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The credibility of Buddhism has been damaged? Disagree. Modern attainments have highlighted the truths of Buddhism (of all three major schools).In Buddhism we have literal, actual, and constant evidence of the Truth of the Blessed One. Meditate for a month, read the core Pali texts, and witness your life change utterly, literally, inalterably. No faith required. Also, the idea of “evil” does not really exist in Buddhism. In order for it to exist (in the Christian context of the word) there would have to be, as in Christianity, a dehumanization of human beings who are regarded as “evil” and… eternally disposable, which is deeply barbaric. PS… you left out the very, very important core concept of the non-self and the irrationality of the existence of the self.

Could you try and explain the answers that you have given in this Video in a syllogism or could you simplify you‘re Video for me to understand?

Are you in 2:23 saying that a libertarian must try to argue Maximal atonomy?

Initial and most importantly step with this problem.. Is what the Germanic term God actually means according to it's linguistic etymology.. As opposed to what is assumed to mean..

Bro is literally a version of me in the future. Much love brother ❤

*Ian McGilchrist entered the chat* Still loving your videos!

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This was so great! Thank you!

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My grandfather was a pastor, my uncle was a pastor too and when I was old enough to understand what they were reading I immediately was confused on why everyone was ok with and loved the god of the Bible when I could clearly see he was evil and a lord/master of the slaves that worship him and even forced you to worship him or die the fact that no one could see that made me feel very alone it wasn't until many years later when I learned about the gnastics and spiritually thati realized it was mainly the western world that were programed into that cult and today you can see it all much clearer and it all makes sense now it's literally the programming and it's been in the works since the beginning eyes to see and ears to hear is quite literal and is say you must see through the lies and Crack the codes when you reasurch everything all religions , astrology, cosmology, quantum physics, ancient text's and history it all very clear disturbing but clear the only Way is within and I see it all coming out finally I hope to see it happen and for us to finally be free

I think that I just came up with a new theodicy which I would call the "Eis Theodoxan Theodicy" ("Eis Theodoxan" is a Greek phrase which means "For divine glory" or "For God's glory"). This theodicy basically states that God allows moral evil to exist, happen and flourish for a temporary amount of time so that the glory of His attributes; namely, grace and justice, may be demonstrated and manifested through evil. Let us first talk about how God's grace is demonstrated and manifested through evil, and then we will talk about how God's justice is demonstrated and manifested through evil. Throughout The Bible, we see many instances of God forgiving and showing His mercy and patience to evil, wicked, sinful people who do not deserve His forgiveness, mercy and patience. Take, for instance, King David the Son of Jesse, who committed adultery with Bathsheba, and had her husband murdered. But God, instead of striking King David dead, showed mercy upon King David, and still allowed him to live and repent of his sin. Take, for instance, Cain the Son of Adam, who murdered his brother Abel out of jealousy and hatred. But God, instead of striking Cain dead just as he struck his brother dead, allowed Cain to live, and even allowed him to marry his wife, have offspring, and start a civilization. Take, for instance, Paul the Apostle, who used to be a violent persecutor and enemy of the Church, who would break into the homes of Christians and drag them away to their dreadful demise. But God poured out His grace upon Paul abundantly, and transformed him, from being a violent persecutor and enemy of the Church, into one of His greatest apostles. Take, for instance, Adam and Eve; our first parents, who ate of the fruit that they were forbidden to eat, but God, instead of striking them dead and banishing their souls to Hell the moment they ate the fruit, allowed them to live and have children, and promised that a Savior will come. Now let us talk about how God's justice is manifested through evil. God's justice is manifested through evil because when God punishes, defeats and destroys evil, His justice is glorified.

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I study Advaita Vedanta and Dzogchen, Vajrayana. Along with Christian Mysticism, Hermeticism, etc. If you look closely at some of the Naga Lokas, you will see that one of their rulers is in charge of sensusal temptation in humans. Sounds familiar huh? In the Helenistic system that influence is Venus. This sealed the deal for me on the fractal consciousness hierarchy.

Here's a simple representation of the regress problem regarding the formulation of Free Will as requiring complete independence from any and all prior causes, in the form of a logical syllogism: Premise 1: Free Will requires independence from all prior causes. Premise 2: Our existence is contingent on prior causes, including our birth. Conclusion: Therefore, if Free Will necessitates independence from all prior causes, we wouldn't exist to have any form of will, free or otherwise. This syllogism highlights the potential absurdity or self-defeating nature of a definition of Free Will that demands complete independence from all prior causes; ie, this formulation of Free Will results in the commission of a fallacy of proving too much.

I doubt that pleasures is the sole primary goal. More likely I'd say there are a myriad of primaries competing with each other. Nevertheless, I still don't think that gets you to free will. It only complicates the problem. Maximizing two variables that depend on each other is still a maxing problem. I can grand that the self loathing person isn't acting out of a desire for pleasure, but they still want to act in accordance with what the believe they deserve. This is desire can be boiled down to some primary, and for whatever reason that overruled their desire for pleasure. Another person may value pleasure more highly and therefore would choose pleasure anyways evennif the think they don't deserve it. The only way around this I see is to somehow act contrary to what you believe will maximize your primary desires, but you already conceded that we only act according to what we want or what we're being forced to do, so I don't see how you get to free will.

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Love how you put the perjoratives right in the description. Shame on you.

