I don't know what to believe. — Purple Pond
why did you get chosen? — Purple Pond
it is just so unlikely — Purple Pond
It's like the universe conspired to have me exist — Purple Pond
absurd to believe that I'm here for no reason at all — Purple Pond
I beat the odds — Purple Pond
You paint a dismal picture. — TheMadFool
a creator, all good and loving, can and does uplift some souls. — TheMadFool
So, truth is what makes us feel good?You paint a dismal picture. If I may say so I think you're being too scientific. Science is great but it's not the only stuff we have to play with. What about religion? Of course we need to delete some of the icky stuff like slavery, human sacrifice, etc. but the possibility of a creator, all good and loving, can and does uplift some souls. — TheMadFool
Of all the possible combinations of matter why did you get chosen? — Purple Pond
Or there could have been no universe at all.
If you think about it is sort of a cosmic accident of things coming together in the exact combination to produce such a being as yourself.
I feel like I shouldn't exist, it is just so unlikely.
It's like the universe conspired to have me exist, but surely that's absurd.
It's also seems absurd to believe that I'm here for no reason at all.
It will be back to the vacuum and cold dust of the universe all too soon. — Bitter Crank
And you make it sound scary, negative. What's scary about peaceful sleep? — Michael Ossipoff
Strictly speaking, of course it won't be... — Michael Ossipoff
"And you make it sound scary, negative. What's scary about peaceful sleep?" — Michael Ossipoff
— Michael Ossipoff
Strictly speaking, of course it won't be anything like sleeping, because one presumably will never dream
— Bitter Crank
or wake up.
Sleep is a euphemism for death, which has no ending.
Life just stops
, and that's it. Nothing more.
he prospect of death is a tremendous incentive to enjoy life while it lasts. Carpe diem.
.Tell me more about "infinitely-many life-experience possibility-stories, one with you as protagonist".
.Is such a story like any of the narrative discourses that abound today(Charles Taylor, Jerome Bruner, etc)?
.Where does it fit within the analytic tradition, in relation to lingustic [sic] models of meaning proposed by authors like Fodor, Searle or Putnam, for example?
.Is it closer to a corespondence (sic), coherence or pragmatic model of truth?
Oh, sorry about that. Didn't mean to rain on the parade. Let me offer you an umbrella — Bitter Crank
I have nothing against religion -- if it works for you, it's great. — Bitter Crank
We should still do those things because they make our brief stay nicer, whether there is a god to approve or disapprove. — Bitter Crank
An 'all good and loving' creator of cancer, malaria, Aids, famine, Hitler, Pol Pot, earthquakes... ? Sounds a bit disturbing to me. Is it some kind of weird psychopathic control-freak type of love you're thinking of? — Inter Alia
So, truth is what makes us feel good? — Harry Hindu
I don't know if it's true or not but lately I've begun to realize that to be good we need to give up reasoning. — TheMadFool
To tell you the truth I'm in a bit of a fix. I have two options before me. One is religion and the other atheism. My present situation is, let's say, ''inconvenient'' both ways. In a nutshell, God seems bloodthirsty and the nihilism of atheism is depressing. — TheMadFool
Please don't give up reasoning. Like Jesus said, we must be as harmless as doves and as wise as serpents. — Bitter Crank
God is too much a mystery to nail highly specific adjectives onto. — Bitter Crank
God is too much a mystery to nail highly specific adjectives onto. — Bitter Crank — TheMadFool
Why can't I pick the best parts of all God-beliefs and put them together in a way that makes sense to me. — TheMadFool
Not me. I want the truth - always. My feelings are secondary to the truth.Not always. Lies can be comforting too. Let's just say that the issue is quite complex. We need to be in touch with reality (know truths) to survive and evade pain but to be happy we sometimes need the odd lie, lies about our looks, our sexual prowess, our intelligence, our worth in society, etc. — TheMadFool
If it, in fact, matches your intuition then they haven't given you any knowledge at all, just told you what you already knew. — Inter Alia
What on earth makes you think religious people are at peace with themselves? — Inter Alia
Not me. I want the truth - always. My feelings are secondary to the truth. — Harry Hindu
Get involved in philosophical discussions about knowledge, truth, language, consciousness, science, politics, religion, logic and mathematics, art, history, and lots more. No ads, no clutter, and very little agreement — just fascinating conversations.