Comments by "Ungoogleable o_O" (@oO_ox_O) on "Al Jazeera English" channel.

  1. What's a Dervish?
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  2. +Sarmad Ghafoor Harsh punishments performed by people or by your god?
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  3. Nicole Santiago Are you saying that all the bad things aren't part of god's plan? That god didn't made those happen on purpose?
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  4. Sarmad Ghafoor Are you really clear about what is meant with "free will"? Is a "free will" decision something that can be unexpected to god or was it predetermined by the creator of everything? Either 1) God is not almighty since he can't foresee everything. 2) God created someone knowing every single action this person will do in his/her lifetime. God chose to create this person this particular way where he would then do this or that. You can't claim god had no other choice since being almighty implies that god has all the choices.
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  5. Buri Buri Zaemon  A religion can be blamed for not making people better if the religion claims that it does.
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  6. Edward Choi 1) Unlike the deities behind the religions my parents aren't almighty (omnipotent) and all-knowing (omniscient) which means that they don't know what exactly it takes to make me good… but a god would. 2) Every cause has an effect. A god that is the ultimative cause is also ultimately responsible for everything, this would include the "wrong crowd".
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  7. Edward Choi > He gave us free will Do you realize what this would entail? would this "free" will be so "free" that even god couldn't foresee what would happen? Meaning that human actions wouldn't be totally expected? In that case this would mean that god isn't almighty, that his powers are limited because there would be something he could not foresee even if allegedly he created everything which affect those decisions. > All of it is to test our faith An all-knowing being would not need to test anything, the being would already know the answer in advance.
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  8. ***** Please answer me, is any human action unexpected to him? Also, what would be there to test if he knows the answers in advance?
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  9. Edward Choi Not me, your god figure you have to believe to be omniscient (all-knowing).
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  10. Edward Choi > To see if they studied and is well prepared for the questions that will be asked. Are you implying god does not know that in advance?
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  11. Edward Choi > If we did not have free will, there will be no point in living. Well, that's what is the logical conclusion with an almighty, all-knowing creator god, everything is predetermined, including all human action, all part of his plan…
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  12. Someone at AJ does apparently not know what the rust belt is…
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  13. johnny cash  Is the black stone to be danced around man-made?
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  14. johnny cash Is it true that every Muslim has to visit the stone to dance around at least once in his life?
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  15. do I sense the pragmatic argument there? "no matter whether religions are true, they are handy"?
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  16. @Antifides But…but…but, he works is sooooo misterious ways… :->
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  17. did you ignore what he said about chromosome fusing?
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  18. Tell that to the clerics in e.g. Afghanistan, they will tell one thing, you and others another.
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  19. You didn't correctly reply to any comment so that Youtube would link it. But since your comment doesn't have any content I guess it doesn't matter anyway, still I wonder whether you are unwilling or unable to deal with my reply.
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  20.  @halleluia2025  Isn't that also the difference between rural and life in the big city?
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  21. > CAPITALISM creates […] COMMUNISM LOL
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  22. huh, what's specifically "materialistic" about this? "non-materialists" simply don't ask/try to answer such a question?
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  23. How is it "self-defeating"? And what does it have to do with whether it's true?
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  24. should have said supremum
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  25. bacteria are just a domain of _prokaryotic_ organisms
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  26. Axioms my friend, you have a set of them that you want to keep as small/simple as possible. An omnipotent (independent thus indeterministic) being that is in control of everything, i.e. one that can manipulate anything arbitrarily is a bigger claim than the universe that has a starting point from where on we can explain it through rules. On top of that one has empirical evidence, the other has by definition none because it can't be falsified (there is nothing you can't explain by omnipotence).
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  27. @Idunism Worse than '95?
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  28. Oh boy, you apparently completely ignored what I wrote, apparently you have a "human-centered" perspective you can't dissociate yourself from, do you also attribute human properties to numbers and algorithms? Again, what about determinism, didn't me suggesting that you can either have an omnipotent and thus all-knowing being _or_ a free will or disturb you in any way? Didn't you read it or not understand it, please give me feedback, so I know where I can improve when dealing with similar people.
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  29. Now I understand you, you are saying that not everything about religions is bad, well that basically boils down to the pragmatic question: "is religion even if it was false beneficial?", that's a fair discussion to have, esp. if you are not an idealistic believer in the truth. Anyways, if you say coke is not all-bad for you (after all it gives you energy through sugar and is a liquid) does not mean that it's better than no coke.
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  30. > purposeful Purposeful as in leading to the current state? Well matter does that as well, we have good explanations why it is that way, e.g. how stars formed, how life evolved… > wise Perfectly wise, right? So only perfect outcomes can spurn from that? Thus everything is perfect in your opinion? > all-knowing Like the future, right? Since it's pre-defined, determinism rules and there is no "free will", right?
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  31. @creamy6680 You shouldn't pray against god's will.
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  32. @cagebeast OK. BTW, god-philosophy is fun, let me have a try too: God is omnipotent and has omniscience, that means he is able to control everything and knows everything, so basically everything is god because there is no differentiation to be made between what is god and what not. Also he knows everything ahead including the state of human mind, ergo there is no absolute free will since that would imply that god is not above it.
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  33. @evrmore0mine Sin creates tectonic movements? :->
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  34. @Jordanloll He helped them with population control?
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  35. > forced their people to abandon their gods? Weren't they majority Christian anyway at this time? So it's just one particular god idea they had to abandon.
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  36. Thanks for pointing that out, maybe it's better to mark all his posts as spam.
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  37. > "well shes obviously attacking the religions that most people believe, judaism, islam, christianity." > "in other words she only sees that bad and not the good.no!" "In other words" the ones that not "most people believe" are the "bad" and the rest are "good"?
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  38. I bet you would have claimed the same no matter what age you were living in.
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  39. You didn't answer my question, my point was that you can't discard causalityby saying "goddunit!". Now you are apparently dividing the world into a "mindless" and "mindful" one, I don't see any objective basis for this, me thinks you start with arbitrary axioms that fit your agenda.
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  40. natural selection is very well guided, it's guided towards a local maximum
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  41. Your avatar is haram.
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  42. > I see many muslim now are turning to the quality of Christian Numbers?
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  43. @MRBMW10 but he won't, people will
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  44. Pragmatism, if the situation was different they certainly wouldn't approve of each others.
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  45. @wonderfulhydie No, this a sign to believe in Zeus.
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  46. @diizasta2011 You have something better to do? :->
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  47. You feel Odin too, don't you? Come on, don't be a liar, it's Odin you feel.
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  48. @helen0music He is, can't you see?
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  49. @MRBMW10 @xsuexkilla The end was near 4000, 2000, 1000 and 11 years ago, now again?
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  50. > what about the eastern religion where it is a shame to have a female daughter as your first child but a blessing to have a boy I doubt that's really part of their religion, but yeah if it is it certainly is bad too. > most gods say to love and fear them as well! Indeed, Odin is an exceptional example for this. But what makes her deceived in your opinion? Not mentioning that other religions aren't much better?
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