Mendalla, about 'god' you say [quote=Mendalla] I don't even ask the question anymore. For me, God (if God is there at all, but that's another discussion) isn't an interventionist supernatural being.
God, for me, must be something else.
God is the wonder and beauty of the world.
God is the forces shaping a world that is constantly changing.
God is the love and hope in human hearts.
Pondering my past as I sip on my morning coffee:. I remember as a young teen slowly waking up to the idea that the adult world was random & not "fair" or "rational." Most adults were motivated by fear, insecurity or just plain ignorance. Orwell's 1984 and Huxely's Brave New World shook me to my existential roots. My suspicions were confirmed. Yikes! This was the world I was entering. I had a feeling of being lied to. Science addressed the "how" but left out the "why!" School was boring! Churches were out of touch!
So, I've been thinking alot about antinatalism (click for link) and I was wondering what the fine folks at the 'cafe thought about the idea. The more I read about it the more I agree with the idea and the more it depresses me...
I just thought of these a while ago. They're not ideas of what a theoretical God is like so much as theories of his motivation, these being motivations other than absolute good, which resolve the why-is-there-suffering dilemma.
In this blog entry I address how attention modulates the significance of relationships.
One final post on free will, prompted by the recent mathematical Strong Free Will Theorem.
(No, the theorm itself is not mine.)
In these three posts, I flesh out why I think we have a measure of free will:
I myself am Agnostic. Agnostic is Greek for "doesn't know" or "don't know". I am a left-wing libertarian, and I think religion has brought nothing but evil and war upon this Earth.
Back to the question, do Christians look down on Agnostic thinkers and Atheists, mainly because we aren't accepting of your God or whatever? It's a tricky situation, mainly because Christians, creationists or a religion believing in God will say
"Well, how can you prove that God doesn't exist?"
In this series of blog posts, I'm going to explain why free will is not a matter of yes or no, but of how much:
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