RE: List of people who have no interest in joining a religion, ever
January 19, 2016 at 3:07 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2016 at 3:13 am by robvalue.)
I don't know why it's generally assumed God is "good", either. All we have to go on is the creation. And it's full of suffering and terrible "design" decisions.
Or more accurately, we see just what we'd expect to see from some initial conditions and rules being set and then our reality being left to develop. It sounds like an experiment. What's "good" about that? We just happened to end up congealed on a lump of rock after billions of years of weird interactions, according to these initial conditions and rules. To try and argue that we are somehow the focus of this system is to entirely misunderstand it, in my opinion.
I also don't know why it's assumed God has any idea we have become self aware. If parts of computer simulations we set up became self aware somehow, we would be blissfully unaware. And we would be "gods". We don't match the general description much, do we?
Or more accurately, we see just what we'd expect to see from some initial conditions and rules being set and then our reality being left to develop. It sounds like an experiment. What's "good" about that? We just happened to end up congealed on a lump of rock after billions of years of weird interactions, according to these initial conditions and rules. To try and argue that we are somehow the focus of this system is to entirely misunderstand it, in my opinion.
I also don't know why it's assumed God has any idea we have become self aware. If parts of computer simulations we set up became self aware somehow, we would be blissfully unaware. And we would be "gods". We don't match the general description much, do we?
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