(June 12, 2015 at 10:33 am)Randy Carson Wrote: I agree with you about the appeal to popularity as a PROOF. However, it does tell us something about human nature.
For example, if one of your best friends told you about an online game that he discovered, would you check it out?
If 2.2 billion people downloaded a new app onto their smartphones, would you check it out?
If xx billion people believe that a god exists, would you check it out?
It tells us something about Human nature... you got that right!
Beliefs are powerful incentives to action... and a belief that gets passed on tends to stick around.
Also, if somewhere along the chain of passing the belief along, you come across the information that not holding that belief is bad, or that those who don't hold your same belief are "the others" and must be destroyed or converted, then you pick up on a very powerful force that, in time, gets the whole world to hold such beliefs.
We are at that time.
And, if you notice, I never mentioned that whatever is believed upon must be true.
The concept of god has won out in the beliefs stage mainly for its inability to be disproved.
Even with the far reaching advancement of science, god-of-the-gaps is still a thing. As long as there is a gap in knowledge, god will hide there and xx billion people will believe some form of god exists.
It's all down to human nature. No god required.
Being aware of this, how would I let my own mind be tricked into believing whatever god is proposed to me?
