(July 13, 2013 at 5:29 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: This is a question to all people of any beliefs (theists, deists, polytheists, atheists, agnostics, etc). What one thing (could be anything such as a fact of nature, a philosophical dilemma, an experience etc.) makes you question the truthfulness of your own worldview the most? In other words, what's something makes you go "maybe I'm wrong about everything"?
Also, how do you explain away such a thing (assuming you have done so already) in your mind so you can comfortably still hold your worldview?
To me, the problem of consciousness seems to pose a problem to my naturalistic/atheistic worldview. The idea of being able to experience reality completely baffles me and makes me want to explore a supernatural explanation but when I think about it further, appealing to the supernatural to explain consciousness does not seem to explain it any better than a natural one. For now, I just put it my ever growing "I don't know" box and continue on.
What about you?
At the moment my life revolves around getting sex and staying in shape, so probably if I lost a limb or got aids, sometimes I think there's more to life anyway without loosing my limbs or getting aids I feel I should just pack up my bags go to a poor country and help them build huts or something and it would give me more satisfaction but I suppose I'm just too comfortable.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
