My beliefs being true is almost always a good thing so I care about that to a great degree. Mostly, though, I just care that my beliefs don't increase suffering and I hope that they decrease suffering.
I either want sex with her, I see her as a role model or both.
Or I just want a friendship with her.
Or I want a friendship + romance + sex + she is my role model. That is ideal.
I think that one key difference between this view and naturalistic pantheism is naturalistic pantheism doesn't necessarily say that every object is a subject.
I don't think nothingness can become anything, either. I think only things can change form to become other things.
I don't think that X can become Y unless X first exists. And I think being is existing. So I don't think that nothing can become anything because I don't think that nothing can be...
I think that if there was a Jesus he was in human form. It's the supernatural abilities of him that I would doubt. And, if Jesus doesn't have any supernatural abilities ... then is he really Jesus?
Now, for sake of argument, let's say that Christianity is true and that Jesus really is God...
Could you unpack this? I do think that we are all one. But I think that we, *at least in ONE sense*, have separate consciousnesses ... and thereby separate selves. Why do you think self appraisal is imporant? And, I think, that is the part that I most want you to unpack. The appraisal part.
I...
So, correct me if I am wrong, but, are you saying that, for that reason, since we don't think that 40-year old mothers shouldn't have children that it makes no more sense to say that a mother shouldn't be a mother via sexual congress with their first cousin?
I am not sure I understand. Are you saying that religion was originally intended to be good but it was corrupted ... or are you saying that religion was originally corrupt but it has, since then, become more good? Or are you not saying either of those things and I am just doing a bad job of...
What if ... . what if every single thing that exists, whether real or unreal, is just the exact same thing from a purely different perspective? Sounds really vague and woo-y and meaningless perhaps .... but, in other words, what if perspective is all there is? What if it is absolutely the case...
Even for anti-religionists .... religion is the answer. I don't mean that the anti-religious should become religious. I mean that religion is extremely impactful for *everybody* INCLUDING the anti-religious. [i.e. why bother being anti-religious if religion doesn't matter? Suffering may be bad...
The title of the song reminds me of one of my favorite songs that is, I'm sure, much less well known:
It's, also, the opening song to one of my favorite albums ever.
ETA: I'm trying my absolute best to respond to every single question on this thread and I am extremely excited and happy about...
Actually I mispoke! Who I mentioned as my favorite Esports athlete is the number 1 player of my favorite video game of all time. So he's my favorite for THAT reason. But my favorite in terms of who I enjoy spectating the most is actually somebody else.
The most skilled, #1 athlete, of my...
No I can't. For two reasons. (1) I don't know that tune. (2) Even if I did know that tune I, full-stop, can't sing in tune at all.
ETA: I just randomly noticed one reason why my avatar may have appealed to me. It reminds me of the video game Ascendancy. Which I like.
I re-watched this recently, actually. I agree that Dawkins won the debate ... but I do think that McGrath had at least half of a good point. Namely, when he said, to paraphrase from memory, "Probable or improbable... the question is *is* there a God?" .... the part that I think is half correct...
I hope I didn't post in the Christian section of the forum! Because if I did that was purely by accident and I apologize to the staff if that was the case. I have no intention of breaking any rules.
If you are referring to a DIR role on my profile ... I don't think I have any? Perhaps check it...
I chose a royalty free image because they're not copywrited and I don't want to get sued or have my avatar removed. But I looked at plenty of images that didn't appeal to me before I picked this one. And I don't know why this appealed to me more than the others.
I don't think you are. I am...
Exactly my thoughts.
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I do that a lot. And when I've done that online in the past I've had a lot of people telling me that they thought I was female. I always respond by telling them that I think it's just an absence of masculinity rather than inherently female.
I think most people draw...