Not a problem, X. I accept you hold your own views about life. It's a diverse world.And Bowser I am really sorry for being aggresive and generally giving you a hard time.
Please forgive me so I can rationalise that all has ended well.
Alex
Not a problem, X. I accept you hold your own views about life. It's a diverse world.And Bowser I am really sorry for being aggresive and generally giving you a hard time.
Please forgive me so I can rationalise that all has ended well.
Alex
That's your dead universe meaning isn't it. Your saying without a religious belief we are dead
It would seem we are not in control.
Most of the Universe is dead
Only a very tiny teeny weeny part of the Universe is alive
The individual segments of life do not stay alive for long
Bowser said: ↑
It would seem we are not in control.
Correct
That task is left to physics
Someone remarked physics is reality which still believes in you even if you do not believe in it.
Your way is raising oatmeal with butter in the belief that there is a god.You can turn it into a religion and give homage if you wish. I do in my own way.
Who said we were?It would seem we are not in control.
Raise your morning oatmeal in thanks and you could live forever. Me, I check the oatmeal box for any coupons.The individual segments of life do not stay alive for long
Raise your morning oatmeal in thanks and you could live forever. Me, I check the oatmeal box for any coupons.
I try to remember to say thanks every time life gives me something. And I give back when I can.Your way is raising oatmeal with butter in the belief that there is a god.
All the much more to be thankful--we're still around to talk about it.Who said we were?
It's appropriate to be thankful for those things that come our way, whether it be a bowl of oatmeal or coupons on the back of the box.Raise your morning oatmeal in thanks and you could live forever. Me, I check the oatmeal box for any coupons.
why?It's appropriate to be thankful for those things that come our way, whether it be a bowl of oatmeal or coupons on the back of the box.
One of the things about Evolution is chance mutations, we are still around courtesy of those.All the much more to be thankful--we're still around to talk about it.
I see a Natural Universe without a god, like the one you imagined.
If you believe everything is by chance, including your own existence, maybe you should give thanks for your good fortune.One of the things about Evolution is chance mutations, we are still around courtesy of those.
Your saying they were not chance events and I should give thanks to something for that?
If you believe everything is by chance, including your own existence, maybe you should give thanks for your good fortune.
Yet here you are. Would you want it any other way?If if if you really are looking for somewhere to park your thanks look no further than CHANCE and PHYSICS
Yet here you are. Would you want it any other way?
What alternatives would you have preferred?YES - but options are not a option
Yes, in your eyes or beliefs you like to understand the world as something like the film ''Gangs of New York '', them and us. How many religions are there?We live in a world where there are people who are without God. We can understand that they are not really without God, but they have chosen to live as though there is no God.
That's as good as it gets.Jan.
What is it with you and this ''thanks'' thing. You like thanking things that's up to you, and I'm not being funny, but thats puts me in mind of someone who has one of those counting compulsions, yours is thanking things.If you believe everything is by chance, including your own existence, maybe you should give thanks for your good fortune.
What alternatives would you have preferred?
I'm here because I'm here.Yet here you are. Would you want it any other way?
I'm here because I'm here.
Ok, if I buy this god thing and to keep on its good side, I go around thanking it for everything and everything that happens to me, what does that get me? what does the reward give me? Would I be an individual whatnot someplace ''living forever'' whatever thats means here? What does this ''living forever'' mean?
Would this ''Living forever'' mean ''I'm'' exposed to this god's eternal causing of suffering to those not yet dead. Do I have to keep telling myself I'm enjoying this ''living forever'' because I'm not suffering? Is that all there is to this ''living forever'' thing?