112. Graham Oppy | Religion

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  • @CjqNslXUcM
    @CjqNslXUcM 5 месяцев назад +13

    I love listening to Oppy. He's doing a great service by agreeing to appear on non-academic platforms.

  • @mark110292
    @mark110292 5 месяцев назад

    Whoa. The hit list continues. Brilliant. Vital.

    • @Friction
      @Friction  5 месяцев назад +6

      Peter van Inwagen next week!

  • @justus4684
    @justus4684 5 месяцев назад +11

    Certified *Soo* moment

    • @dr.h8r
      @dr.h8r 5 месяцев назад +1

      Saaauuuwww

  • @Overonator
    @Overonator 5 месяцев назад +7

    The Oppynator!

  • @MajestyofReason
    @MajestyofReason 5 месяцев назад +15

    So…

    • @Friction
      @Friction  5 месяцев назад +11

      When you compare the theories...

    • @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
      @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices 5 месяцев назад

      So so.

    • @VaughanMcCue
      @VaughanMcCue 5 месяцев назад

      You can run The Opps at 2X because the Ozzi talks so slowly. It might be because they have been upside down their whole lives, and their heads have too much blood pressure.

    • @coyork15
      @coyork15 4 месяца назад

      Right

  • @jmike2039
    @jmike2039 5 месяцев назад +13

    P1. If oppy exists, then I have hands
    P2. Oppy exists
    C. Therefore, I have hands
    Oppy solves every problem.

    • @bman5257
      @bman5257 5 месяцев назад +1

      I’m suspicious of premise 1, I could definitely foresee a world in which Oppy exists and yet where it is not the case that you have hands. If you are younger than Oppy than premise 1 at one point in time was false, as you did not yet have hands.

    • @jmike2039
      @jmike2039 5 месяцев назад

      @@bman5257 no that violates well established metaphysical principles

    • @bman5257
      @bman5257 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@jmike2039 [I disintegrate immediately in response]

  • @G_Doggy_Jr
    @G_Doggy_Jr 3 месяца назад +1

    Your channel has great guests, but whenever I try to watch one of the videos, I always turn it off because the audio issues make it hard for me to understand you. It's as if the start of each sentence is cut off. Seemingly, the audio quality is perfectly acceptable for many viewers. Still, for what it's worth, if you improved your audio setup, I would watch more of your videos.

  • @hiker-uy1bi
    @hiker-uy1bi 5 месяцев назад +6

    Regarding Kalam, don't our best physics say that quantum fields don't have to be "caused" by anything? There's nothing ruling out that such fields could have existed forever. From these fields we see early cosmology, inflation, big bang, etc.

    • @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
      @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices 5 месяцев назад

      🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
      Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can possibly be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
      According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, the Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.).
      In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving!
      Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
      Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual.
      APPARENTLY, this universe, composed of “mind and matter”, was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
      Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
      “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
      This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything is Infinite Awareness).
      HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
      Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
      Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism.
      As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
      Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
      There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
      1. Guilt
      2. Blame
      3. Pride
      4. Anxiety
      5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
      These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
      The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above.
      Cont...

    • @sparephone3846
      @sparephone3846 5 месяцев назад

      No, this is exactly where physics fails. It implies the laws of nature are already formulated. There is no explanation of why the laws of physics take the form they do. I agree some physicist are very happy with this idea e.g. Lawrence Krauss. Kalam idea is obviously propagated by William Lane Craig, though clearly taken from Muslim theologians and the Qur'aan. I actually don't think Oppy has really though through the implications of the kalam argument. His negation of this implies time already exists.

  • @muhammadshahedkhanshawon3785
    @muhammadshahedkhanshawon3785 5 месяцев назад

    Does analytic philosophy hold this view that contingency means dependency?or it's base upon conceivability?like i can imagine fail to exist?

    • @Friction
      @Friction  5 месяцев назад +2

      The term "contingency" has multiple uses. Sometimes, it's used to refer to some kind of dependency. In many philosophical contexts, however, it's used to refer to something that is true or exists but is not necessarily true/does not necessarily exist.

