is equivalent to a state of atheism.
C2. Atheism is the most optimal state for maximizing the effectiveness of God's moral test for…
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The Trickster God of D&C 19
D&C 19
6 Nevertheless, it is not written that there shall be no end to this torment, but it is written endless torment.
Translation: "Ackchyually, it's not 'no end' its 'endless' - this is key, because I don't actually mean 'no end', I mean something completely different."
*Even though God is apparently too stupid to realize that it actually IS written as "no end" at least 3 times in just the BOM.
7 Again, it is written eternal damnation; wherefore it is more express than other scriptures, that it might work upon the hearts of the children of men, altogether for my name’s glory.
Translation: "I intentionally said 'endless' and 'eternal' in order to be more stimulating and manipulate people into a greater degree of fear and urgency."
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Philosophy of Gender
ONTOLOGY:
There are two domains of life - the objective and the subjective (ontologically-speaking).
The objective domain of life is based on objects - materials, atoms, biology, anatomy. This is the domain of sex - the objective.
The subjective domain of life is based on subjects - agents with consciousness, identities, personalities, feelings, wellbeing, capacities for pleasure and pain. This is the domain of gender - the subjective.
You are missing 50% of your ontology if you ignore this distinction. Biology and psychology - both exist, both are important.
*Notice: I am not using objective/subjective in the epistemic sense.
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