(August 12, 2019 at 6:32 pm)Lek Wrote:(August 12, 2019 at 6:15 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Yeah, but what is it? If it exists, you should be able to provide me with positive descriptors. The simple negation of “natural” isn’t going to cut it. If it’s real, you should be able to tell me more about it than what it’s not. You should be able to tell me what it is.
Once I tell you what it is, you'll ask me to support it with tangible evidence. I'll respond with non-scientific arguments and tell you that I believe God instilled it in me. You'll say that my evidence is not provable, and on and on. We've both been there. But I do perceive God as being the one infinite existence who manifests everything we are and perceive. In actuality, though, I don't know totally who or what God is. I think it is an innate quality in humankind to seek God, because we realize there is something beyond the physical universe. Do you believe in ghosts?
I think we have this quality because of a past evolutionary advantage of attributing agency where there was none, but this is just a blame game and an excuse for hiding god(s). What arguments are there, is the true question.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman