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Originally posted by rsl12
 yakk: basically the philosopher is question (I think it was sartre but I could be wrong) used this as a basis to say that God could never give a strong enough proof that such and such was what God wanted him to do. For all purported messages from God to him (or to the general populace), and for any conceivable hypothetical message, there always seems to be a more plausible argument about how that message came to be. Therefore, it's better to create a direction of life, a way of living, independently of any expectation of what God wants you to do. So goes the argument. Is it sartre? which work is it from?
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I can reduce it to an alien, a demon, a massive conspiracy, or an angel. Because I know questions that only one of the above could answer, yet I could verify the actual answer myself.
And really, if it is something as easy as living in a cave for a few years, any of the above organizations could force me to do it. The fact they are just asking me means they might be less polite if I said no. The ones which are benevolent would be most polite when I said no. Thus, why say no?
Now, if the angel requested I go and kill every first born child in the greater edumnton area, I'd tell it to go sit on its flaming sword.