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1.1-3 summary and by extension authority to Titus QV here
3 ideas for generating ideas (Lingdskoog) QVH
4 cases with distinctions - how guilty are they? What should be done?
A writer is a gracious guest in his reader's brain (don't bore, insult the reader or waste his time)
Against 'agent-causation' and 'self-forming actions' ideas (Baggini)
Against Kant's noumena as an evidence-free gap theory
Apostle as authority to reveal and announce a message
Apostle, apostleship
At first everyone was searching for the one gene to explain this or that characteristic or behavior. Now that was waned.
At his appointed season (Towner N) QV HERE
Augustine quote on foreknowledge not canceling free will
Baggini on importance of free will debate
Balance of knowledge, truth with godly life (me)
Bar
Baz
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin as the inventor of pros and cons lists
Benjamin Franklin forced to leave England
Chance doesn't help us escape from determinism. If led by chance = I don't know what came over me
Chaos theory saves us from determinism?
Character
Command of God stresses Paul's authority (Towner)
Compatibilists really want to believe we are the conscious source for our actions
Connection with Rom 16:25; 1 Cor 2:6ff.; Eph 3:4–7, 8–11. 2 Tim 1.9-10
Conscience
Conservatives underplay luck and fetishize individual effort
Conservatives vs liberals
Consumerism
Counseling techniques
Creativity
Dangers of life online QVH
Dawkins: humans as survival machines to preserve selfish genes
Decisionmaking
Describing our vacations and other memories (me)
Determinism doesn't mean we don't know what we are doing or that our decisions don't change anything. 56 defense of compatibilism
Determinism is not the same as fatalism
Discussion of identical twins, nature and nurture. Margaret and Helen (Baggini)
Domains
Einstein did not believe in free will
Entrusted to me, see 1 Cor 9:17; Gal 2:7; 1 Thess 2:4, 1 Tim 1.11
Epigenetics shows that inherited traits get switched on in certain environments
Eschatology, history of
Etymology of Misa (the Mass) QVH
Evaluating web sources (and other sources) - list
Even if 99% of our cognition is unconscious, that doesn't mean that the conscious part isn't important or strategic
Even our best efforts are because we inherited this from genes, experience, etc, no room for our credit
Example of hidden text that will static
Faith and works
Faith here as the act of faith Tit 1.1 towner n
Foo
Framing
France, superior cannonballs, energy, and the Reevolutionary War
Franklin, electricity, and the kite experiment
Franklin, Priestley, creation care, and the anticipation of ecosystems
Free will
Free Will (Harris)
Free will is important in law, because people need to be held responsible for crimes
Freedom Regained (Baggini)
Genes are not shackles. They just give us a field of possibilities
God as Savior in 1.3 > Jesus as Savior in 1.4 QVH
God not lying also in (Heb 6:18; Num 23:19; Rom 3:3–4) Towner N
God's foreknowledge
Godliness Towner N, see excursus at 1 Tim 2.2
Governments and nudge theory - manipulating people unconsciously
Harris: either unconscious prior causes determine our actions, or chance, not us
Helpful to realize that our beliefs are influenced by things beyond our control. Humility to consider others' beliefs because they are from different nature and nurture
History of invention and technology
Hope not "I hope so" but confidence based on promises (me)
How to process this? Jared Diamond counterintuitive on relief vs regret in cases of vengeance enacted or not
HQ
Hypnotized people confabulate. Harris: so do we. We are being led by things we are unaware of. Our idea of agency is wrong.
If we rewound the tape 1000x, we would still make the same decision. So are we free? Baggini says yes. Marriage proposal illo. In //this// situation you could not do otherwise, but in different situations you could
In Pursuit of the Common Good (Newman and Hotchner)
Is consciousness part of matter or not? And panphysicists
Is our unconscious neurophysiology as much a part of us as our conscious thoughts?
It is good that we don't have to consciously think about breathing or combing our hair
Jesus is Savior, not the emperor (Towner N)
Joseph Priestley
Jumping overboard humorous illo about determinism
Kata here as: for the purpose of, to bring about, or (as the TNIV) to further
Kerygma (Towner) QV HERE
kretizo means to play the Cretan = to lie
Laplace's demon: past causes the present, present causes the future. Prior physical causes
Letters to Timothy and Titus (Towner NICNT)
List of key terms 1.1-4 developed in Titus (Towner N), vv
List of things we inherit from our genes. So are genes a threat to free will? (Baggini)
London Coffee houses and the Honest Whigs
Many scientists are laplacian. To a hammer, everything is a nail.
me
Me: Harris sets the bar too high re free will
Memory
Mental states that emerge from our neural actions do constrain the very brain activity that gave rise to them
Mind - miscellaneous physical file folder
Mind and intellect, general
Mindfulness shows us that a lot of our thinking is generated unconsciously
Misunderstanding stats like 70% of IQ is heritable, 90% of autism is heritable. Environment is a more important factor than genes
Moses, David, prophets as servants of God Paul is patterning self after (Towner N)
My misc notes on the conscience QVH
My notes on memory from phys file QVH
My reflections on reading from phys folder QHV
Notes on the conscience from Wikipedia "Conscience" QVH
NT cultural background
On lightning rods (Johnson)
On the battle for slotting products in supermarkets
On the giant animals and plants of the Carboniferous era, and the Gaia hypothesis
Our body, and bacteria in us, make decisions for us, not just our brains. Who is me?
