Yes, I was going to say something similar. There are more things than just intelligence to find value in.
Like experience, wisdom, honesty. I'd rather an honest idiot than a dishonest genius.
Not to say intelligence has no value but it is just one among many traits that have value.
I generally find more support in the media I read for Islam than not.
Obviously highly dependent on which media you choose to read.
Support for Jews now feels about 50/50. It used to be higher but it seems to have declined lately.
The the group which seems to have the most criticism is against...
I know that if you create a concept of God or are fed a concept of God, your subconscious mind can take that information and create for you an experience of God which fulfills the expectations of the concept you harbor.
IOW, spiritual experiences can be created for you by the subconscious mind...
No, obviously our will is determined by us, the brain.
Determinism has to be predictable by past events. In most cases this is true. However this is not necessarily true in the case of humans.
Humans can imagine any past, present or future. What we imagine can be based on the real past an...
I suspect most likely I didn't exist. I imagine any afterlife to be much of the same.
However while in Scientology during auditing I did recall some very vivid other life experiences. So I understand why a person might believe in reincarnation. I did try to verify some of these experiences...
In that case the House elects the president and the Senate the vice president.
Both are supposed to be representative of the people so democracy would be safe I guess.
I can converse with someone on a phone without seeing them.
Not saying God called Moses on a telephone but sometimes you got to think outside of the box.
God for the most part doesn't work.
Whatever you think can be done with God is not very reliable.
Therefore God isn't very useful as a belief beyond self pleasuring.
Once you get beyond the need for continual self-pleasuring, you find there is very little need for God.
So here's a God belief...
According to some, since this is a deterministic universe, he had no free will to do otherwise.
Certainly those folks should understand his actions were determined at the beginning of the universe long before he was even born. :oops:
I've heard from a sociology professor who says he has visited the West Bank. He said Jewish and Muslim neighbors are generally friendly towards each other. Most people get along fine in these areas. Though this was before the current hostilities.