  • @daviddivad777
    @daviddivad777 5 месяцев назад

    please interview Emanuel Rutten.

    • @VaughanMcCue
      @VaughanMcCue 5 месяцев назад

      Please interview JC, John Cleese, the comic messiah.

  • @intelligentdesign2295
    @intelligentdesign2295 5 месяцев назад

    Richard Swinburne "The Existence Of God"
    and
    David Conway "Rediscovery Of Wisdom"
    - the best book that defended theism.

    • @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
      @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices 5 месяцев назад

      Are you a THEIST? 🤔
      If so, what are the reasons for your BELIEF in God? 🤓

    • @intelligentdesign2295
      @intelligentdesign2295 5 месяцев назад

      @@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
      One of the reasons is that primitive cultures ALREADY have an idea of God. The old theories that the idea of God developed from polytheism or animism do not stand up to criticism and are not supported by ethnographic data. If you are interested in the phenomenon of monotheism in primitive tribes, then I strongly recommend reading the book: Winfried Corduan "In The Beginning God:A Fresh Look At The Case For Original Monotheism". As well as the books by Mircea Eliade "Aspects of Myth" and "Treatise on the History of Religion" in which he also describes the phenomenon of monotheism among less developed cultures well.

    • @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices
      @SpiritualPsychotherapyServices 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@intelligentdesign2295, there’s only one TINY little problem with what you wrote above, Sir.☝🏼
      There has never been, nor will there ever be, even the SLIGHTEST shred of evidence for the existence of the Godhead, that is, a Supreme Person, or Deity.‬🤓
      It is high time for humanity to awaken from all INANE superstitions such as the belief in a Personal God who created the Universe, would you not agree? 😩

    • @VaughanMcCue
      @VaughanMcCue 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@intelligentdesign2295
      Everything is possible in the magical kingdom.

    • @markpaul1383
      @markpaul1383 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@intelligentdesign2295 Hello. Thank you for the comment involving monotheism. It seems like the OT has many texts that can only be understood properly by taking them to involve polytheism. I take the "sons of god" and divine council passages in Job 1:6, 38:7 to be sufficient, but Psalm 82:1, 6 and Psalm 89:6 also make the point that Israel's God is among other gods in a council of gods. Lastly, the most natural reading of Exodus 20:3 involves thinking that there are other gods to avoid worshipping (not that one shouldn't worship something called a god that doesn't exist because one ought only to worship the existent God). So, I'm not sure what ethnographic data you are referring to, but polytheism is in Jewish and Christian texts.

  • @JohnSmith-bq6nf
    @JohnSmith-bq6nf 5 месяцев назад

    Great video you think we see more of this style on youtube but you dont

  • @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic.
    @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic. 2 месяца назад

    Reality exists as eternity and infinity & the only way “nothing” exists is because something (the reality that is existence) ordered that to be. Existence itself is without creation. If you think that’s not intelligent after an eternal amount of time to be alone in its singular position as an infinite state of being, then you believe in luck. Have fun with that and good luck.
    Stephen Hawking said it like this. Nothing is perfect. Without our imperfections, nothing would exist. So either nothing exists as perfection to be available for us, or nothing is imperfect and available for us. And simultaneously “nothing” available to not exist if you order that to be. Either way, we have a lot more than nothing to thank for the present that is the present 🎁, the gift 💝 of life with freedom to Love thanks be to Love itself that is the only Truth to set us free like that.

    • @oldpossum57
      @oldpossum57 2 месяца назад +2

      I love when theists pronounce on cosmology…without having learned the maths to understand the theories. How wonderful for primate brains evolved to hunt and gather under African skies to effortlessly know so much about the Realm outside of/ prior to the Universe…because they have, what shall we call it?, an intuition.

