RE: FallentoReason 2.0
November 25, 2012 at 4:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2012 at 4:51 am by Whateverist.)
(November 25, 2012 at 12:02 am)Faith No More Wrote: I flirted with believing in a generic god that intervened in human affairs for awhile, but in the end I couldn't convince myself that it was anything more than my desire for there to be a purpose behind some tragic events in my life. That's where I think deism fails the most, because deists appear to be slaves to their biases just as much as theists and can't separate their desires from reality. To me, that is why being an agnostic atheist is the best option. It is a position that avoids certainty to keep from being tricked by my own desires.
True but at least with Deism there is no orthodoxy and no magic book. I'm still not tempted myself to think there is any kind of creator or helper 'god' out there with a plan. If I were to wonder if there were any higher order intelligences out there I could only imagine it as working within the same constraints and uncertainty we do, albeit with a wider, older and wiser perspective. How this would be different than aliens is not something I can articulate for the simple reason that I find the concept of a 'god' completely incomprehensible. If there is anything at all out there that is beyond me, it is beyond me to know.
It is only when I feel acutely aware of being a small speck in a much greater cosmos that I wonder about how our consciousness plays into all the rest of it. But I don't really imagine that the cosmos as a whole has any consciousness apart from what we individual critters possess.
