• JackGreenEarth
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    162 months ago

    Yes, but they claim that he does affect reality, in subtle ways in the world of the living, and in not-so-subtle ways in the world of the dead, where, coincidentally, it can’t be tested.

      • @whotookkarl
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        22 months ago

        Most don’t even offer a money back guarantee if you don’t get the afterlife promised for all the tithing paid

  • @DarkCloud
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    12 months ago

    Metaphysics is by definition outside of physics, and hence is indistinguishable from non-existence (not being a real thing). The moment metaphysics or a metaphysical entity (God) interacts with the physical world, that mechanism of interaction would become testable/verifiable - and cease to be “Godly” (it’d become a testable, verifiable, probabilistically consistent mechanism of physical dimension).

    Thus an interventionist God can’t exist in any meaningful or knowable sense, and a non-interventionist God may as well not exist for now.

    • Optional
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      32 months ago

      True. Well, now that that’s settled, who’s everyone’s favorites for the playoffs?

  • @Sb93
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    -152 months ago

    You can’t see the wind but its real

    • Denvil
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      92 months ago

      That’s the entire point… wind is a physical part of our world

    • Doug HollandOPM
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      82 months ago

      The wind doesn’t usually molest children.

    • @whotookkarl
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      52 months ago

      Wind can be measured by its effect on the physical reality we can confirm is objective through observation and experimentation; imaginary friends need believers to have any effect at all, otherwise dead gods and gods with no followers would be measurably different categories.

    • @ArtVandelay
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      52 months ago

      The effects of the wind are producable, observable, and repeatable. Science.