    • @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic.
      @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic. 2 месяца назад

      @@oldpossum57 I love it how atheists miraculously create truth, logic, love, and reason. All from inanimate random objects (that serve no purpose and have no value or meaning) floating around inside their brains.
      How glorious their reflected image in a mirror must be to see themselves as god like creators of Truth, Love, Life, & Freedom.
      Sure we’re all free to serve anything we like. But we’re not creators of that meaning or purpose or value to Life itself. Nor do we grant the inherent Freedom of any human ever to exist.
      Our intuition to Love is not one any human may take credit for, yet atheists often neglect to give Love any value or meaning beyond the chemicals reacting in their brain. Then go on in life to take a knee and propose to their spouse as if their Love for a partner is valuable, meaningful, true, and a word that represents a factual bond. Atheists lack a foundation of truth and love, as they are ungrateful for the freedoms they’ve been granted in Life. Or possibly grateful, but to many gods of which many are created by their own random processes inside their brain.
      How might an atheist claim their Love is True when so many object’s in their reality have more meaning, value, and purpose? How might an atheist claim those they love are meaningful & valuable when they are not grateful to Love itself for the Life it gifted? How might an atheist claim their worldview is greater than the Truth that is Love itself?
      Atheists often trip over the Truth and swiftly get back up to walk away before anyone sees what happened. Leaving their free will behind, moving on serving random intuitions they are willing to leave undefined.

    • @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic.
      @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic. 2 месяца назад

      @@oldpossum57 I love when RUclips deletes my replies and an atheist magically creates life, freedom, truth, logic, reason, & love from random meaningless objects floating around without any purpose inside a human brain.
      If love is simply a chemical reaction in a brain, as was previously suggested, what are those chemicals reacting to? If Love is not the Truth, then why do you tell your family & friends that? If life was created from inanimate objects that have no meaning, purpose, or objective; then what Life gave humans freedom to do that on our own? To what do we owe our thanks, for giving us the present, that is the present 🎁, the gift 💝 of Life 💞 ❤️ 💗💓🫀❤️‍🔥🫶🏼, with Freedom to Love?
      Do we simply credit the 1st humans to procreate & survive? That leads to infinite regress. Which leads to what moved 1st? 1, 0.1, 0, 0^0 = 1, 0! = 1?
      Surely life has a material body and nature to its existence. But the depths of a mind do not fit inside our tiny brain unless we’re willing to let it stay imprisoned in that way.
      The largest gap to be bridged for an atheist is NOT one between the origins of the universe from nothing, life from death, defining gender, or what was 1st the chicken or egg, male or female. The largest gap for the atheist is the longest 12” distance measured in the universe and that’s the gap between the brain and the heart. This is not a god of gaps theory. This is the gap between love and truth that an atheist will deny their own personal free will to intentionally leave behind their freedom.
      “The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or heard, but must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
      “You don’t judge a Navy Seal by the size of their muscles or paddle. You measure them by their character and size of their heart.” Admiral ‘Wild Bill’ McCraven

    • @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic.
      @Truth.n.Love.is.God.BCatholic. 2 месяца назад

      @@oldpossum57 let’s put it this way. I have faith I’m right, you have faith you’re using rational logical reasoning to evaluate the truth.
      1. The truth about what exists before the universe, actually exists. We’re not able to determine that. We can speculate and bear witness to the truth to determine what’s logical and rational as True.
      As science has proven there is no proof. Why? The universe expands faster than the speed of light and prevents us from seeing the outer regions of the universe. Leaving us no possible way to examine that.
      The last time we checked, Stephen Hawking put it like this. “Nothing is perfect. Without our imperfections, nothing would exist.” While he simultaneously agreed with the Bible that the universe was created out of nothing. Neglecting to mention what or who created it out of nothing.
      2. Either I’m right and we’ll prove that when we meet our maker. Where the truth will be further revealed. Or!
      I’m wrong and neither of us are right. Because “right” does not exist in a universe of subjective opinions about nothing. A universe where life is created by meaningless random chance and dumb luck correlates to our own chemicals in our brain imposing their meaningless will on our beliefs and leaving us no reason to value life as much as we do, and gives us very little reason to believe our will is free. Where our logic and reason is without an objective to love because love does not exist as the truth. Therefore the truth exists in a reality in which we don’t matter. Why? Because if I’m here by dumb luck, then I’m a human being dumb. If I’m here by random chance, this is one big mistake. Where neither of us will ever know who was right and all we’ll both ever be was wrong and next to nothing.