John Buck 🇺🇸
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27. Not a fan of lazy apologetics. Catholic convert. Hopeful Panpsychist.
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@WhenBeliefDies
Here's a short articulation of what I call the participation theodicy. There's links in the follow-up, of short papers I've written as well as a couple discussions I've had with people going over it.
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@RealAtheology
The one I find most plausible is my own, that the greatest thing God could do would be to create a perfect world through the contribution of creatures bringing it about. But, such would require initially creating an imperfect world with creatures where evils can occur.
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Atheists make fun of prayer for being a waste of time and energy, then will go talk to a therapist once a week for $150/hr.
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@Gravantus
You remember that time in your childhood when you recognized you were self-aware? Maybe they're just still in that stage.
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The Christian denominations I find most plausible, without much thought:
1. Catholicism
2. Eastern Orthodoxy
3. Anglicanism
4. Lutheranism
5. Evangelical
6. Methodism
7. Latter Day Saints
8. Presbyterianism
9. Baptists
10. Puritanism
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@Richard_Vixen
If she thinks that her child will be most happy in the lifestyle which she herself is living out, why shouldn’t she encourage her daughter in those same footsteps?
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@adam22
Yeah, and a life spent doing drugs and treating people like masturbatory tools is better than a life trying to make the world better and raising the next generation in a healthy home.
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@5Solas2
Hey, remember when God himself became incarnate in physical form as a man? He wasn’t blurry then, you don’t need to misrepresent him now.
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So happy to see one of these where the Catholic actually knows their stuff.
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@decoyrobot
Can't forget this Oner with so many different things going on. Masterpiece.
The level of anger directed at the media from these protestors was alarming. As always, I will tell a fair and unbiased story today.
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@ZealousSeraphim
Everyone wants to join the most BASED religion up until it demands any sort of sexual constraint that affects them personally.
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@knight_atlantic
@QuinTertullian
This picture makes feminism sound like some post-apocalyptic event that took place.
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To clarify, this is not what I meant by this tweet.
I intended to point out how some atheists might fail to realize the therapeutic benefits of prayer/reflection, despite performing similar practices in speaking with a psychiatrist.
@WriterJohnBuck
No, it appears to me you’re saying that people criticize prayer as useless but participate in a useless activity themselves.
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@jamie_elizabeth
I chose to not be white, but now everyone is yelling at me for doing blackface. smh
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@Bahai144
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@rezaaslan
The point he's making is that it is wrong to assign 'punchable' to faces.
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Tweetman is a personal friend of mine (just saw him yesterday when this was going down) & it pisses me off to see how people’s pettiness can make others life’s worse like this.
He’s not worried about his job, but it’s still scary when crazy people on the internet know your info.
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Me: I think it is always wrong to torture babies for fun.
Utilitarians: Well, hang on! Just how much fun are we talking about here?
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@mxdpoet
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@PaisleyThomson
So I guess this settles it then. Fetuses do indeed have souls, even while in the womb!
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Christ is risen!
He has defeated Death, by death.
Last night I have entered into communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Happy Easter!
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Please pray for my sister in the hospital, she was in an accident.
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@sadydoyle
"I normally abide by this ethical-principle, but I'm willing to make an exception for my political enemies."
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Never ask a woman her age,
a man his income,
or a naturalist what 'natural' means.
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@rabbitdoingwork
Finally, a cat gets to feel what it’s like to try to walk with another animal weaving between their legs.
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@AbortionStories
That'a so wild. I didn't realize nature also used forceps to crush the baby's skull inside the uterus, pull out their limbs one by one, and reconstruct the infant out on the table to make sure all the pieces are there.
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I place it into the determinists hands to provide a defeater to my intuitive seeming.
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@dcexaminer
Win-win situation then. Their customers are happy not buying their products, and the ceo is also happy they're not buying their products. All's well that ends well.
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@CosmicSkeptic
Not deductively, but abductively.
God’s existence would be the simplest explanation of:
▫️Moral agents
▫️Harmony between the mental and physical
▫️Improvement within the universe over time
▫️Life-permitting constants
▫️Contingent reality
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Cameron from Capturing Christianity is entering the Catholic Church!!!
Very Important Updates
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@FonroquesT
@adam22
Great, so now we have two methods and can analyze which attempt is more successful at incentivizing those goods compared to the other.
It would be nice if appealing to common sense were more effective than it is, but, c'est la vie.
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@lporiginalg
“Oh, you won’t let us show smut to minors? Well then you can’t have any at all!”
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What’s your favorite philosophical position you think to be false?
