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by lst 18y ago
I can only speak for myself, and this is the way I see it (but this is already Faith): "God" is defined this way: the only one not caused by anything else. So, if God is the only one not caused by anything, but simply cause of Himself, nobo
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by lst 18y ago
And you know what "logic" means? You can't act against "logic" without hurting yourself. If you are a hacker (like me), you never ever can act against logic, otherwise your program won't work (and exactly the same happens with life itse
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by lst 18y ago
Sorry to correct you, but you're actually kind of shy (that is, not really determined): You simply confirm that if 3 persons of human species are exposed to the same reality (yes, reality, because the impressions may be different, but the
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by lst 18y ago
I only explained the basic principles of logic...
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by lst 18y ago
If you say: "I cannot know whether a god exists or not.", you already say that you are not cause of yourself (otherwise you would know ), and, consequently, there must be another cause outside yourself : And this is exactly the de
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by lst 18y ago
Yes, you are always free to misunderstand. The interesting thing is: some do, some do not. (We have physics, chemistry, and others, exactly to distinguish different levels...)
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by lst 18y ago
Agnostics are shy atheists. If the answer is either yes or no, and you say "maybe", you say "no", substantially. Why? Because every "no" is simply a refuted "yes" (philosophically speaking).
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by lst 18y ago
I have a (simple) question to all atheists: If you didn't create yourself (and you didn't , otherwise you would know/remember/etc.), and (consequently) some other one did , how do you call it ?
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by lst 18y ago
Let me explicitly repeat your statement: You say that the human brain would (in theory) be able to create something more intelligent than itself? (Are you aware of the irony?)
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by lst 18y ago
BTW: I really love the "0 karma" feature from sites like this one: It helps very, very much not to waste too much time here, given that I never learned anything substantial on places like this one. May I cite some better teachers: - b
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by lst 18y ago
That's not the point. The human brain is quite "infinitely" interconnected, and this is something which not only would be really, really hard to solve with a physical machine: it's simply impossible. I understand the fascination of a real s
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by lst 18y ago
Intelligence can't be measured in huge numbers, and every single human brain is infinitely more intelligent than any possible computer. It's not me saying this, but science.
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by lst 18y ago
I said "physical" to exclude the misunderstanding.
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by lst 18y ago
...and is it finally coming close to .00001 % of a human brain? If someone is excited about that, what about the human brain itself? Just a simple information: The human brain is the most complex thing in the whole universe, or: all of phys
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by lst 18y ago
Another really important feature is missing: For people like me, who every now and then make completely unpopular comments (with some negative consequences, at least mathematically speaking), it would be nice if we could get more and more i
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by lst 18y ago
I seem to recognize the pattern: Everybody seems to encourage (even in a contradictory way) the proper opinion, and refutes quite absolutely the proper change of it... Poor humanity, if everybody thinks like this...
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by lst 18y ago
Thanks, personally I never take any citation literally, both parts (agreeing and opposing) could have, even subconsciously, changed some parts. As for the book I mentioned: it didn't influence or change my mind, it has only been a very, ver
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by lst 18y ago
OK, in the first chapter of the book (page 19), there is this paragraph (I'm not good in translating to English, but I'll try): "Einstein said that the natural laws are revealing such a superior reason, that all of human thinking and orderi
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by lst 18y ago
...and sorry for this annotation: The US certainly suffers 'superficiality' more than any other country. If you want to find really scientific stuff about religion, you often need to go back to good old Europe...
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by lst 18y ago
Do you know Italian? If yes, it's a book I'd recommend to everybody : Author: Antonio Socci (a really good and meticulous italian journalist) Name: "Indagine su Gesù" It's a plain scientific research about the life of Jesus (with many many
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by lst 18y ago
Even if you succeed, you will not be happy. Peace and porn are not friends.
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by lst 18y ago
You cite from 1929? There are many many citations, and often contradictory ones. He certainly changed his opinion during his lifetime. My source is a book (here in Europe, from 2008, not english). If you google a bit, you can find any kind
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by lst 18y ago
Einstein explicitly stated to believe in God (but not in the christian or hebrew one), and he explicitly derived this from the supreme intelligence which he found in natural laws. And philosophy is science, but it's no natural science. An
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by lst 18y ago
Atheism is getting older and older. I know that I'm offensive now, but atheists seem to me like people offending their own intelligence. Let me cite Louis Pasteur: A little bit of science moves away from God, but much science makes return t
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by lst 18y ago
Do you know the definition of (christian) faith? Faith informs us: God himself talked to us (see the Bible), and even visited us (see Jesus Christ). But you need faith for that, and faith is not something that we can produce or create, it
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by lst 18y ago
(I'm simply too curious to listen to some convincing argument against my poor expositions... is there really no really convinced atheist out there willing to contrast my poor opinion? If it is really this way: poor poor poor atheism...)
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by lst 18y ago
Ego gratification is not bad: it's good and even necessary to grow. But we can't always (by ourselves) distinguish between gratification (read: elevating growth) and egoism (destructive growth). So we need some 'illumination', which i
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by lst 18y ago
Religion is always referring to something that we can not reach with our own intelligence. It's in the nature of this concept that it can be faked in infinite ways...
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by lst 18y ago
So you mean that I mean that atheists are close-minded? What does 'atheist' really mean? It's the negation of God, OK? Many of the best scientists out there initially were atheists, and have been convinced by science itself of the exist
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by lst 18y ago
A real religion is elevating the best part of yourself, without encouraging some too human inclination (I could make examples, but I don't want to). All 'fake' religions are (in reality) some kind of auto-idolatry (let it be violence, egoce

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