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Either way - It's almost too amazing to be true.
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The scientific considerations into the possibilities of what is sometimes called the Multi-verse (although I prefer Many Worlds) is, I think, potentially orders of magnitude more stunning and amazing than just the origination of life on one tiny speck in the universe we find ourselves.
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 (April 21, 2014 at 1:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Whether God exists or not, life is almost too amazing to be true. Whenever you feel like this, just think about things like cholera. Death by diarrhea doesn't exactly scream, "awe-inspiring" or "magnificent creator."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Either way - It's almost too amazing to be true.
April 21, 2014 at 5:57 pm
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And it's the #5 cause of death worldwide.
The top 5: Heart disease Stroke Lower Respiratory Infection COPD AIDS http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/ 
Now that's a lot of shit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (April 21, 2014 at 5:57 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: And it's the #5 cause of death worldwide. You've got that wrong. I have it on good authority that in Islam the top 5 causes of death are: God God God God God  
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe RE: Either way - It's almost too amazing to be true.
April 21, 2014 at 7:31 pm
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(April 21, 2014 at 4:32 pm)Faith No More Wrote: just think about things like cholera. Why not? Is there anything not self centred that's seen as bad? I mean... we cite all this stuff that appeals to our emotions: project our emotions onto animal/ insect suffering... But that doesn't make it "bad". It's all awe inspiring to me. And I make no plea to divine intervention at all.  RE: Either way - It's almost too amazing to be true.
April 21, 2014 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2014 at 8:00 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 21, 2014 at 7:31 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 21, 2014 at 4:32 pm)Faith No More Wrote: just think about things like cholera. Because it seems pretty reasonable that if you evolved, some microbe will be evolved to take advantage of you, and if you didn't by chance evolve resistance, you'd die so you can contribute to evolution by being deselected. Nothing awe inspiring, nothing more unusual that the most common place natural occurrences and processes like a tadpole getting eaten or bread molding. Awe is an infantile emotion, and makes most susceptible to credulity and idiocy. If you can't master yourself, then at least try to keep it under control.
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Microbes are awesome aren't they?
 Lacking awe = miserable old git disease   Where's Min? 
(April 21, 2014 at 7:31 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Why not? Is there anything not self centred that's seen as bad? I mean... we cite all this stuff that appeals to our emotions: project our emotions onto animal/ insect suffering... But that doesn't make it "bad". Sure, but projecting our emotions is exactly what we're doing when we see the world as awe-inspiring. I was just pointing out to MysticKnight that you have to consider the bad with the good. (April 21, 2014 at 7:31 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It's all awe inspiring to me. And I make no plea to divine intervention at all. So...you're an atheist now?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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