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One thing that makes you doubt your own world view?
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One thing that makes you doubt your own world view?
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?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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One thing that makes you doubt your own world view? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - July 13, 2013 at 5:29 pm

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