RE: The logical consequences of omnipotence
January 31, 2013 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2013 at 3:56 pm by Violet.)
Ah, gotcha. Well some people were saying they didn't understand that 
Ultimately, if someone doesn't first have faith in the truth of anything, they'll never believe in anything, as justifications themselves would be suspect, as would reason and logic themselves... Ultimate Nihilism, if you will... not even going so far as to believe in some form of the self
I think religion as a 'replicating meme' is empty, devoid of the spirit of it... absent the very faith it would need to be a meaningful observance of the world. As such, I'm rather against raising children as deliberately any one thing... whether it be scientist or theist or to be 'the best they can be', I'm all about the human spirit... and training a being whose nature is not yet known to the being or declared by that being shows a lack in faith that the person will be fantastic, whatever their path.
Religion isn't spiritually satisfying or philosophically eye-opening as a contagion... and I do dislike seeing people approach it as such.
Please note: I'm talking about psychologically and mentally training people, not about potty training
Ultimately, if someone doesn't first have faith in the truth of anything, they'll never believe in anything, as justifications themselves would be suspect, as would reason and logic themselves... Ultimate Nihilism, if you will... not even going so far as to believe in some form of the self
I think religion as a 'replicating meme' is empty, devoid of the spirit of it... absent the very faith it would need to be a meaningful observance of the world. As such, I'm rather against raising children as deliberately any one thing... whether it be scientist or theist or to be 'the best they can be', I'm all about the human spirit... and training a being whose nature is not yet known to the being or declared by that being shows a lack in faith that the person will be fantastic, whatever their path.
Religion isn't spiritually satisfying or philosophically eye-opening as a contagion... and I do dislike seeing people approach it as such.
Please note: I'm talking about psychologically and mentally training people, not about potty training
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
