gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Welp, it's been a good ride, but after 5 years of full remote and about 6 months of hybrid, I'm gonna be headed back to full time in office work next month. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Variations of this post keep turning up in my feed from several republican congressmen. The idea is simple, why the hell are democrats against such a simple ass anti corruption bill? 100
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Because when you define something very vaguely, and as inherently magical, the explanation become extremely elusive. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I suspected immediately after being presented with ATE that it was a very sketchy way of thinking about this stuff.substack.comThe Double-edged Sword of Awesome Theistic EvidenceTheism needs a divine psychology that explains why the stars speak, yet remains unbothered by their silence. Is it lucky enough to have both? 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026For several years since deconstructing my former belief that Gender and Sex were intrinsically linked, I've thought the concept of gender was pretty pointless. None of what I cared about when it comes to my identity seemed in any connected anyone else's notion of Manhood. 200
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The salt in YouTube comments sections never ceases to amaze me. @lanceindependent.bsky.social 100
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I can definitely tell I no longer live in civilized lands anymore. This is the "best" case of beer I could find within 20 minutes of my house. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I'm very suspicious of claims of "objective value" seemings, and that's beyond my general suspicion of seeming in general. What I hear about these seemings is something like "it seems like X is valuable", conjoined with "it seems like X would be valuable even if nobody thought it was". 110
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A conservative evangelical coworker of mine who I discuss religion and politics with recently told me that Romans is his "top of the mountain" theology. So I decided to re-read it in it's entirety. Yall, conservative evangelicals are so fucking full of shit it's literally painful to think about. 010
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Watching Huemer misrepresent anti-realism thru equivocation is not my idea of a fun time. Yet I'm probably gonna do it any way. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This was a hell of a read and does a billion times better job of explaining the "what the hell are you even on about?" feeling I get every time I listen to panpsychists talk about stuff.deivondrago.substack.comAgainst PanpsychismA critique of panpsychism from a physics perspective. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Riffing off an idea from Phil Halper in his recent discussion with Stephen Meyer, I'd like to propose a slightly different dillema to pose against proponents of Fine Tuning arguments. Are bodies required for being a Moral Agent?youtu.beStephen Meyer vs Phil Halper: The Big Bang & Fine Tuning - Evidence for God? | Uncommon GroundYouTube video by Justin Brierley | Think Faith 100
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Almost didn't watch this because I thought it would be some silly stuff. Turns out to be some silly stuff, And the answers to his most recent AMA including my question. 110
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026New one from @lanceindependent.bsky.social is up and well worth the read. While his focus is on normativity, I think all this translates really well to the sort of "objective value" talk common in apologetics. I wish more philosophers would seriously engage with Lance's ideas.lanceindependent.comUnwinnable games, unintelligibility, and appeals to incredulity1.0 The unintelligibility thesis 011
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I think far too many Fine Tuning critics(FTC) are too hasty in abandoning the Necessity horn of the trilemma. Doing a bit of theory comparison, what the design hypothesis is saying is that there is something more foundational than the universe that accounts for why the universe is the way it is... 100
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026New favorite way to defang Fine Tuning and PsychoPhysical Harmony arguments just dropped. @stanpatton.bsky.social is awesome.stanpatton.substack.comIntroducing h-LogicA New Way Forward via One Weird Trick 010
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026If you ever catch me not laughing at this meme, it's either not me or I'm in extreme distress. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Yall ever learn a new term and then have to spend 3 days falling down the rabbit hole of what it means and the related terms, whilst simultaneously questioning your whole identity? Well, I did.gender.fandom.comAgenderAgender is a gender identity generally defined as in which one lacks a gender or has very little experience of a gender. It can be seen either as a non-binary gender identity or as a statement of not ... 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I keep seeing appeals to this idea of Awesome Theistic Evidence (generally the idea of we found something like the text of John 3:16 written in the stars), and that since something in that family would be good evidence for theism, so too is the evidence for fine tuning. 100
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Can someone who watches AAA explain why Kaiser Americano is wearing black and gold with a giant V now instead of the red white and blue? 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026It occurred to me last night that his cognitive decline has gotten so pronounced that if he wasn't President of the US, making fun of Trump would be extremely offensive these days. How the fuck is this man president? 001
