RE: What would you do if you found out God existed
November 2, 2017 at 9:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2017 at 9:26 am by Harry Nevis.)
(November 2, 2017 at 8:27 am)Captain_Nemo Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 7:56 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Ahh, another definition of "faith".
Confidence in what we know exists and confidence in in similar outcomes from prior observations is not faith. It in no way is related to belief without evidence.
Yada yada yada. Please, tell us more about this thing called "love"...
We are failing, partly because people equate mythology with facts, emotional reactions with truth and choosing feeling good over critical thinking. That, and greed.
But You would not call greeks idiots because they were using myths.
Most people are not able to read Plato or Aristotle.
The myth about Prometheus is still valid today. Look at something like the Prometheus society - why are people whose IQ oscillates around 200 using a mythological figure. Isn't it obvious that when ideas are expressed one should try to grasp the meaning anew each time a sentence is decoded and not just create a stereotype that all ideas that are expressed with a given word do not make sense.
It's still a myth. A myth can have some truth in it, but that doesn't make it true.
(November 2, 2017 at 8:27 am)Captain_Nemo Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 7:56 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Ahh, another definition of "faith".
Confidence in what we know exists and confidence in in similar outcomes from prior observations is not faith. It in no way is related to belief without evidence.
Yada yada yada. Please, tell us more about this thing called "love"...
We are failing, partly because people equate mythology with facts, emotional reactions with truth and choosing feeling good over critical thinking. That, and greed.
This is basic about any language.
The problem is that anything given in reality should be used with a benefit. Destroying something just because we do not like it is unproductive and leaves a vacuum where worse things usually take the place of the previous entity. So its not about wheather religion is bad or good, but how to interact with it to make the intercation beneficial to the user. The user himself has to teach himself to make this interaction work in this way.
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What is common today is the thought, that any idea that is expressed in a sentence contaning the word God in it is rubbish.
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But if You look at this kind of behaviour from the view point of informatinal warfare it makes perfect sense. Just teach the younger generation to use different vocabulary, convince them that the old vocabulary is stupid no matter how it is being used and You create a generational gap. If You take into account that divide and conquer is the simplest idea of empowerment of one's own faction one can understand why it is so common, with multicultural societies dominating.
What is really scary, is how difficult it is to explain to anybody what is really happening. People think that existence is a safe place although we never really abandoned the law of the jungle. The most dangerous things are not the things that can kill You, but those that can hack Your mind and reprogramm it at will.
Even if Satan were not real (although I think he is) it's still better to be careful about what kind of thoughts are getting into one's mind and from what sources.
It does not matter if a person or spiritual entity wants to make a slave out of me. The necessary defense mechanism is exactly the same.
I'm not looking for the destruction of religion. The only way to overcome magical thinking is in one's own head. People who want to believe will find some channel for their needs until they realize they're not real or necessary.
I find it ironic that immediately after the phrase, "can hack your mind and reprogram it at will" you say you believe in Satan.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