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She’s woken up and is responsive to questions by nodding her head and squeezing her hand. They’ll take out her intubation tube later this morning and take her off the heavier anesthetic.
She’s looking much better!
She’s in stable condition currently but suffered brain hemorrhaging so is being kept in an induced coma for at least 24 hours.
Thank you all for your well-wishes.
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I’ve been a bit quiet here since I’ve been dating someone the past month and we’ve really hit it off. I really like her, and she’s meeting my family next week.
Please pray for all those struggling with being single, it’s really hard out there.
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@PhysInHistory
The human brain, since it’s one of the few things we’re sure of that has any felt experience. It’s the very means by why we know all things that exist within the world.
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@FloodingLong
Catholics are largely in agreement with Protestants on justification (see the joint declaration on the doctrine of justification).
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@MarkMoonfang
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@WokePreacherTV
Being the mother of Christ, who is king of heaven, she is the queen mother of heaven.
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The commodification of human persons is an inherent evil that must be denounced by all.
Gay couple who wanted a son sue IVF clinic after surrogate gives birth to daughter
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I find it funny that Jordan Peterson has been associated with the Red Skull, since I always thought of Peterson’s relationship to Christianity from this moment in Infinity War.
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@adam22
Simple. Religions attempt to disincentivize the former,while promoting the latter.
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I don't see how penal substitution theory can be squared with any view of hell:
If we deserve eternal torture, but Jesus wasn't eternally tortured, then he didn't receive our punishment.
Same goes for annihilation, isolation or purgation.
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One of the earliest (dated 50-100AD) teachings for Christian doctrines and practices, the Didache, explicitly denounces abortion.
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I was happily surprised to learn that the philosopher Tim O’Connor had recently (re)Converted to Catholicism!
I was honored to attend mass with him today after the conference.
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Oh, you believe in free will.
Okay...
What *kind* of free will do you believe in?
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Can't believe Cameron hosted a debate between an atheist and a theist over whether demons were real, and the theists' argument was 'Because the bible says so."
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@costiwhinn
I'm happy that Zack is on fire for the Lord, but I'm afraid he misunderstood the teachings of the Catholic church, perhaps from poor confirmation or from those that misrepresent the church's teachings.
I'd hope that Zack'd come to learn the truth of the church Christ established.
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@jojammss
Still can’t quite overcome the uncanny valley. I can tell that’s not a real person.
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Got to see Dr. Rob Koons in person present an Aristotelian account of quantum mechanics at KU.
Great stuff!
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While I'm not sure whether I shall be Catholic or Orthodox as of yet, I'm fairly sure that I will not be protestant.
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@BlazeswordP
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Creating humans just to harvest their organs is in fact wildly immoral.
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The fact that people grow inside other people is incredible.
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I entered into the Catholic Church last year, after being raised evangelical Hebrew roots, then discerning Eastern Orthodoxy for two years. I eventually found Catholicism able to answer all the issues I found with the other sects,
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Post the first four books that started you on your current intellectual journey, no matter how cringe.
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@AleMartnezR1
The reason I ask is because if the middle premise is analytic, it could be understood as a conditional statement, which would mean this was a hypothetical syllogism.
If it's synthetic, then this argument would only work against people that already accept that God exists in such a
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@AtivaFofa
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Because women are really bad workers, that's why they earn less.
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Paulogia often accuses Christians of believing things "just because" they're in the Bible, then regularly dismisses things just because they're in the Bible.
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My compilation of atheist debater, Tom Jump, saying dumb stuff is nearing 10K views.
Check it out if you haven't yet for some laughs.
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Whenever talking with someone on a topic which you disagree on, always remember to repeat back to them what they said in a condescending tone of voice, that way they know that you fully understood their position.
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@negraesoterica
When you love someone very much, you want to be as close to them as possible. And the closest you can be to someone is literally inside them, or them inside you.
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Question for Protestants:
Why did Jesus change Simon’s name to Peter?
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@Catholic4Choice
Pro-lifers do want everyone to only become pregnant when they choose to do so, and not to have that position imposed upon them
They also want the fetus in the womb to grow up into a human person, and not have the mother's choice to abort them be imposed upon them.
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I consider myself a hardcore traditional Catholic.
By which, I mean that I emulate medieval peasants who were barely aware of who their pope was or what he was doing.
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Advice to Thomists:
if you cannot express a concept without using Latin terms, you probably don’t understand the concept very well.
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Stop saying 'quantum mechanics disproves the principle of cause and effect'.
You sound like Deepak Chopra making shit up to defend your position.
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