Monday, 21 March 2016
Is the internet too small?
Either there are less than seventy thousand people on the internet or something else is going on because www.sm.net does not exist, as of the 21st of March 2016. If only one in a hundred people on the internet have ever created a website with two letters, like the acronym of a company name, or of something like, in this case, sadism and masochism, and only one in a hundred of those use .net as the top level domain, seventy thousand people should be enough for www.sm.net to be created. The question is, why hasn't it been? Is the internet too small? Or what else could be going on?
Saturday, 19 March 2016
Why do I believe what I believe? Because of Occam's Razor. Looking at the same evidence, I'll examine two world views. One of naturalism and my world view. I'll examine the assumptions made and the explanatory power. The evidence is all of the circumstantial evidence, including probability-defying signs of God and the persistent feeling that someone who loves me was sharing a secret with me and that my intuition about the evidence was accurate.
From a naturalistic perspective, it must be assumed that my explanation is incorrect, because it's supernatural, that my supernatural explanations happened all by chance and either that they can all happen by chance because of something and this the explanation for them all happening by chance is natural. The naturalistic explanation makes three assumptions and explains the evidence.
My explanation, on the other hand, is that my intuition is always right and because of this, and my intuition saying that it is certain (thanks to evidence that it is certain) that God made the evidence happen, there is a God and that God made the evidence happen. Note that I don't assume either of these two things. I deduce them from the assumption that my intuition is always correct. The evidence made my intuition say that these two other things are true. My intuition is now that my intuition is always right, even if it ever appears to be wrong. This justifies me in believing that my intuition is always right. My explanation makes only one assumption and explains all the evidence, as well as everything I experience; the explanation, according to my explanation, is that God made it that way, as my intuition says.
My explanation makes the fewest assumptions possible, unless you can have an infinite belief system, with no starting assumption, and explains the most possible. It's also self-justifying, making it justified and therefore rational. How do you explain that? So, do you want to help me prove to the world that something in my life is supernatural? Please contact me either by adding a comment, either here or on Reddit, with an explanation of how I can do that using my biased randomness, if God allows it. Don't worry, he's in control.
From a naturalistic perspective, it must be assumed that my explanation is incorrect, because it's supernatural, that my supernatural explanations happened all by chance and either that they can all happen by chance because of something and this the explanation for them all happening by chance is natural. The naturalistic explanation makes three assumptions and explains the evidence.
My explanation, on the other hand, is that my intuition is always right and because of this, and my intuition saying that it is certain (thanks to evidence that it is certain) that God made the evidence happen, there is a God and that God made the evidence happen. Note that I don't assume either of these two things. I deduce them from the assumption that my intuition is always correct. The evidence made my intuition say that these two other things are true. My intuition is now that my intuition is always right, even if it ever appears to be wrong. This justifies me in believing that my intuition is always right. My explanation makes only one assumption and explains all the evidence, as well as everything I experience; the explanation, according to my explanation, is that God made it that way, as my intuition says.
My explanation makes the fewest assumptions possible, unless you can have an infinite belief system, with no starting assumption, and explains the most possible. It's also self-justifying, making it justified and therefore rational. How do you explain that? So, do you want to help me prove to the world that something in my life is supernatural? Please contact me either by adding a comment, either here or on Reddit, with an explanation of how I can do that using my biased randomness, if God allows it. Don't worry, he's in control.
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