(October 19, 2015 at 2:56 am)robvalue Wrote: Sure.
Can I ask, why do you hope there is a god? For one thing, what makes you think such a being is going to be something you would automatically like and not despise?
Say you found out it is enjoying our suffering, or is simply indifferent to our very experience. Or are you making assumptions about what this God would be like?
These aren't criticisms, I'm genuinely interested
If God, the creator being, proved to exist it would plausibly (at least to me) mean a few things.
One, that there is an afterlife of some sort. After all, I don't foresee any other way of finding proof of God's existence in this current life of ours. Which means two, he made a plan for souls to move on into another form of existence. It seems very unlikely that he's going to go to those lengths just to see tiny peons grovel for an eternity. Would you care to make an ant bow before you - unlikely. Three, he's an artist or at least artistic on some level and loves creating beautiful amazing things. A universe full of life with millions of intelligent species in it. Artistic, creative people tend to be the kind of people I spend the majority of my time with. Four, God very likely wouldn't go by the name of 'God' and wouldn't subscribe to the petty human emotions that christards have assigned him ... not that I believe for a moment they would even be one in the same.
Maybe I really only hope for a creator being because I have questions, but in truth it doesn't seem likely that he/she/it would even bother to talk to me at all. That's ok. I don't need love or acceptance. I'd be perfectly fine knowing that a system had been set up that created an unending cycle of life until such time that my soul simply expired.
I don't know that I can explain it better than that. Yes, it's unnecessary. One might say it's even childish.
There are still things in this world/universe that go unexplained and unanswered. There are things I've personally experienced regarding spirits/ghost that no one can even begin to wrap their mind around. The funny thing is - I remain a pretty staunch skeptic regarding ALL things spiritual. Ergo, my "faith" remains hope and my belief remains elusive.
I apologize if that muddy's the waters.