Our competing desires show that the compatibilist argument of intentions is false
Parallels in Rom 16.25-26
Paul has placed his own apostolate at center stage of God’s story
Paul in Paul
Paul is an apostle because of this hope (Towner)
Paul says God has revealed “his word.” (logos is not in NIV)
People F
People P
Persecution of Priestley's religious writings, his religious influence on Jefferson, and his relocation to the US
Post-mortem scientific critiques of Priestley, and later appreciation
Post-Priestley development of photosynthesis, food webs, ecosystems
Preaching Points (Gibson)
Priestley helped found Unitarianism
Priestley in Birminghan (UK) and patrons support him
Priestley on eschatology
Priestley seeing 4 waterspouts on his trip to USA
Priestley, Franklin, postal speeds, and the gulf stream
Priestley's (and everyone's) fascination with electricity, and his desire to write a popular history of its discovery
Priestley's changing fortunes upon arrival to the US
Priestley's discovery that plants emit air
Priestley's friendship with Jefferson and difficulties with John Adams, and death
Priestley's second discovery: oxygen! But also his error about phlogiston
Priestly's invention of soda water, resulting in Schweppe's fortune
Q: whether or not the thing promised (i.e. eternal life, v. 2a) is actually still in view in the second half of the formula QV here
Quantum theory saving us from Laplace determinism?
Questions
Qux
Reading
Reading advice from Preaching Pts QVH
Realizing that your body acts on your mind frees you up - not blaming self for words spoken when your sugar levels were high
Reasons vs causes as explanations of behavior (Baggini)
Research
Retribution as bad, lack of control, and how to judge moral responsibility
Salvation in Titus vv (Towner)
Servant as slave - limited rights and submission to master, dependence on master
Servant of God here vs Paul's usual Servant of Christ in order to connect Paul to Gods' plan and servants (Towner N)
Servant, slave, slavery
Sources
Study where people walked slower after reading texts about old age
Stylesheet for hidden text
Summaries of Joseph Priestly (Johnson)
Technology, theory
The fact that our brains make decisions seconds before our conscious awareness is not an issue. Not brain vs me but brain as part of me. Misleading language.
The future that is fixed by the past also includes our choices
The horrors of transatlantic voyages (Johnson)
The Invention of Air (Johnson)
The mistaken quest to find a part of us that is the 'controller'. We as whole people are the agent of choices
The oxygen jump in the proterozoic era
The phrase “free will” describes what it feels like to identify with certain mental states as they arise in consciousness
The relation of ideas and energy flows in society
the substitution of “our savior” in place of “our Lord” is a notable divergence
The threat to free will actually comes from materialism. We are cogs in the wheel.
Theory re invention and discovery
those who have come to faith through his apostolate are therefore God’s people, “chosen” by him
Titus 1.1
Titus 1.1-4
Titus 1.1-4 a single sentence, cf for structure in Eng
Titus 1.2
Titus 1.3
Titus 1.4
Titus exegesis
Titus introduction
Titus is obligated to serve Paul as a faithful son would a father (possibly also Paul's convert)
Titus situation
Titus themes
Topics
Travel and transportation
True child, not illegitimate, only Titus may speak for Paul in Crete QVH
Truth (= gospel) produces godliness? Or that is godliness the yardstick of truth? Towner says the latter
Truth (1.1) and God who does not lie (1.2) as anticipating critique of Cretans
Types of counseling questions (phys file) QVH
Unable to discern a physical cause for our thoughts and actions, yet believing everything has some kind of cause, we attribute a different kind of causation, one that originates in the mind.
Unitarianism
Vacations
We add the 'I' of the gaps (like the God of the gaps) because we feel uncomfortable with materialism
We are free to do what we want. But where do our desires come from? Nature? Nurture? Previous decisions? Situation? Framing?
We are only consciously aware of our choices seconds after our brain has made them, then we invent stories to explain them
We are pushed by the past, not pulled by the future
We can't describe where our choices, efforts and intentions came from. Ideas just pop into our heads.
We cannot choose what we choose
We have a political or religious belief about, say, fairness.But where did it come from? Either came from nature or nurture. No third option.
What level best explains our actions? genetics? physics? brain? us? Maybe we should just figure out which level fits what we want to talk about rather than privileging one
What we do is determined (partly) by who we are at that point. That makes sense: our decisions are consistent with who we really are. I can do no other = freedom, not slavery. What seem like inconsistent decisions are really showing us who we are
Why do some people get so much luck discovering and inventing? Various factors, incl Marx, Kuhn, leisure time, circulation of ideas, coffee (Invention of Air)
Writing
Zeus lied to have sex with a human woman, and had a tomb on Crete