Great Unconformity

[JohnEmmett]

I wouldn't want to believe in a God that would accept me under Pascal's Wager.

then you are choosing the animal realm


perhaps even hell

 

[Subduction Zone]

you're a seeker hence you are not skeptical

You do not seem to understand the definition of "skeptical". Most seekers are skeptical. That is why they are seeking in the first place. You probably know too many fundamentalists. They conflate being a science denier with being a skeptic. In other words, a skeptic is not merely a denier. A skeptic follows the evidence wherever it goes.

 

[JohnEmmett]

You do not seem to understand the definition of "skeptical". Most seekers are skeptical.

they can eventually accept the afterlife

 

[JohnEmmett]

You probably know too many fundamentalists.

I know too many skeptical people

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

then you are choosing the animal realm

perhaps even hell

Oooh, scary... not.

I choose honesty.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Oooh, scary... not.

I choose honesty.

you seem to choose denial

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

you seem to choose denial

I proportion my credence to the evidence.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I proportion my credence to the evidence.

the evidence is this life you know


but the evidence does not convince you


hence I wonder why you speak of evidence

~

 

[JohnEmmett]

The official video of "The World I Know" by Collective Soul

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

hence I wonder why you speak of evidence~

Keep wondering - perhaps one day the penny will drop.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Keep wondering - perhaps one day the penny will drop.

doubt is a hindrance, necessary to transcend

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

doubt is a hindrance, necessary to transcend

To transcend you must learn to live with uncertainty.

 

[JohnEmmett]

To transcend you must learn to live with uncertainty.

free will

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

free will

Free will, like uncertainty, is an emergent phenomenon - both arise from our ignorance of the world, and like time, it's a stubbornly persistent illusion.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Free will, like uncertainty, is an emergent phenomenon - both arise from our ignorance of the world, and like time, it's a stubbornly persistent illusion.

you make it complex, it's simple


the afterlife is real