Oh, dear.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter
Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god
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Oh, dear.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter RE: Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god
December 3, 2020 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2020 at 2:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 3, 2020 at 11:56 am)Klorophyll Wrote: Again, you're describing the content of their imagination, -which, we agree, doesn't say much about reality- instead of the tendency. Children are a more honest version of ourselves, stripped of any cultural or ideological influence, at the same time we observe that they invariably assign big phenomena to big creators -be it a giant unicorn, pixies, or something similar- and/or give them purpose.You have some silly beliefs about children's honesty too, it seems. It honestly doesn't matter. We both exclude whatever it is children are imagining, and whatever it is they're just telling stories about. That includes any and all purpose, as well as any and all gods, that aren't there, or that are made up. All that concerns us, is the hypothetical portion of what they see that is there, that they are genuinely reporting, when they ascribe purpose to natural phenomena. This is the tendency you wanted explained, this is what you claimed was an indication of some god. As you've seen over and over, it isn't. I think they see it because it's there. Quote:You didn't answer my question. What external power you think will intervene to ressurect the dead ?None. Quote:What kind of power will glue together the ashes of billions of burned people- for example?None Quote:If you claim you can conceive of an afterlife without an all powerful being, they you can at least conceive of a rudimentary scenario of godless ressurection.Asking me what I think about these things is pointless. I don't believe in gods or in afterlives, so I don't think anything is going to do that....and I'll note that in that world, children still ascribe purpose to natural phenomena. It's an irrelevant item to the initial question, but shows your bizarre laziness and incuriosity. Go ask the worlds many buddhists and hindus and new age whatsits about afterlives not dependent on gods. Quote:Meanwhile. Here is my logical argument against any possiblity of afterlife absent a god:It's not only conceivable that natural intervention can bring back the dead and cure disease ..it's been done. Suppose that your first premise weren't laughably incompetent and false, though? Maybe a genie does it. Satisfies premise one and demonstrates the error of premise two. Try again, I guess? Here's the thing..though, so what if there's no afterlife? That would be bad? Bad things can be true things. Quote:The god purpose motivated many people to work for the exact causes you mentioned -preventing famine, genocides, rape, etc. Absent the god purpose, all other purposes are equally appealing.Nothing, just ask him. If the metric is finding purpose, finding purpose through gods, goodness, or racism are all..equally, finding purpose. You think that some purposes are better than others...sure, and so does everyone else. The trouble here is that you multiply the amount of purpose in the world (and by a large set of purpose you don't accept for one reason or another). We suddenly find ourselves in a world chock full of purpose, so we shouldn't be surprised to find that children see it.
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(October 29, 2020 at 10:54 am)Eleven Wrote: Theists need to shut their pie holes, because that of which they speak is not of any reality but rather a concept they imagine is real via fallible faith.Maybe its not ignorance but its ignorance on your part there are lots of intelligent religionists out there. If you want to hear directly from God then you need to study His word. |
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