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Top 8 Injustice Frosty Faustings VII
Just because people settle down and have kids doesn't mean they stop smoking, drinking and having sex with multiple women....
Just because people settle down and have kids doesn't mean they stop smoking, drinking and having sex with multiple women....
I think what religious people are trying to convey is that the concept of an afterlife is solely attached to belief in a higher power. If you don't believe in a higher power, then life ends when you die on earth. So in other words, your existence on earth all leads up to...nothing. I think that's the idea, rather than saying the actual life on earth is meaningless. After all, religious people believe that this life is some sort of test to prove one's worthiness in life after death. Did you do 'well' enough in this lifetime to warrant a place in heaven etc.? So I think that belief in God is the only way to reach this absolute goal, hence rendering our life on earth not as grand in relative terms.
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I think you should look at them with disgust because they are miserable.
Do you live in the United States by any chance? Most of the people saying this don't live in the middle east, Africa, El Salvador, etc.
Agreed. I think what happens is that people eventually figure out that if they settle down, cooperate and start specializing (which is what money allows society to do) we are better off.. but if you have some jackass that just takes what they want and generally causes mayhem it all falls apart, and we're back to warring tribes struggling to survive. Logic wouldn't have worked against animals that just do whatever they want, so you need to find some way to control them; so make up a myth about some all powerful being that is always present and wants you to act a certain way, and fear keeps them in line and we can actually have a society.
Starfish don't just lay down and die; no living thing does, every living thing tries its hardest to survive. Humans are a bit beyond just survival though.
I disagree. I see religion as an archaic element in human history; we needed it to hold society together in the past, but its long outlived its usefulness. Why is believing in the Cristian god accepted but if I said I worshiped a magic fairy that dictated how I live I'd might be diagnosed with neurosis? The answer is only that there are a large number of people that being in Christianity and very few that believe in the all powerful fairy.
Correct; so my question is they why continue to believe something that may or may not be there? Something that really seems to have no impact in your life except that you decide to believe something that cannot be proven?
How do you know there is such a thing as a human soul? What if all we are really is a collection of biochemical processes? How do you explain that passive people become violent when a certain part of their brain is damaged? Or other personality changes that occur due to physical trauma? Its interesting that you're talking down about atheists because they can't prove there isn't an afterlife, yet you can't prove there is one either. And why do you seem to think atheists believe life is meaningless or that I have no purpose? I consider myself an atheist, yet I feel I have a purpose and my life (and other's) have meaning.
Interesting, as that's what I consider religion to be. You might be curious to read philosophers who came to arrive at the same moral code most religions preach by logic alone.
I don't consider being responsible for another person's life enjoyable, especially with all there is to worry about in today's world. Not that I have any issue with people that want children, its just not for me.
The apostles, about 300 years after jesus died. And whatever changes the people that hand-copied it changed so I guess you can count them as well. Don't you ever wonder why there's like 10 variations of the "one true word?"
What does it matter if your are born gay or chose to be? It makes no difference either way, aren't people free to choose to live their life? How does being gay hurt you?
I can confirm this doesn't happen in Scotland
That's a very solipsistic world view. It's also highly deterministic. Your world view implies that you have no free will, no choice. Everything that happens is pre-destined, it's just reliving a memory.
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But that doesn't make logical sense. Even if you're reliving a memory you haven't remembered correctly, your actions are still predetermined as the memory plays out. And if you can change your memory on one day, does that change all subsequent memories/days? Then isn't it pointless that you're reliving past memories since essentially you're not living a memory you're just living a new life in situ?Me no know big words
I mean that's one analysis of it, I just think of it differently. It's not necessarily pre-destined to happen, as at the moment in time you're living through your memories you can't tell what's going to happen, and your brain can sometimes distort memories. That's why sometimes people are sure they've remembered something but the opposite actually happened.
As I said your brain controls everything and produces what you experience. In your dreams is every action predetermined or does it continue to be affected by your brain and what it tells you or controls in your dream? If your memory changes one day it won't affect the other following days, that's what I was saying about how people can sometimes incorrectly recall memories from past days.
