capslockf9
Active Member
The OP asks you to engineer one in a thought experiment.
What is OP? And do you mean engineer a thought experiment for athiesm or racism?
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What if there was no religion in 500 years time...
- Thread starter Don Penguinoini
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What is OP? And do you mean engineer a thought experiment for athiesm or racism?
spiritually inclined
Active Member
i'm sort of an atheist/mystic myself...I don't really care what people believe 500 yrs. from now so long as they are moral and humane. The same is true today. Having a more scientific world might stop religious hate, but it wouldn't stop hate in general......James
arthra
Baha'i
I think many religions are going through a period of stress as never before and some of them may begin to collapse in time.. this will not necesarily mean though that atheism as such will be so dominant... There may be various reasons for this...culture and social factors could play a part.
Consider the Soviet Union where atheism was the supreme philosophy of the Communist Party and the power of the state was used to suppress and oppress religion... eventually some religion was allowed albeit coopted...and after eighty years of Communist rule, religion has re-emerged.
So i don't see atheism as a major force in five hundred years if it could barely perpetrate itself after eighty years in the former Soviet state through a most brutal suppression of religion.
- Art
Consider the Soviet Union where atheism was the supreme philosophy of the Communist Party and the power of the state was used to suppress and oppress religion... eventually some religion was allowed albeit coopted...and after eighty years of Communist rule, religion has re-emerged.
So i don't see atheism as a major force in five hundred years if it could barely perpetrate itself after eighty years in the former Soviet state through a most brutal suppression of religion.
- Art
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
P.S, just so everone knows, answer it like, you know this is to happen and you will live in it, thanks.
Melissa G
Non Veritas Verba Amanda
I can't see anything particulary amiss with an Atheist world community. Whether or not it would be any more peaceful is a mute point. In order for that to happen, the neo-cortex would have to have predominance in brain function. As it stands, we are largely goverened by our emotions, which rise out of the primitive lower brain, or limbic system. There are far more neural pathways from the limbic to the cortex, than loopbacks from the cortex to the limbic. A mere 500 years is nothing in evoultionary terms, so I think the world would just be as difficult to live in as it is today. Humans will remain in the grip of emotional fears and excesses.
Melissa G
Melissa G
lilithu
The Devil's Advocate
Original Post.
Or maybe it means Opening Post. :sarcastic
Oh well, the first post in the thread.
slabbey06
Bond-Servant of Christ
Hmmm. Even if 500 years from now the whole world has been taken over by atheism, and I'm an atheist, God will still exist whether we believe He does or not.
If I was an atheist 500 years from now I think I'd feel empty and alone.
capslockf9
Active Member
The OP asks you to engineer one in a thought experiment.
The ego is a powerfull force. It has lead many into a distorted reality. This nervous activity has produced much suffering to mankind. It has created religion, nationalities, races, etc. all out of fear.
5000 years from now we still will not know everything. And becuase we will not know everything; the nervous will conjure myths in an attempt to quash their anxiety. 5000 years from now we we still have to deal with ego-being.
Unless some kind of shake-up and reconfiguration of our neurons and their firings occurs. Propagtion in the energy field that produces us has fluctuated and will fluctuate again. This field produces matter and mind also it produces dreams, thoughts, memories and emotions. The next deviation in fluctuation will awaken many of us. They will see the light. They will know we are light.
If not we will continue with fear and its offspring- killings, nations, stealing, races, relinquishment to emotions, , indifference toward nature, religions, etc..
Unfortunatly i don't believe atheism will ever happen on a grand scale because so many people simply want to believe that there is something more to life than this, some deep meaning as to why we are here and they definately do not want to believe that there is nothing after death.
However it will be an athiest planet long before 500 years. Just as soon as the human race wipes itself out in fact.
However it will be an athiest planet long before 500 years. Just as soon as the human race wipes itself out in fact.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
Any mods around? Im getting annoyed. I dont want any answer irrelevant to my question, thats the readson of the thread...
capslockf9
Active Member
Athiesm will not make a better world; is true. Unenlightened can be athiest. Its is not God or No god that produces human suffering; but our inabilty to controll emotions. To remove the limbic portion of the brain will make us emotionless zombies. The object is awareness of emotions. They will surface and we can sense them or let them run amok with us.
Jeremiah
Well-Known Member
I disagree, there seems to be a trend going on here. I am still in speculation over the subject but I think we will see wider spread of atheistic philosophy. I was not even familiar with the word "atheist" until I was an adult and now it is on T.V. and in plain view at book stores.
Jeremiah
Well-Known Member
:tsk:
Perhaps you should look harder; there are compassionate and intelligent humans everywhere. I for one rank the human very high on the list of noble creatures, right under dogs. (The dogs out ranked us because of their unmatched unconditional love)
Melissa G
Non Veritas Verba Amanda
yes, it would make us zombies. I agee with you. It maybe also be a scary thought, but some have postulated that Genetic modification of the genes which drive the negative emotions in the Limbic System may be possible in the future. You just never know where things are going to end up.
Melissa G
MdmSzdWhtGuy
Well-Known Member
I would think, if in 500 years we are still alive, and everyone has dropped the notion of cosmic boogeymen controlling the destiny of the world, then people would be forced to confront the notion that this life is the only one they are going to get a crack at, and therefore they should live it the best and most beneficial way that they can. If this happened, then the world would be a much better place than it currently is.
I also think gays would be a lot safer, and we probably wouldn't hear about too many people blowing themselves and others up to please one of the cosmic boogeymen referred to earlier.
B.
I also think gays would be a lot safer, and we probably wouldn't hear about too many people blowing themselves and others up to please one of the cosmic boogeymen referred to earlier.
B.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
There probaby will be atheism, ssoner or later, religion is getting hated more and more every day.