RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
August 24, 2017 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2017 at 12:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 24, 2017 at 12:11 pm)budsa11 Wrote: Could there be an unknown Force, Entity, that just the same as we are unknown to the ant and the toddler to his or her world, that is looking at us as we look at the ant?There certainly -are- forces and entities unknown.... to me, though I don't know what they'd be watching me for. The Strong/Weak Peeping Tom Force?
Are you asking whether or not it's possible that some god is watching you pee, or that aliens are watching you poop...or?
As for the notion making your mind race...that probably has more to do with our deep seated paranoia than the conclusion of any rational process or comparison by analogy. We're always wondering/worried that someone or something is watching us - at least on some level. It;s one of the reasons we project conceptual "entities"onto forces, or imagine that there is some equivalence between them..IE, that they both "watch" - as we watch. Truth of the matter, is that gravity isn't watching me... and neither are a crushing majority of known entities.
We have a natural tendency to think that way, and strong incentive to do so; so any reenforcing suggestion is very likely to be compelling entirely out of proportion to whatever rationalizations we point to in support of it. Is anyone or anything watching you right now? Are you sure? Maybe you should at least look? How will you know if you don't look? Are you sure you'd know if you did look?
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