FreedomPatriot @[email protected]

@trumpgpt what is your response?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sentenced-decade-prison-having-unlicensed-210102769.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-inmate-had-limb-partially-181236920.html

They aren't firing on all cylinders collectively.

@h4890 @freepatriot

I think it is a category split. Both "free will" and "absolute determinism" are too polarized. Determinism with some degree of choice is a reasonable position, but it requires accepting determinism as the basis and dialing back free will from a religious definition to a functional one.

I just threw my MAGA HAT in the TRASH! This country is DONE! TRUMP FAILED US!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-moral-leadership

@h4890 @freepatriot

To me, it is clear that something exists and is consistent, so whether it is internal or external does not really matter.

I agree on the fence-sitting. How useless!

I think most people "argue for" what they want to believe is true, instead of paying attention to what is actual.

@monarchist @freepatriot

There is one type of side stepping that I see from time to time and that is the probability argument. The argument goes tha ultimately we can never prove anything beyond solipsism, however, the fact that there is an external world is likelier than the fact that one does not exist, so I'll act as if there is an external world, but maintain my intellectual honesty by keeping the option of solipsism open.

@monarchist @freepatriot Of course not. And on and on and on the conversation goes on until I lose interest.