(April 19, 2014 at 12:36 am)microxone Wrote: for me, there is no credible reason to believe the existence of any type of god, same thing with after life. The only thing that affects us on our situation is how we feel, and what we do, it have nothing to do with god answering prayers or whatnot.
On a literal level of course I agree. But then if you've ever really been depressed you know that how you feel about things - all joy and insight - can leave you. Then you'll know how very helpless we really are and how dependent we are on .. I don't know what. Life, identity and consciousness are a mystery. Somewhere beneath us there are so many things holding us up. The uninitiated will say it is just chemistry and science will over come. But I think the mystery goes deeper than that. I think there is more to each one of us than our offhand whim. You can move toward or away from your true identity (ie, that which goes deeper than your offhand whim). I think how you feel will respond accordingly. That isn't to say there isn't a capacity for plain old biological malfunction. But I do think it is also possible to screw it up through operator error.
Okay that was pretty over the top but I guess I had a little bit to say.
