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progress:
(page 49 of 191)
"The free will response to theodicy is also bankrupt. Lewis says he can't imagine a world in which free beings don't go astray. And he's a fiction author! Therefore, I can only suppose that he didn't really try to imagine such a world but rather simply wrote it off. God could have made it much easier to believe in him. An omnipotent god would be aware, although Lewis wasn't, of behavioural nudging." — Jul 22, 2025 12:12AM
"The free will response to theodicy is also bankrupt. Lewis says he can't imagine a world in which free beings don't go astray. And he's a fiction author! Therefore, I can only suppose that he didn't really try to imagine such a world but rather simply wrote it off. God could have made it much easier to believe in him. An omnipotent god would be aware, although Lewis wasn't, of behavioural nudging." — Jul 22, 2025 12:12AM
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"I've been a staunch proponent of the view that increasing economic growth is the easiest & perhaps best lever to pull for people interested in increasing human welfare since I read Cowen's 'Stubborn Attachments' years ago. It was therefore interesting to read in chapter 3 of this volume the argument that the harms of an ageing population, obesity & climate change will be offset by the benefits of BAU economic growth." — Jul 19, 2025 01:36AM
"I've been a staunch proponent of the view that increasing economic growth is the easiest & perhaps best lever to pull for people interested in increasing human welfare since I read Cowen's 'Stubborn Attachments' years ago. It was therefore interesting to read in chapter 3 of this volume the argument that the harms of an ageing population, obesity & climate change will be offset by the benefits of BAU economic growth." — Jul 19, 2025 01:36AM
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
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“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
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“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
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Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
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