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Then you should have stopped a few posts back.Not that I want to spam with videos but here is another good short one (last one) to get you guys thinking
I couldn't help myself. There plenty more videos I could have posted, those are very good & each is short & are relevant to this discussion, especially the 1st one. They can express the points far more eloquently than i canThen you should have stopped a few posts back.
I couldn't help myself. There plenty more videos I could have posted, those are very good & each is short & are relevant to this discussion, especially the 1st one. They can express the points far more eloquently than i can
They haven’t. Christianity has thousands of different variations each claiming to be the right one.And if its just a contrivance of scripture writers, how lucky that for thousands of years they all stuck to the same line.
It may be a lot of things.You can't say
"So we must acknowledge that we can never be 100% sure of anything. This is the tentativity of the scientific method."
which means, in reality we all MUST act on faith (see above video again) whether we like it or not or admit it or not & then take issue with a God who just happens to ask of humans the one thing He knows we must do, as in the only thing we can really do in order to operate int he world, ie put your faith in something. In this case of course its put your faith in Him for what follows this existence.
And if its just a contrivance of scripture writers, how lucky that for thousands of years they all stuck to the same line.
Yes, it may have been what the writers wanted you to believe, they clearly did BUT it may also be what God actually wants you to do too because He knows it really is the ONLY thing you can do & you do it all the time in operating in this world.
If pain is an illusion why does it hurt?But the pain is just an illusion, its not real, man up for goodness sakes!!.
Don't know about thousands, dozens certainly, perhaps some hundreds, but however many there are they all agree that faith in Jesus Christ is core and it is essential to be called a ChristianThey haven’t. Christianity has thousands of different variations each claiming to be the right one.
It’s not though. It might be. But it’s not.it doesn't, you just think it does, thats part of the illusion. Even your feelings are an illusion, its the matrix remember.
Can't say about his eloquence as his wrongness gets in the way.You are saying Frank isn't eloquent? He seems ok to me.
The human brain is necessarily simpler than the vast complexity of the world around us.Exactly! No matter how sure we are of something we know that new information can stroll along and bring our sureties crashing down around our ears.
So we must acknowledge that we can never be 100% sure of anything. This is the tentativity of the scientific method.
I thought best to address this separately from the broader discussion we are having, so I'll make 2 posts.I'm still trying to figure out why people voted for Trump, not just once, but twice!!!!
I think at least some (or perhaps most) people who believe in reincarnation believe that because they sense on some level it seems impossible that our consciousness can exist and then just cease as if it had not existed. Trying to put that into a wording -- why should consciousness be merely like foam on the ocean, here one day but gone the next, seemingly dissipating without lasting effects... Instead, why shouldn't consciousness be more like light traveling in space, or the nature of convection currents in the ocean: more like the parts of nature we can see just continue....(and now) we know that nothing just ceases to exist in an ultimate way, but instead any thing in nature we know merely transforms. (becomes an ongoing new thing, like transferred momentum -- the momentum itself isn't destroyed, but transferred)But seriously, why people believe what they believe... I don't know. Perhaps they just look at the cyclicality of the earth, and of the heavens, and they assume that that's the way it must be. Because from the stars, to the seasons, to life itself... all around them, everything that dies is inevitably reborn. In such a world is it really that difficult to understand why people would believe in reincarnation?
Why many would believe/follow Trump was quite a puzzle for me also in the past, so I focused on figuring it out. I began to see one main thing is simply that Trump being a confidence man style salesman, is pretty able in that one area (not so much in other areas), and is able to trick a portion of the population. It's apparently what he's spent a large part of his adult years working on -- being able to trick people with words, paint a false picture.
Acquiring a personal opinion for either of two untestable notions, is of no practical use... I'm not advocating for a simulated reality, I'm just wondering... it's what I do. But to be completely honest, I find the whole 'simulated reality scenario' to be far more likely than the 'omnipotent God scenario'.
Your post made me think of:The subject of Trump may seem off topic in this thread, but in some respects it really isn't. Let me try to explain. As a solipsist I've often wondered about the nature of reality. Is it completely natural, governed solely by the laws of physics? Is it purely mental, the inevitable byproduct of a conscious mind? Is it the handiwork of a divine creator? Or is it, as some have suggested, actually a computer simulation?
Physics Revelation Could Mean We're All Living in a Simulation
Now such theories are interesting, but as a solipsist I approached the question from a different perspective. If we're actually living in a simulation would the behavior of the people in it inadvertently betray the fact that it's a simulation. For example, the creator of the simulation would probably have a storyline that they need the characters in the simulation to stick to, if everyone could just go rambling off doing whatever they wanted to, then keeping the simulation on track for any significant period of time would be nigh on impossible.
This need to control the storyline should lead to two things.
The NPC's are necessary to assure that the simulation stays on track, and in so doing they may not always do what would seem like the reasonable thing to do, like not following Adolf Hitler, or Hamas, or not wasting hundreds of thousands of lives invading Ukraine, or not voting for Donald Trump... twice.
- The majority of characters in the simulation would need to be NPC's. (Non-player characters)
- These NPC's would occasionally appear to act irrationally.
Now if one views reality with this hypothetical simulation scenario in mind, do certain behaviors make more sense? Are people really that incapable of living peaceful, productive lives that killing and mistreating their fellow man is accepted as normal? If you were living in 'Grand Theft Auto' would all the shooting and killing seem perfectly natural?
It's an intriguing, if unanswerable question, does the behavior of the world around you seem rational? If not, then perhaps it's because it's a simulation. The purposes of which may be manyfold... entertainment, education, rehabilitation, experimentation, procreation.
I'm not advocating for a simulated reality, I'm just wondering... it's what I do. But to be completely honest, I find the whole 'simulated reality scenario' to be far more likely than the 'omnipotent God scenario'.
Not true. The neural connections in the human brain are the most complex arrangement of matter known in the universe. There are more brain states than atoms in the observable universe.The human brain is necessarily simpler than the vast complexity of the world around us.
That we know of. I'm thinking of a young woman from Northern Europe (maybe) who act normally but was found to have a large void in the center of her brain. This was in a documentary back in the 1970s, maybe late 1970s, Maybe not an argument in favor of the soul, but still a testimony of the adaptability of the brain.There are no PhD physicists walking around with this condition.
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