No. No. I don't accept Jordan Peterson's consideration regarding what constitutes ✌️✊️✌️God✌️✊️✌️ because HIGHER-ORDER ABSTRACTIONS DID NOT CREATE THE UNIVERSE.
Hym "But that's what he does! He creates this '*blank* is my God' paradigm where he conflates 'God' with ANY HIGHER-ORDER ABSTRACTION THAT MOTIVATES BEHAVIOR so the HE can USE THAT CONFLATION when he needs to make a point. So, to Jordan Peterson, God is LITERALLY whatever he needs it to be, moment to moment, to get people to do what he wants people to do (Marry his daughter, give him your money). And THAT LOGIC... Also applies to ANY HIGHER-ORDER ABSTRACTION. So GOD and ANY HIGHER-ORDER ABSTRACTION... Are synonymous. Maturity? Whatever he needs it to be, moments to moment. Pride? Whatever he needs it to be, moment to moment. I reject his conceptualization of God entirely. There is A WAY IN WHICH you could CONSIDER that 'God' (in like a broad, abstract sense) but THAT ISN'T WHAT IT IS IN THE BOOK! A higher-order abstraction did not tell Moses to liberate the Jews. A Saul didn't disobey a higher-order abstraction. Maturity didn't order Saul to slaughter all of the men, women, children, and cattle of the Amalekites and then (subsequently) exiles Saul for NOT DOING THAT. Saul didn't murder them hard enough... So he got 13 year old David to murder them right, and then gave a literal child psychopath the title of king. That wasn't 'Money' that did that. It wasn't Fame, or Justice, Or, Truth, Or Warm-Fussies. So, no. And the guy in the book that had ACTUAL LINES OF DIALOGUE... Either created the universe... Or it DID NOT DO THAT... If it DIDN'T you're lying."
by Hym Iam May 23, 2024
Get the *Blank* is my God mug.A dismissive rhetorical move, often used in debates about religion or spirituality, where someone demands physical proof of the divine—"Where is your God? Show me!"—as if the absence of physical evidence proves non-existence. The fallacy lies in demanding a kind of evidence that the claim, by its nature, doesn't offer. Spiritual experiences aren't physical objects; divine reality, if it exists, may not be empirically accessible in the way rocks and trees are. The demand for physical proof of non-physical claims is category error dressed as skepticism.
"I tried to explain my spiritual experiences. Response: 'Where is your God? Show me a photo!' That's Where-Is-Your-God Fallacy—demanding physical evidence for what may not be physical. Spiritual claims aren't scientific hypotheses; they're about meaning, experience, and transcendence. Demanding empirical proof is like demanding to hear a painting. Wrong tool for the domain."
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Chad: Serbian artillery is led by the hand of god
Incel: NO ITS NOT POSSIBLE THE USA HAS BETTER ARTILLERY
Chad: but it says here in this song. and besides Serbia had a budget,while the USA spends so much
Incel, humbled: ok
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Chad: but it says here in this song. and besides Serbia had a budget,while the USA spends so much
Incel, humbled: ok
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