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 01/10/2025In the space of less than 6 months, my remote first job turned into first 50% in office, and now "were pushing for 100% rto". Guess it's time to look for a new job, yall ain't paying enough for me to be in the office every day for no/made-up reasons. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Fucking hell conservatives are fucking weird ass people yo. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The discourse around this has been driving me mad. People on all sides keep making the same mistake, so I thought it was worth addressing in detail.open.substack.comPolitical Violence Can Be JustifiedAnd saying it cannot be is a thought ending cliche. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025100% ready for my MAGA coworkers to be insufferable today. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I'm so confused as to how MAGA thinks this would work given their insane refusal to do *fucking anything* when it comes to gun control. Like, seriously? How would they fucking know? 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025I get the sentiment here, but I feel like the thing Goff describes is so far from how "religion" has been understood for the last 5 to 10 centuries that calling it that makes it less appealing to the people who would otherwise agree with him, and less appealing to people that want Religion. 120
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I used to write quite a lot about politics, since 2016 I basically can't cool my seething rage long enough to put anything down worth sharing. I hope that changes some day. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I always wonder if the people disagreeing with Rauser's use of "atheist fundamentalist" are people that match the definition he has for the term and are mad at being called what they see as a derogatory term, 1/ 200
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Found Family is the best family, and poppa Fodder does ours proud day in and day out. 110
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Holy crap, did not realize I needed this conversation in my life, but now that its an option I'm unreasonably excited. I hope @lanceindependent.bsky.social and @randalrauser.bsky.social can make this happen. 120
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025#WeekendPlanszeffy.comRiver City Pride Drag Shows 2025River City Pride Drag Shows 2025 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025@rocketcitypride.bsky.social Is there going to be a parade this year? 100
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Finished up a round in the game I'm playing on my pc, went to smoke a cigarette. Came back inside, pc is now off and won't turn on. Im the only person in the house with a desktop too, so no spare pc in the house to test parts from to isolate. FML 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I don't understand what anyone takes philisophical zombie type arguments seriously. At worst it seems pretty trivial to just reject the move from epistemic to metaphysical possibility. But even at best you just modus tollens and pretend nothing happened. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Being an adult is weird. My sister just called me because she was driving and bored. Seems normal enough... Except she felt the need to tell me she was on the way to a booty call. Like, obviously good for her, but why fucking tell me that? 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Enterprise was a better prequel than discovery (and probably SNW but I haven't seen it so idk) Enterprise actually felt like it really was set in the past of the timeline, where discovery feels like the rule of cool ruined their ability to fit into the timeline properly. 020
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This is probably the closest I'll ever get to understanding what panpsychism actually is beyond the rejection of physicalism and dualism. And yet, I can't help but feel like this metaphor makes way more sense on physicalism than panpsychism. 210
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Agile Rituals days are the worst, like basically all of them. 110
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I suspect that when off the record, he would. But Craig's role in the larger discourse has effectively become the reference point for the confidence many Christians have in the intellectual validity of their beliefs. An admission of fallibillity would undermine his capacity to fill that role. 000
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Can anyone recommend some good reading on how panpsychism is supposed to work? I'm familiar with the argument, but what remains completly unclear is what the content is aside from the core definition that mind is fundamental. #philsky @philipgoff.bsky.social @emersongreen.bsky.social 130
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I take one of Materialism's commitments in possible world semantics to be something like: Any 2 worlds with identical physical facts, are identical in every other way. Regarding philosophical zombies, this would mean that the only way to think there is some possible world... 121
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Stealing memes off substack for content because life is chaos but I don't want to have nothing to post. 110
gusschultz.bsky.social @gusschultz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025For a long time I've suspected that most arguments for theism are basically just one argument cached out in different terms. Well now I've figured out how to not only formalize that idea, but also how respond to it. Enter the Fundamentality Theory of Apologetics.open.substack.comFundamentality Theory of ApologeticsA systemic way of viewing Apologetics thru the lens of Fundamentality. 020
Reposted by @gusschultz.bsky.socialLance S. Bush @lanceindependent.bsky.social · 17/02/2025It’s ridiculous for philosophers to constantly go around saying this or that view involves “biting the bullet.” It’s as if they think everyone does or must agree on which views are “intuitively plausible” and that if you hold a view to the contrary, you are biting a bullet. 221
