(August 31, 2012 at 10:11 pm)Gambit Wrote: This one question is why, when you asked me a while ago, I said I was a deist. I just can't fathom it. I used to fuck with my friends when they were stoned, by asking them "Try thinking of nothing." They would come up with a number of scenarios; however, each one would inevitably describe something. A thing that had attributes, was natural, and could be tested and verified if we had the means.
I asked my da about this once, and this is what he had to offer: "We are nowhere near as intelligent or advanced as we'd like to believe. There are things in this universe (At the time the multiverse was virtually unheard of) that we are simply incapable of understanding, at this point in our evolution. We may never understand them, but that's OK, we don't necessarily need to. That we want to; that we are driven by a desire to pursue such truths - that is the greatest trait of humankind.
My da is a useless asshole in a lot of respects, but those words have kept me sane for a long time.
Yeah I know full well that most if not all of these questions won't be answered.
But that's what bugs me the most
Interesting you point towards what you said about deism. I think it's really just a question of how you think, are you prepared to accept that at some point there has to be an exception to the rule. If a creator exists then he must be the exception. Unless something created the creator, and so on down the abyss of philosobabble.
For me I just can't accept the exception to the rule. It defies everything that is logical. I'm simply not prepared to forgo logic.
