jeudi 28 août 2025

Common Design is NOT Last Thursdayism


Someone, whom for the moment I'm leaving anonymous (I might watch, comment and link to his video later, if he answers this point first) titled a video:

"Common Design" Is Just Last Thursdayism


Last Thursdayism is the idea, that everything, including myself and my memories of the Thursday before that, popped into existence LAST Thursday. It involves the proposition that my memories are totally unreliable, since I could have popped into existence last Thursday as an adult, with all my childhood memories being illusory.

There actually is a religion to which Last Thursdayism was once true in human society, if I get it correctly, namely the Babylonian one. The Babylonian gods created men in already functioning societies because they wanted something from the men they created and weren't patient enough to laboriously teach them over time. So, some day, there were no men, Tiamat was a stinking corpse, and, next day, men were walking in a city and asking each other "you remember that trade trip when we bought the extra good perfumes ten years ago?" ...

God on the other hand did not primarily create man for society or for providing Him with some substantial upkeep, but for communion with Himself. He had provided for Adam. Adam and Eve could slowly watch human society emerge from their nuclear family after the fall. No false memories involved.

I kind of suspect, the point is to compare:

  • either the other aspects of things popping into existence (like trees and beasts on days 3 and 6) without noting that Last Thursdayism is absurd because it involves denial of memory;
  • or to equate traces of processes indirectly arrived at only through the traces with memory directly witnessing to the past.


Either point is per se too stupid for wasting 45 minutes of a video on, so, I'll post this in a comment under the video, and ask "where do you even adress this objection to your provocation" and if he doesn't answer, I'm not watching the video./HGL

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