(December 31, 2015 at 5:27 pm)wallym Wrote: A weird coincidence that seems to typically occur is that people are happy with whatever they reason is the truth.
. . . here's what strikes me as weird. Why don't people if they are searching for the Truth, ever seem to find Truths they don't care for. Like a person who loves animals, but recognizes it's just a stupid dog, and treating it like a human is dumb. Or atheists that really would like heaven. Religious people that think God's plan is shitty.
My two discussion questions are:
1) Does your interpretation of truth include a lot of things that you wish weren't true? (other than other people thinking stupid things are true).
2) What do you think is happening that makes this occur. Is it that we psychologically adapt to our environment so we can make the best of it.
Bonus question: If everybody likes their version of reality, why do you think so many people are depressed?
I know a number of atheists who would like for god to be true. He hasn't been around for a while, but JacobSmooth became an atheist while on these forums. He compared the process to a cold shower.
Personally, I'd like, if not eternal life, at least a lot more life. Wishing won't make it so. Knowing evil people are punished would be nice too, especially if they knew that before they did bad things. Wishing won't make that true either.
Quantum posted a Julia Sweeney video yesterday. Her journey was to find god. She found atheism instead. Then she had to grapple with real death.
Conversely, many theists are scared into believing.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
