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Faith is Not Belief Absent Evidence
I constantly see “faith is just believing without evidence” but this is a strawman that hardly any theist would own.
Now you may think the evidence is weak or not rational or better explained with other explanations, but evidence you don’t think is good or convincing is still evidence.
My goal of this post is to try to save everyone’s time by not having the constant
Atheist:Faith is belief absent evidence
Theist: Not it’s not.
Atheist:Ok what’s the evidence(they ask rhetorically)
Theist:’gives evidence that doesn’t convince a non theist’
Atheist:That’s not evidence.
Yada Yada Yada.
Atheists can we just start saying Faith is unwarranted belief based on weak or unconvincing evidence? Save us all some time?
Can e explain to me why it’s near impossible to get a PPO plan when you’re self employed
Like it’s not even offered.
I live in one of the most populous areas on earth DFW and have Blue Cross Blue Shield and somehow there are only 2 doctors in my network that have a new patient appointment available in the next 6 month!?!?!?
Seriously?!? And they both have trash reviews.
“If a small business can't afford to pay its employees a living wage, then that small business doesn't deserve to stay in business” is a popular slogan that is utterly divorced from reality.
Many small businesses operate on razor-thin margins and compete against massive corporations that benefit from economies of scale. If every business that couldn’t immediately pay a ‘living wage’ disappeared, we’d lose countless local shops, restaurants, and startups along with the jobs they provide. A low wage is better than no wage because there aren’t enough jobs.
This is the very reason many large corporations like Amazon and Target advocate for a raised minimum wage, because it would annihilate its small competitors.
Question about Mamdani's Public Grocery Store
So Mamdani is opening up a publicly funded grocery store that is charging 30% below market value to help out poor New Yorkers and I had a couple of questions.
- Won't this udercut and probably kill off many of the mom-and-pop and small local grocery chains putting people out of business? Leaving only the state run grocery and the big monopolies?
2.What's to stop someone or a business from buying up a bunch of groceries from the public store cheaply and selling them at closer to market value?
- Why not just use the tax dollars to beef up food stamps? Seems like you could cut out the middle man and also not hurt small businesses that can't survive the competition?
Regulations Increase Cost of Production
Which increases labor costs, which increases consumer costs. Every year we have more regulations, every year the dollar is worth less and costs go up.
Obviously other things affect prices(weather, war, etc...) but this one is consistent.
Most regulations are written under the influence of powerful oligarchs who use them in their favor, called regulatory capture. This creates monopolies and kills small businesses ability to compete. This raises costs. Competition lowers costs.
Where am I wrong?
This Show Should Be Called House of the Dragging
I’m enjoying the show but mainly just for the performances and the scenery plus the occasional cool scenes but Sub plots just drag on and on and on with no movement. Each of these seasons could be 4 episodes at this point. Cut out the fluff. Like are we seriously having another season with a Targaryen prince wandering around Luigi’s mansion having visions for like 5 freaking episodes?
Thoughts on Freeman Dyson's Principle of Maximum diversity as a potential response to the problem of evil?
I posted this earlier but the quote got cut off so here's my second attempt.
I dont think this a formal argument of his, merely something he said in a lecture.
>"I do not claim any ability to read God's mind. I am sure of only one thing. When we look at the glory of stars and galaxies in the sky and the glory of forests and flowers in the living world around us, it is evident that God loves diversity. Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Maximum diversity often leads to maximum stress. In the end we survive, but only by the skin of our teeth. This is the confession of faith of a scientific heretic."
For Abrahamic theists this could also potentially align with the verses that suggest the purpose of creation is to display God's glory.
Obviously I could understand someone having a problem with God allowing suffering simply because it's existence is more interesting than not ha.
Principle of Maximum Diversity as a Possible Response to the Problem of Evil
I dont think this a formal argument of his, merely something Freeman Dyson said in a lecture.
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For Abrahamic theists this could also potentially align with the verses that suggest the purpose of creation is to display God's glory.
Obviously I could understand someone having a problem with God allowing suffering simply because it's existence is more interesting than not ha.
Thoughts on Freeman Dyson's Principle of Maximum diversity as a potential response to the problem of evil?
I dont think this a formal argument of his, merely something he said in a lecture.
>"I do not claim any ability to read God's mind. I am sure of only one thing. When we look at the glory of stars and galaxies in the sky and the glory of forests and flowers in the living world around us, it is evident that God loves diversity. Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Maximum diversity often leads to maximum stress. In the end we survive, but only by the skin of our teeth. This is the confession of faith of a scientific heretic."
For Abrahamic theists this could also potentially align with the verses that suggest the purpose of creation is to display God's glory.
Obviously I could understand someone having a problem with God allowing suffering simply because it's existence is more interesting than not ha.
No Shure Control between Axient 2 pack and QL5?
QL5 set to daisy chain
Axient given a yamaha address Y001-...
Axient network set to switched.
Cat going from axient to QL5
Primary and shure control both on same subnet.
Device Control on QL5 also on the same subnet(set to auto IP)
Multiple off and on resets on all devices.
What gives?
Edit: Left last night, wasn't working. Came back to the venue this morning and now I have shure control. The audio elves must have fixed it....
Is rational belief dependent on one's available data?
People will say it's irrational to believe in "x". But doesn't that depend on what data each person has access too?
Like person A could have a certain data set that renders belief in "x" irrational, but could person B have a different data set that renders belief in "x" rational?