RE: The most disturbing image I saw in my life
January 10, 2023 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2023 at 4:58 pm by WinterHold.)
(January 8, 2023 at 10:41 pm)Objectivist Wrote:(January 8, 2023 at 6:40 pm)WinterHold Wrote: I just saw a haunting image that kept me shocked, scared, and feeling pain allover my body.It's not me, it's part of me. I am more than my nervous system. I am my body and I am also my mind. The fact that you are impressed by the complexity of our bodies is not a warrant for believing in a deity. Pictures are not arguments. Incredulity is no defense for believing in the supernatural. You ask how can we see this and still be atheists. It's a non-sequitur. I'd like to ask theists how they can accept such faulty reasoning? The racism, toxic behaviours, and killings that you lament are a result of such faulty reasoning or the failure to reason at all. Our brains and our nervous system are wonderful things and they give us the ability to do wonderful things but when we fail to use them or use them in the wrong way we are capable of horrible things.
It wasn't a physical pain, but rather... I can't explain it.
Here is the image:
This is your "Nervous System".
This is "you". This is your memories, your whole life, and me too.
How could a person remain an atheist after seeing their actual reality?
There must be a creator that made this pile of flesh for Billions of iterations; with each iteration producing a unique different being.
The soul is nothing but the electricity that set this system to work..just like a switch, on and off.
We humans replicate our creation with every item we create.
Just like illiterate toddlers, that creator taught us how to live, by making us look in our own creation first.
What about racism?ego?and similar toxic behaviours? wouldn't it be shockingly embarrassing for the racist to see what they actually are? a pile of weak disgusting arteries and nerves connected ?
Imagine the World Wars with all the soldiers looking like the bare nervous system. Wouldn't it be stupid, sinful, worthy of Hell to see nervous systems killing each other?
God exists and someday, we shall rise from the graves to face him.
We do not replicate our own creation when we create something. There is a huge equivocation here. When we create something new, we create it by using existing materials. The kind of creation you are talking about is creation from nothing pre existing. It is essentially wishing things into existence. The two are in no way alike.
There isn't a god. It's a fantasy. But if I were to find myself in from of this god he better clear his schedule because I'll have a lot to say to it and it won't be short.
It's interesting that you ask us to use our imaginations. I know of no other way to apprehend your god but to use my imagination. But, there is a fundamental distinction between what is real and what is imaginary, one that is identified by the primacy of existence principle. It's a principle you unwittingly use and reject at the same time any time you make a claim about your god. I think you should reconcile that contradiction before you go presenting arguments for your god.
It includes your brain; so it is you.
We can't runaway from it. The Nervous System needs a body to work; just like a firm needs a Manager.
Without the manager; the company would fall.
Without a Nervous System; the body would fall.
That's why a "head shot" kills you immediately.
That's why a severe trauma to the Spinal Chord immobilises you immediately.
The rest of the body is a mere resource feeding the Nervous System.