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I believe atheists fundamentally don't realize just how absurd existence is at all. Things seem to exist, deterministically. Yet, a fully contingent system can't explain itself. Somehow, reality is self-causing. This breaks our brain and can't actually make sense to us. If reality can't exactly make sense, then we can only "know" anything via a subjective experience. Objectivity will never cross this bridge.

If subjective experience is our only guide to reality, then I think the question of God's existence, which is clearly un-answerable, has an equal chance of being both true and false. Do you feel that we are the product of a larger mind. Does your gut tell you that there is some sort of intelligent organization of reality that is similar to how we intelligently organize the world in our minds? If so, you believe in "God."

Whatever the "truth" is, will have to sound absolutely absurd.

Let me define "freedom" as the ability to act outside of determinism and randomness (essentially, "the ability to do otherwise").

While this seems impossible (for if it were not impossible, what is the cause of the free decision if it wasn't random, or determined by something else), THINGS EXIST. THINGS COULD NOT EXIST IF ALL THINGS ARE DETERMINED BY SOMETHING ELSE, FOR NOTHING WOULD EVER EXIST.

So ultimately, we must accept that reality somehow unfolds in part from lack of deterministic causes, as impossible as it is to comprehend what that means. No person or AI or anything will ever be able to understand this within this plain of existence. So this conversation is meaningless.

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An infinite regress still requires the cause that made it that way. If there is no cause, then the infinite regress is self-caused, which disproves determinism right off the bat!

Contingent systems can’t explain themselves.

"Anything existing at all" is just as incoherent, yet undeniable.

Determinism is self-defeating. Free will, while totally and forever mysterious to us, is real. It cannot make sense for there to be some creative ability in reality, yet it is required for reality to exist. So determinists, get off your depressed ass, stop denying your most basic subjective experience, and start living! Life is fucking magic!