Re: Confidence in your beliefs.
Ghost with the most wrote:I do not belive in god in any religous way, however i do belive that there is, for a lack of a better phrase, "afterlife". I obviously have no evidence to back up my statement.
Then what gives you faith (which is what a belief without evidence is) that there is an afterlife? Where does that come from?
Ghost with the most wrote:But if science is right then the whole universe and everything in it is a fluke, a massive coincidence.
This sounds like you're confusing the issue of the origin of the universe, and the origin of life on earth. I don't think most evolutionary biologists would use the words "fluke" or "coincidence" to describe the origin of life on earth, although maybe some would... we just happen to be in a place in the universe that is uncommon... supporting carbon-based life on a timescale that permitted randomly occurring mutations to select themselves out into a rich diversity of complex species.
Ghost with the most wrote:Also i am not a hundred percent but i am pretty sure they can jump start a heart, how come they cant give a dying brain a reboost? is it because they cant simulate the energy that controls it? i heard somewhere that it might be kinetic energy, if this is true then it has to go somewhere right?
You can't "reboost" a dying brain because brain cells start to break down after a few minutes... you have considerably more time for the heart, but cells still die. But the brain, in order to function as it did prior to an insult, cannot withstand the knocking out of a few hundred neurons nearly as well as the heart can by knocking out a few hundred cardiac muscle cells.
Ghost with the most wrote:At the same time i cant belive that there is a all seeing all powerful entity that gorverns over us,
Neither can I.
Ghost with the most wrote:running the risk of insulting some people, i think religion is just a tool to try and govern over the population.
that's not it's only purpose... some have and continue to use it as such... but that's not its primary purpose nor the reason it rose to such widespread acceptance.
Ghost with the most wrote:I mean in the bible,in the second part it says to love your neighbor and care for others, when the first part is incest and murder, plauges and floods. Im sorry but this is coming from a god who said something along the lines of "Because you ate the apple im going to give you and all your daughters and their daughters (and so on) pains in their belly once a month for a week. (That is, IF you belive it.)From what i can gather IF the christian god is a real entity,hes not a peaceful loving creator, hes probably the opposite.
That's because it was a sloppily assembled text by countless authors over hundreds of years.
Ghost with the most wrote:Also one other thing, i see people everyday and they are all so confident that what they belive is IT, nothing else is going to sway them, to be fair im kinda envious of them because im constantly struggling with the "is there? isn't there?" it just something i cant get a fix on, but reading a earlier post discusing wether life was pointless or not a lot of people have one hundred percent, one way or the other, got a grip on their morality or spitiuality or whatever, im just curious as to how and why that their so sure they are right.
I think that anyone who refuses to assimilate evidence and allow it to alter their way of thinking isn't really
sure of anything. But for some people, it's more important to paint the world in black and white than it is to figure it out as you go. It really comes down to what way of interacting with the world you can live with. I, being from the "Show Me State", am not like the religious zealots. I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong... you just have to show me evidence that's better than the stuff I have in my back pocket.
Ghost with the most wrote:i really don't want to upset anybody i just want to ask others opinions on these thoughts. i understand that the beauty of this planet we live on is that we are all born free, free to belive what we want and live our lives the way we see fit. I have full respect for others opinions and beliefs.
So do I... but the religious right in America is not content to live-and-let-live. Some, but a significant minority, see it as their god-given duty to align our society with a vision consistent with their god's beliefs. And that's where some of have said, "Enough already."
You're asking the right questions... all that matters is that you find answers that satisfy you without compromising your sense of reason.
I think you're well on your way.
