Is God Rational?

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  1. Musika Last in Space Valued Senior Member

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    Anger, impatience, mimicry and obscure internet memes?

    Despite all the odds that are seemingly stacked against it, life and all its glorious abstractions ultimately prevail at every moment!

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  3. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    But I don't have to engage in strategic self-deception.
     
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  5. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    Good for you. If you have the answer to existence, please do share.
     
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  7. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    OK, here it is... Just deal with not having an answer.
     
  8. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    Life is predictable yet unpredictable, so yeah, it's irrational. I don't know how all knowledge can be contained within one individual, but maybe as a collective conscious it is possible.


    Such as good and evil? Meaning has more depth, I believe, than just a pair of labels, but it is our nature to reduce everything into the most simple equation.

    It depends on the accusation and whether I was guilty of the crime.

    He made his choices in life, I make my own. There's also the moral aspect to be considered--are our choices merely directed by potential consequence? As an example, I think it immoral to murder.

    I think you eventually reach a point where you accept your limitations and give gratitude for what you do have rather than what you don't have. We can use other people as inspiration to further ourselves.
     
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  9. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    Isn't that what we are doing? Having faith in the ultimate good of simply being is dealing with the uncertainty.What's the problem?
     
  10. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    It's not always good, is it?
     
  11. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    how is it not good? Life? What do you mean?
     
  12. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    If you're referring to life, you are absolutely, undeniably correct. It can be downright horrible. I can't make any excuses for that. A rational mind might reason himself out of existence, an irrational mind might use faith to keep himself standing.
     
  13. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    ...and thus keep suffering more? I thought the point was to reduce suffering.
     
  14. Musika Last in Space Valued Senior Member

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  15. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    What would be the rational end to suffering, since we both know life involves suffering?

     
  16. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Scientific understanding and technological solutions to the source of specific forms of suffering.
     
  17. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    That is a noble cause, and we have reduced suffering to some degree, but I don't believe we will eliminate it. We might create more suffering in our effort to bring it to an end. What do you think?
     
  18. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Internal drug glands, machine bodies, personality digitization, don't be so pessimistic!
     
  19. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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  20. Musika Last in Space Valued Senior Member

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    Technology is seen to serve greed, delusion and hatred rather than put an end to them.
     
  21. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    There's good to be had from technology. But it can also serve ill. As always, it's a mixed bag.
     
  22. Musika Last in Space Valued Senior Member

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    "Serve" is the operative word.
     
  23. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    how do you mean?
     

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