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@RobertKaercher @mmfa His new book, which the thought controllers didn't read, days bin Laden carried out attacks
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@roeeorland @Wildharv @MattyBriggs96 My wife and I anonymously help people in need we know personally. This is society.
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@JoelPoindex @michaelmalice I just need to find out what other crazy things he believes.
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Left and right coexist happily on my Veterans Day show with Murray Polner, co-author with me of an antiwar book http://tomwoods.com/blog/veterans-day-episode-left-and-right-against-war/#.VGLFyDtBoeY.twitter … #tlot
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@FrankChurch5 The Puritans believed the Indians were white. So no, they weren't "racist." Another emotional hypochondriac.
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@FrankChurch5 You don't listen to my show much, do you? (When have I ever favored Manifest Destiny? Are you insane? A rhetorical question)
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@FrankChurch5 Ha, I know it. Haven't heard that one in a while, though. Wait... You're serious?
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@roeeorland @Wildharv @MattyBriggs96 Question premised on a fallacy, which I wanted to refute first. I assumed I knew I was a libertarian.
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@bhanna4d BTW, that wasn't sarcastic.
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@roeeorland Cheapskates in general have all kinds of ideas for what to do with other people's money. What do they ever do themselves?
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@roeeorland You believe in this principle: thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
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@rjt686 So you really don't think it's weird that thoughts get you written out of polite society, but support for mass murder doesn't? Wow.
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@roeeorland @Wildharv @MattyBriggs96 Already covered this on my show. You are asking for individual tutorials? I'm too busy creating content
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@roeeorland @Wildharv @MattyBriggs96 Of course we should help people. Government programs have been catastrophic. Help without violence.
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@roeeorland Sure we do. But not with violence, which is morally wrong.
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@JakeJacobs1776 As a Straussian, you think secession is "starting a war." I'm not giving you an individual tutorial.
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St. Thomas Aquinas and the Existence of God
On my program today I said I’d post a couple reading links, and since I don’t have a proper show notes page at TomWoodsRadio.com (a problem that’s being rectified as we speak, as the show is being moved over to this site), I’m posting them on this page. I’ll post more as they occur to me.
The key readings are:
Edward Feser,
The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
and
Edward Feser,
Aquinas.
Even though the Aquinas volume is in a “Beginners’ Guide” series, don’t be fooled: this is not easy reading. I suggest starting with the other book first.
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Chris • 15 days ago see moreI'm ashamed to admit that I was one of the obnoxious atheists you referred to in the beginning of the show. I left a snide comment on your blog in the summer of 2013, and you shot me down easily with Aquinas' arguments which I had never heard of before—the only arguments I had previously heard from theists were something like "because I have faith" or "because the bible says so", but admittedly I never sought out any real arguments because I am rarely confronted by theism, living in a largely atheist country in Europe. I cringe every time I think of how insulting my comment was, and I would like to offer an apology. I am still an atheist, but a far more humble one, thanks to you. -
Vee Voluntary • 15 days ago see moreThis is the first logical explanation I have ever heard of for the existence of God. I went to 8 years of Catholic school as a kid and the experience made me an atheist. I have been an agnostic for a long time, but after listening to this podcast, I might change my mind. Thanks. -
Guest • 14 minutes ago see moreHi, Eric. Emer. Prof. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains in his audio recording entitled "No, You're Not a Dummy For Believing in God" (TomWoodsTV, YouTube, Oct. 27, 2014) that, using the Thomistic terminology, an essentially ordered series requires the First Cause to contain all actuality and no potentiality, i.e., for it to be pure actuality; or, in other words, for the First Cause to be all potentiality fully realized, i.e., fully actualized.This by itself gives a rather detailed definition of God, since logically there are an infinite number of potentials which can be actualized, this requires the First Cause to be infinite action, i.e., that God is the collection of all action which is logically possible to take place, which includes all thoughts which are logically possible to think. Since the potential for such thoughts is logically infinite, we already have the concept that the First Cause must be infinite in intellect, i.e., that it is omniscient: having an infinite intelligence and knowing all that is logically possible to be known. We also have the concept of the First Cause being omnipotent, because it is the collection of all logically possible action, of