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originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: AlienView
we are all insignificant, inconsequential, and meaningless together.
originally posted by: Ghost147
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: AlienView
we are all insignificant, inconsequential, and meaningless together.
People turn to religion to run from this reality. What better way to make a person feel special then by accepting an invisible make-believe friend that works for you by answering your prayers and hating the same people you hate?
Our insignificance in the great span of time and the universe is far too overpowering to some minds.
your acceptance is irrelevant. ponder, if you will, the trillions of people whom no one remembers or even cares about not remembering..........
originally posted by: AlienView
Existence could not even exist without a mind to perceive and define it
originally posted by: Ghost147
originally posted by: AlienView
Existence could not even exist without a mind to perceive and define it
Things exist regardless if there is consciousness that it exists.
Does water exist on planets in other galaxies? We've never directly witnessed it, but we know it exist through objective reasoning.
Does sound exist if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it? Yes, of course it does.
The first part of your tangent was reasonable, but then you kind of staggered off at the end there.
originally posted by: AlienView
Really? Prove it! - I have no idea what exists
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
I see your point Ghost147 and know science has to 'assume' an existent reality to function
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
that the examples you give of perceiving the universe [cameras, telescopes, etc.] and the calculations that
follow are based upon Human observation and calculations of the Human mind using Human instruments of
measurement with Human calculations - the reality that follows and
its logic are based on the Human mind.
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
What the 'real world' looks like without a mind to perceive and define it I can not imagine - Can you?
originally posted by: AlienView
TzarChasm wrote:
your acceptance is irrelevant. ponder, if you will, the trillions of people whom no one remembers or even cares about not remembering..........
Yes, I could consider that - But I would rather consider Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche , Einstein, the profundity and
absurdity of religious thought and the effects and affects Man's mind might have on existence itself - and how existence
could not even exist without a mind to perceive and define it and how some can imagine logic happening out of chaos.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
- Albert Einstein
But I fault no one for being an Existentialist and taking the easy way out - And oftien quote the great Existentialst
philosopher Alfred E. Neuman [Mad Magazine] when he utered the profound words:
"What Me Worry?"
“The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.”
― Niels Bohr
“...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
“You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.”
― Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
1. No two conscious entities [or Humans] can exist in exactly the same place at the same time - therefor every perception of so-called reality is different and only a symbolic language open to various interpretations gives any unity to what you call reality.
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
2. In real time reality does not exist - since perception of reality has passed as soon as you perceive it - In an absolute sense reality does not exist - Reality is always a relative perception of existence. You can only define reality in an absolute sense if you could freeze time and the universe - You can not and therefor realty is in a constant state of change - What you perceive is a momentary illusion of an unfolding existence you can not fully understand.
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
You see your reality and its perception are not the same as mine - Your perception of reality is based upon your bias
- Mine might be too, but I at least recognize bias and 'observer effect' for what it is - You do not.
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
So apparently we are not in complete disagreement. Claims I make that are of a philosophical nature of course are difficult if not impossible to prove - they are of course in some ways hypothetical - The way I see it.
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
But for the purpose of science we must accept 'a' reality - But like I said even men of science have come to accept what is called 'the observer effect' - We are in some ways creating and influencing reality as we perceive it.
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: Ghost147
What do you think of this statement by the famous science writer Carl Sagan:
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
originally posted by: AlienView
Are the Atheists right Humans? - Do you create a mythical non-existent being as excuses to dominate and kill each other? What is this being that empowers you to destroy? - This God of destruction, this anti-Human entity? You can hardly blame the Atheists can you? - And see why many so-called Humanists are Atheists.
But I have a problem - I am Agnostic [defined to mean I can neither prove nor disprove an ultimate reason for existence and/or I can neither prove or disprove the existence of an ultimate entity or intelligence ruling the universe]. Maybe I should leave it go at that - for anything I might then conclude will be unconcludable - or will it?
Why does this species, Man, an apparently evolved animal keep affirming the existence of an advanced intelligence even though most Humans refuse to accept their own intelligence? - they use religion as an excuse for their own ineptitude - And blame the other persons God for their stupidity - Stupid and inept - And no god I can imagine will cater to stupid and inept - No he will no longer forgive you - He will tell you you are stupid and inept and blaspheme his very concept every time you use him for Deviltry - And you who kill in God's name are Devils - you know what the Devil is don't you Human? - The Devil, the real God Man worships. Call a spade a spade as they would say.
Still reading this? OK, time for a couple of quick quotes from another Agnostic [in my opinion]:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
- Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
- Albert Einstein
So should we all go home, become Atheists and forget the ugly history of Man abusing himself in the name of God? - Its not that simple - for once the concept of omnipotence, of devine intelligence is awakened in the Human psyche - it is hard to dismiss - some dreams do not just go away no matter how hard you try to stop them - The dream of an almighty and beneficent deity has become so fixated in the Haman mind that all Atheists, communists, or whoever will never make the dream of God end. God is mans dream of omnipotence and immortality - And what weak meaningless species we would be if we were to accept that we were nothing more than a meaningless animal, part of a meaningless evolution without direction of purpose - For a few of you this might be easy - for me it is unacceptable - I will forever dream the impossible dream - that is the destiny of Man - to become as the God of his dreams - Evolution without limits an intelligence that always evolves and knows no end.
In the beginning was the word and the word was with God - And how well does Man understand words? The machine you are staring at and the internet you are communicating on is a new testament to Man reaching for the heavens - Let us take heed and not let it fall in ruin like the Tower of Babel of the past.
Let us take stock of History, reappraise it and say:
WELCOME TO THE NEW DAWN !!!
-AlienView [aka: UniversalAlien]
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