tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5923927955499717910..comments2024-03-29T15:06:19.332+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What is real Christianity? The Arkle TestBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66101509355359347412022-11-02T06:21:40.372+00:002022-11-02T06:21:40.372+00:00@ben - I don't have any clear sense of whether...@ben - I don't have any clear sense of whether or not there are a finite number of appropriately-motivated spirits willing to be incarnated. <br /><br />*<br /><br />I think it is a mistake to allow 'evidence' of a scientific type to drive metaphysical speculation. It ought to go in the other direction. There are very many plausible explanations for our current corruption. <br /><br />I don't think that the increase in genetic illness - and therefore increasingly abnormal sexual and other social behaviours - is a causal agent of corruption; any more than other causes of illness are causes of evil. <br /><br />For example, plenty of the most genetically healthy (least mutated, mostly healthy and long-lived) people are the most evil-aligned of all people - so there might even be an inverse correlation between mutation accumulation and evil. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59913174190442492992022-11-02T05:25:05.850+00:002022-11-02T05:25:05.850+00:00I'm not sure if I misheard but I recently saw ...I'm not sure if I misheard but I recently saw a video where Dutton said 10-point loss in general intelligence since 2000 (remarkable) or something like that. This intelligence loss would be a proxy for all sorts of other forms of 'change'.<br /><br />It could be that the gap in innate natures between parents and their offspring is increasing as mutational degradation compounds.<br /><br />So in the past there would have been a small total number (at any one time) of people that could be described as historically normal in their natures, with a slow rate of change in the natures of the people. Then beginning quite recently, a massive population with people being increasingly different from even their own parents in their natures, causing a wide variety of spirits to incarnate in a short amount of time.<br /><br />And I know that at the same time as this there are reproductive patterns that entail certain parents having children to begin with, rather than other parents.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2414131411275787082022-11-02T01:51:27.425+00:002022-11-02T01:51:27.425+00:00It occurred to me that the world will end because ...It occurred to me that the world will end because the supply of spirits that might possibly choose resurrection will finally run dry.bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68318319879745260732022-11-01T17:12:01.332+00:002022-11-01T17:12:01.332+00:00I like this idea of the Arkle Test. Arkle has bene...I like this idea of the Arkle Test. Arkle has benefited and continues to benefit me personally/spiritually. I hope others take the time to discover him. The time has never been more ripe. Francis Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11063224017320651978noreply@blogger.com