which is infinite. Additionally, we have the concept of God being omnipresent, since as Emer. Prof. Woods explains in his aforecited audio lecture, a perfect copy of a thing is that thing. This is actually called the Law of Identity in the field of logic, which requires that A = A. Since God is the collection of all action, all actions are simply subsets of God. From the Law of Identity, we also get the concept of the Oneness of the First Cause, i.e., of monotheism, because to posit different Entity which had all these properties yet which is not in fact the Entity we had previously been discussing would be equivalent to saying that A != A.For much more on these matters, Eric, including the answers to your other concerns, see my below article, which details physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics. The Omega Point cosmology demonstrates that the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) require that the universe end in the Omega Point: the final cosmological singularity and state of infinite informational capacity having all the unique properties traditionally claimed for God, and of which is a different aspect of the Big Bang initial singularity, i.e., the first cause. The Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/details/Th... , http://theophysics.host56.com/... .Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , July 30, 2013, https://groups.google.com/foru... , http://archive.today/a04w9 .-
James Redford > Guest • 2 minutes ago see moreThe above reply to Eric was actually made by me, but Disqus bizarrely removed my authorship from the post because I tried to delete it (which is an option it gave, but obviously it didn't work correctly) so that I could instead make it a reply under Eric's post.
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Eric • 21 hours ago see moreI just listened to your show on God. Here you give a "logical" proof on the existence of God. My problem is that in the entire "proof" you never actually defined the term "God". In logic, one can never prove anything without beginning with assumptions (axioms) and definitions. In America and elsewhere, the term God is generally assumed to be the God of the bible, a being with human attributes such as jealousy, anger, needs, etc. If by "God" you mean the prime mover, and nothing else, then you might just as well call this the laws of physics in our universe. It's a far stretch, however, to go from that (which atheists all accept) to Yaweh of the old testament bible, or Jesus of the newer version.-
James Redford > Eric • 6 minutes ago see moreEric, Disqus is being naughty. See my reply to you above (or wherever within this thread Disqus chooses to place it at any particular time).
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James Redford • 2 days ago see moreInterestingly, God has been proven to exist based upon the most reserved view of the known laws of physics. For much more on that, see my below article, which details physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics. The Omega Point cosmology demonstrates that the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) require that the universe end in the Omega Point: the final cosmological singularity and state of infinite informational capacity having all the unique properties traditionally claimed for God, and of which is a different aspect of the Big Bang initial singularity, i.e., the first cause. The Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/details/Th... , http://theophysics.host56.com/... .Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , July 30, 2013, https://groups.google.com/foru... , http://archive.today/a04w9 . -
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Steffen • 15 days ago see moreI have one question about a thing, I did not understand. Maybe someone can help me out with this. It is clear, that god can't be perfectly good and perfectly bad at the same time, just as the egg, tom mentioned, can' be hot and cold at the same time. But why should we define badness as a lack of goodness (or cold as a lack of warmth) and not the other way around? To understand what I mean, maybe think about Goethe's attempt to show, that darkness is not a lack of light, but light a lack of darkness.-
Alexander Paulsen > Steffen • 15 days ago see moreI think what he was trying to say was the good an devil are not things per-se, evil is a lack of goodness like blindness is a lack of sight. Cold is a lack of heat energy - hot is just a generous supply of heat. hot and cold are relative to each other and not absolute things.-
Steffen > Alexander Paulsen • 15 days ago see moreIf you imagine a continuum between the poles goodness (g) and evil (e), the question is: why should g be the final stop? Chris and I already mentioned that you can think of it the other way around. But not only that. You can take every single point between g and e and do the same thing. Let's say there is a point x somewhere between g and e, why shouldn't god be
perfectly x instead of being perfectly g? After all god would have a potentiality to become x, if he where located on g. You can do that with every point on the continuum and get a negative definition of it. Why should we see g as a superior point to any other, if every state lacks something to be be any other state? -
Chris > Alexander Paulsen • 15 days ago see moreI could just as easily define goodness as a lack of evil.
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Andy • 16 days ago see moreGreat resource Tom. Trent Horn has a good resource page I've used for better defending/arguing that there are good reasons to believe in the existence of God. -
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