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  • Infinite Bananas
    Bananas are a great source of potassium, and consequently, good laxatives as well.
  • What are your favorite video games?
    I never really got into adventure games or any of that. I mostly enjoy BF4. Big sandbox and you can play tactically.
  • What can logic do without information?
    Haha yes, logic becomes whatever tf' you want it to be.
  • What can logic do without information?
    Yea, I think logic requires some sort of substance to use it upon. Also, I think some of the logic/intuition that a newborn is born with, comes from the genetic information that is passed to him/her.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    You make a good point. I do understand that parents will always have been your parents, it's something you can't change. However, I do wish that the moral part of the parent-to-child relationship is that children grow up, become completely independent of their parents, and are not under any sort of authority that the parent may/may-want to hold upon them. I agree with you, that caring for your child even after your child is a grown independent adult is more moral than not caring for children after they reach adulthood. Love and care in a healthy parent-to-child relationship should in my opinion be a lifelong yet balanced thing that should occur. My thing is more at the authoritative and power factor in the relationship. What do you think?
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    Makes sense. God gives free will to his creation. Such free will includes both the ability of good and evil. Such ability of free will comes from God himself. Would that also then mean that God has the ability to create evil, even be evil himself?
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    Hmm, I think the idea of freedom should constitute to the idea of morality. Therefore if there is authority being exercised over someone who only has limited freedom, such limited freedom is the result of such authority being exercised upon such person. If the person is not able to have full freedom of their self due to the authority being placed upon them, to which such person has no control over, I can see a moral dilemma of authority.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    To everyone who responded, I hope I am not coming off as rude or defiant. I am just honestly expressing my thoughts so I can discuss it with y'all. It is very interesting and intriguing to me. Again, thanks for all the responses!
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    @Ferzeo Hi, thanks for your response! From what I understood from your response, I guess you see God as a spiritual "parent". You also mentioned "I believe that God does create us without our consent and sustains us (spiritually) until we are of an age when we can spiritually take care of ourselves.". In the case that one becomes of age where one can spiritually take care of ones self, does that make one become their own God? Just wondering what you would think of this?
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    Kind of agree with you. I've never actually read the full Bible, and use to rely more on preachers to narrate it to me. After actual consideration and thought, I even found many preachers mixing up and confusing the writings themselves further if they were already not so. I am quite curious on studying theology to better understand the Bible and other religious texts and the whole process and reasons on their creation.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    @CFR73 Hi, thanks for the warm welcome! The idea of limited free will appears immoral to me. It can be compared to a slave owner giving their slave some limited "freedoms" such as you can wear either wear gloves, or not wear gloves at all while using the pick-axe. I think the concept limited free-will is not actually free-will. When you put a limit on it, is it really free will? I think free will should be whole, if it's limited, then it's not free will.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    @god must be atheist Hi there. Is it not kind of the moral responsibility of the creator to create one who is moral. If the creator creates immoral, does that not make the creator immoral?
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    @philrelstudent Hi, thanks for your detailed response! I understood from your response that you believe that another characteristic of personal well-being is "moral" well-being. I agree. As you mentioned, most parents (I hope) try to teach their children the best form of morality that they personally have learned themselves as "grown" adults. Parents do this because they want the best for their children, I agree with you. However, I believe that there comes a point where in a parent-to-child relationship, morality becomes a personal belief and decision that one makes, where the parents morals (even though might be similar) are a separate individual set of morals apart from the grown child's morals. The child becomes morally independent from the parent. In the case of a God-to-human relationship, independence of morality is never achieved by the human. The human will forever be bound and set to abide by God's never changing set of morals. An example of such moral in Christianity is that you must bend your knee to God and worship him forever. If you don't believe such call to action from God is moral, then you "punish" yourself because of your immoral understanding towards this call to action. This of course assumes "God" is a conscious being, instead of some sort of unconscious force that is not a deity. In most religions, the set of morals on the relationship between God and humans never changes, always leaving the human as the bottom tier being in the relationship forever.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    Whoa! I did not expect so many great responses! I would like to respond to some of these.

    @KrystalZ The analogy of a worker-to-boss relationship to me seems very different than the comparison of God-to-Human relationship.It seems to me that in a worker-to-boss relationship, such relationship is one which is widely open for many changes. For example, an employee is working for the employer out of the employee's choice to do so. The employee may resign the job anytime, and become an employer themselves for the same trade. In comparison to a God-to-human relationship, in most religions, one does not have the ability to and is not advised to try to become their own God. Such attempt would be extremely immoral in many religions. To me, the employee-to-boss relationship is actually very different to a God-to-human relationship, that comparisons of the two types of relationships yield incoherent comparisons.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    I appreciate everyone's responses. It helped me see the topic in different perspectives.
  • Morality of the existence of a God
    I mean, I definitely was a believer because logic and facts took a long time and effort to convince me otherwise. I don't think many people in America have died because of becoming independent from their parents. I think it is a good think to bring up these questions about morality. It helps you think more critically about your religion if you are able to compare such to the "real" world, even if it's just in small ways. Because my views are not universal is the reason that I bring the topic up, so that I can get to see the views of others at least in this forum, and understand why such people have their specific views.