And it could be what the truth sounds like. You're going to take this as 50/50 chance? Everything has many interpretations abstractly. — Gregory
As I said, God answers prayers as he wants, not as faithless people want. — Gregory
If you don't want to find truth than you are truly devoid of both the philosophical and religious spirit. — Gregory
All I know of God is what I've experienced throughout my life and God is infinite so I must know little about him — Gregory
As I said, God answers prayers as he wants, not as faithless people want. — Gregory
So why blame "biochemists" for not being "mystics"? Science does what it's exceptionally good at and nothing more. Criticizing a hammer for not being a paint brush or a theorem for not being a sonnet profoundly misunderstands each of them. Sciences and arts are not 'mutually exclusive' practices or ways of being (Laozi). — 180 Proof
I see progress in the universe, from matter to life to consciosuness and this forward movement is in danger of being impeded/reversed by science e.g. love is oxytocin — Agent Smith
Well, being free of the illusion of (evolutionary?) "progress" or the facile reduction of "science" to "reductionism", I'm not disturbed in the least by our human all too human, Faustian bargains. Apotheosis or extinction sooner rather than later? The prevailing entropy gradient of this cosmic neighborhood inspires me! Amor fati (aka "wu wei"), amigo. :fire:there's something rather disturbing about reductionism (read science). I see progress in the universe, from matter to life to consciosuness and this forward movement — Agent Smith
How till that impede or reverse the progress of the universe? For that matter, how can a human activity interfere with the universe at all? — Vera Mont
there's something rather disturbing about reductionism (read science). I see progress in the universe, from matter to life to consciosuness and this forward movement
— Agent Smith
Well, being free of the illusion of (evolutionary?) "progress" or the facile reduction of "science" to "reductionism", I'm not disturbed in the least by our human all too human, Faustian bargains. Apotheosis or extinction sooner than later? The prevailing entropy gradient of this cosmic neighborhood inspires me! Amor fati (aka "wu wei"), amigo. :fire: — 180 Proof
QAnon? How are you distinguished from Stalin I can ask? — Gregory
How do you arrive at this? What relationship with god/s must one have to make a claim like this?
As I said, God answers prayers as he wants, not as faithless people want.
— Gregory — Tom Storm
:roll:Matter →→ Life →→ Consciousness.Why?There clearly is a sequence here, oui monsieur? — Agent Smith
Spinoza is an acosmist who rejects theistic / deistic (i.e. transcendent) divinity and deems such religions superstitions.But you seem to be saying Spinoza wasn't an atheist? — Gregory
"Life —> Consciousness" —> Extinction aka "matter". A sequence (e.g. Möbius loop) =/= "progress — 180 Proof
My favorite speculation –What are the wider ramifications of this simple cyclical pattern? — Agent Smith
Why is atheism the default? I'm just claiming what I know from experience. — Gregory
:roll:Acosmismistheism. — Gregory
Why would God pay attention to willful disbelief? If it's not willful than faith can come in its due time. To ask for proof from God is not to exercise prayer. You sound like a Catholic talking to a Protestant "how do you know how to read the Bible without the Pope as it's interpreter? Ya'll disagree with each other". A Protestant uses prayer to read the Bible and it doesn't matter if others disagree with him. You are trying to see things from a God's eye view — Gregory
Why should we accept this experiential knowledge as opposed to similar claims from other theists who, let's say, know from experience that god wants 'fags to burn in hell' and that women are inferior to men?
What is the nature of this experience and how can we tell what is true from what is false? — Tom Storm
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