RE: Please describe your god's loyalty reward scheme.
November 17, 2017 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2017 at 7:57 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
Normally I would have been asking how confession works in removing sin from a soul, what a soul is, how information gets recorded on a persistent storage medium, how the information is retrrieved and sent over the aether to a god who processes the information, where the energy supply comes from for this physical mechanism as yet undiscovered by Physics which has got the poit where it is trying to come up with a grand unified theory.
But I didn't.
This time I was asking the theists to explain what their beliefs were without asking them to back it up with science. I was going to let them even make shit up if they to wanted without being challenged.
What I was planning to do was what the whole of society does with any process which gets judged on results. That is, find ways to reach those targets more efficiently. This means cutting out redundancy and exploiting a resource more efficiently. It's the very nature of intelligence. Take the education system for example. Bring in targets for a certain amount of children to reach a certain level of ability by a certain age and it focuses the teacher to teach the exam rather than to teach wisdom.
You get this happening throughout society. People will scrutinise their pension plan and figure out if they should go for a fixed or variable rate mortgage to save money. Yet if they truly believe their religion and are basing many fundamental life choices on their belief, then why aren't they applying the same mental process to this that they apply to every other part of their life?
One possible option is that they don't truly believe in a god. That may apply to the default theists I mentioned earlier who don't question anything. But religionists for example do truly believe it seems.
So this leaves the other option, that these beliefs only work if thy aren't questioned. Asking for specifics kills the magic it seems. And the only reason I can currently think that undefined religious beliefs are more important to retain than to exploit some system because there is a lot of personal investment in the religious belief. Asking too many questions means that the theist can't come up with the answers because they can't back up what they believe. It's like auto cognitive dissonance kicks in.
But I didn't.
This time I was asking the theists to explain what their beliefs were without asking them to back it up with science. I was going to let them even make shit up if they to wanted without being challenged.
What I was planning to do was what the whole of society does with any process which gets judged on results. That is, find ways to reach those targets more efficiently. This means cutting out redundancy and exploiting a resource more efficiently. It's the very nature of intelligence. Take the education system for example. Bring in targets for a certain amount of children to reach a certain level of ability by a certain age and it focuses the teacher to teach the exam rather than to teach wisdom.
You get this happening throughout society. People will scrutinise their pension plan and figure out if they should go for a fixed or variable rate mortgage to save money. Yet if they truly believe their religion and are basing many fundamental life choices on their belief, then why aren't they applying the same mental process to this that they apply to every other part of their life?
One possible option is that they don't truly believe in a god. That may apply to the default theists I mentioned earlier who don't question anything. But religionists for example do truly believe it seems.
So this leaves the other option, that these beliefs only work if thy aren't questioned. Asking for specifics kills the magic it seems. And the only reason I can currently think that undefined religious beliefs are more important to retain than to exploit some system because there is a lot of personal investment in the religious belief. Asking too many questions means that the theist can't come up with the answers because they can't back up what they believe. It's like auto cognitive dissonance kicks in.