To me, free wil is the ability to act according to one's will, without being forced to act against it. I'll grant that we can't choose our desires, but why are we assuming the desires are outside of the self? To me, my desires are a part of my nature. As long as I'm acting in accordance with that nature and its desires, I consider that free will, because it's a part of myself imposing my wants on me. I think asking for free will to choose to change your essential nature is absurd and not what "free will" means in common parlance anyway.

Great video! I respect your ability to think critically and share these ideas in such a way that compels others to think 'outside the box', if you will. Do you remember the end of Men in Black 2? Camera zooms out faaaaaar away from Earth, then the Milky Way, then the Universe itself (as a cinematic representation, if nothing else) until all of our 'reality' is shown to be nothing more than a marble that a little kid was playing with. Not to say this is necessarily 'true' but it's an extremely interesting perspective to consider. As above, So below. Microcosm and macrocosm, are indeed, ONE and the same. I understand so little but love to ponder the nature of things regardless. For each answer we find opens up many more questions... Appreciate the video, keep up the good work! Peace & Love.

Intriguing video. Are you familiar with Dustin Crummett and Brian Cutter’s argument from psychophysical harmony for theism? Also, are you familiar with Joshua Rasmussen’s work. His most recent book “Who are you Really?” touches on direct realism vs representationalism and other theories of perception. Good stuff.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

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Let's say we COULD somehow magically step outside of ourselves and pick our fundamental desires. We would simply choose the exact same things, because those are the things WE desire. If you're talking about changing my fundamental desires, then the person you would end up with would not be me, but a different person.

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I"m not a know it all. I was in the church every sunday when I was a child and I put in the work and research that it takes for certain beliefs. Just saying.

Underrated, people don’t understand nor appreciate

the son = nirmanakaya the holy spirit = sambogakaya the father = Dharmakaya

The ability to choose what we want to do doesn't mean we have to constantly change what we want or somehow choose both options simultaneously. If I must make a choice between two things and I choose one thing, it just confirms that I had a choice between two things and made a choice. The whole scenario begins by assuming that a choice must be made and once a choice is made it confirms that premise - that I really had a choice between two things. Alex claims that making a choice somehow proves I didn't have a choice, but it proves the opposite. Whatever may have influenced the particular choice is not part of the scenario - Alex needs to smuggle that in after a choice is made in order to argue that there really was no choice to be made.

I agree with you but not for the reasons you stated. 1) Feelings and the will are two separate phenomenal. There is a big difference between feeling hungry and wanting to eat. Sometimes you have to stop something you feel like doing, like sleeping, to do something you don't feel like doing, like going to work. There is no positive emotion guiding you, feelings are not the will. 2) It's stupid to consider a want (will, not feeling) as something separate from yourself. Free will is a power of the self much like movement of the power of the atom. Your wants are your natural powers, not something external to you causing you to do what you want. 3) The burden of proof is in the sceptic. Just like it would be absurd to believe me if I told you that you have a second blind spot without evidence, the burden is on the free will denier since it's clearly experienced directly by our consciousness just like every other scientific fact, and the effects are also observed. The cities didn't build themselves, someone wanted to build them. Not only is this overwhelming positive evidence for free will, they have zero evidence against free will. All brain studies of free will are fundamental understandings of what free will actually is.

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do u have proof for this?

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when narcissistic misogynists learn about gnosticism you get real interesting results. this video is so unhinged lmfao.

The serpent did lie to eve I refuse to believe that the true high God manifested as a lying snake 🐍

Will comes at a cost, stating its free is preposterous. "I want! I want! I want! to sail the 7 seas, I will! I will! I will! at the cost of 20 trees!"

What a cult system. I wouldnt go there. I have to shake my brain back to normal now. Thanks a lot.

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As Schopenhauer puts it, "Man can do what he wills, but cannot will what he wills". This logic is solid, i don't think you have been successiful in this video. The fact that we are not infinite beings is precisely the reason for why we don't have free will. Imagine that i try to acknowledge what my highest desire is. If i'm not able to do it, i means there is some unknown desire outside my conscious control and awareness. If i could do such thing, i would then ask myself why i have such desire. If i don't know the reason, it means this desire was put there by something beyond of my conscious control (no free will). If i do know the reason, and this reason is outside of me, then no free will; and if the reason is within me, it means that such desire must have been put there by another desire, and that one by another one, and so on and so forth, until i reach the previous case again. That definiton of free will from Carl Young can't even be called free will. That is more like acceptance of fate.

Why assume that its bad that exists? Why not its good that evil exists, but evil is not good.

Every aspect of our cognitive tapestry [determines / tethers] our actions/choices/considerations. This precludes our actions/choices/considerations of ever being [free / untethered]. So, IF one insists that there must be "free will", I am left to ask *"How can one's will be free/untethered from how such is formed and how such operates?"*

It seems from my understanding right now that we have our wants from our cells which are determined by a random universe which makes our decisions absolutely random. If we're made by God we are given our will by God and can't be held accountable which is calvinistic. Either one, I despise both. Or I guess my cells do, or I was predetermined to....

You wanted to make this video and you didnt have any free will when you made it, you now may WANT to respond to my comment, I WANTED to write this, if you reading this dont want to responde anymore to my comment, YOU WANT TO NOT DO IT

That's Lenin and not Nietzsche.

Interesting!