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What's your opinion on free will?

I am religious and believe in free will
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I am religious and do not believe in free will
- 10 (3.9%)
I am not religious and believe in free will
- 114 (44.5%)
I am not religious and do not believe in free will
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Author Topic: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion  (Read 681296 times)

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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4470 on: January 10, 2016, 11:41:21 pm »

So rolepgeek made an unsupported assumption, k33n claimed it was false...  Then you demand that k33n provide proof?  I wouldn't comment except that I feel like I offered the counterexample you're asking for...
While I'm not denying that I didn't provide support for it, if you believe that there is nothing more to the universe than the interactions of atoms, there is no such thing as something being inherently right or wrong, objectively speaking. Things just are. Going by the opinion of the vast majority of people accomplishes nothing in this regard (certainly not for me). But yes, that's not an objective basis for morality, which was my point.

Humans are very good at making finding connections and patterns that don't exist, origami. It's how narrative works. No offense meant. Happens in most things with a brain. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, and with small enough sample sizes, it doesn't even do that. Given a wide enough interpretation, you can justify anything as having happened (as I was saying when I made the WALLOFTEXT post about predictions and oracles).
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4471 on: January 10, 2016, 11:47:31 pm »

The funny thing about prayer is that it is not you placing your will and desires on God, but you conforming to God's will. So whatever reason God had for not answering your prayers in the way you think they should be answered is all part of his will for your life.
But that means God didn't want me.  And while that may sound like a "gotcha" now...  At the time, it was just disappointing.  Painful, to be honest, because I *needed* something.

And the things I found, in desperation, aren't... let's say, things the Bible approves of.  And this was ~8 years ago.  So if this is God's plan, it's a long plan indeed.  We'll see, I suppose.

Faith as defined by the Bible is "being sure of what you hope, and certain of what you do not see."
... Thank you for trying to explain, but I still have trouble understanding how someone could consider that a good or reasonable course of action.  Obviously it goes against reason and science, but more than that...  It goes against harsh experience.  Hope is something we consider possible, even if it's probably wrong, because we need it.  "This *might* be true, despite all indications".

Which is useful, even necessary for survival.  But why would one try to convince others -
Oh right.  Christianity, and other successful religions, have probably evolved to be evangelical.  Which is why they're successful.
There are more Christians than Jews, after all.
Ain't that the truth.
yeah.  That sure is like some nightmares I've had, over and over.

As Jehovah demands that people believe or be punished... imagine the opposite.  The more you know of them, the more they see you.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4472 on: January 10, 2016, 11:53:59 pm »

Hope is in part having faith that it is true, Rolan. At least for some people. People just think different.

When someone comes to me and tells me their moral system says X and Y? If mine doesn't match up, then I tell them that they built it wrong.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4473 on: January 10, 2016, 11:59:28 pm »

So rolepgeek made an unsupported assumption, k33n claimed it was false...  Then you demand that k33n provide proof?  I wouldn't comment except that I feel like I offered the counterexample you're asking for...
Democratic morality isn't objective, though. It's going to change over time as popular opinion changes. It's subjective by definition.
...I actually missed the word "objective" in:
Psychosis is believing that something is true, in your heart, without evidence or even against evidence.

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There is no objective basis for morality that does not lead to conclusions that the vast majority of people find repugnant. Wireheading or Pascal's Mugging or the Repugnant Conclusion or the Sadistic Conclusion.

Maybe because... what the hell does objective mean in that context?  Either there's objective morality or there isn't, it doesn't matter whether people find it repugnant.

So I was pointing out that there are definitely moral codes that the "vast majority of people" wouldn't "find repugnant".  Meaningful, useful ones...  Which happen to be the 10 commandments (minus the Jehovah-worship and women-as-property).  Are they "objective"?  They're objectively useful, and I don't know what else to say.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4474 on: January 11, 2016, 12:05:18 am »

Faith is almost required by Science. We have to make assumptions at some point and we can use stuff like Ockham's razor to narrow them down but in the end, you still have to assume something that has not been proven.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4475 on: January 11, 2016, 12:20:33 am »

That's not really the same thing. The assumption made at the core of science is that we can observe reality. The assumptions made at the core of various religions are a little more far-fetched - there is/isn't a god, X book is accurate to said god's intention, and so on.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4476 on: January 11, 2016, 12:29:45 am »

I suppose so. Nevermind. I need sleep.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4477 on: January 11, 2016, 12:33:39 am »

Orthodoxy is apparently considered "Other Christian sect" while Protestantism and LDS get their own poll responses...
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4478 on: January 11, 2016, 12:37:14 am »

As we all know, Orthodox don't use the internet because it causes their beards to spontaneously combust, and as such no poll option is required.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4479 on: January 11, 2016, 01:12:37 am »

Huh, I never even noticed that. Most of those were added on request, and Orthodox was apparently never requested.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4480 on: January 11, 2016, 02:18:22 am »

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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4481 on: January 11, 2016, 03:27:52 am »

I'm gonna go have nightmares about that Hidden Person video.

As for morality, it's my view that you simply learn how best to interact within society. There are always new rules being made up on how to be moral - highway code - and we should follow them where reasonable as it helps society get along better,
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4482 on: January 11, 2016, 05:56:33 am »

Psychosis is believing that something is true, in your heart, without evidence or even against evidence.

FTFY
There is no objective basis for morality that does not lead to conclusions that the vast majority of people find repugnant. Wireheading or Pascal's Mugging or the Repugnant Conclusion or the Sadistic Conclusion.

Most of this seems to be unnecessary qualifiers. Let's jsut leave it at "there is no objective basis for morality"
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4483 on: January 11, 2016, 08:25:13 am »

So I read (part of) the bible recently and I read the Illiad and Odyssey and it occurred to me that I could find no reason why one of the 2 works should be considered to have a greater validity than the other.

Why DO people think the Bible/Quran/other religious books give an accurate description of reality?
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: I am Enlightened by my Euphoria
« Reply #4484 on: January 11, 2016, 08:32:10 am »

People used to think the Iliad and Odyssey were real as well.

It's not a question of which is more valid as a reality - it's a question of the book which is being taught as real in whatever period of time. Today, it's the Bible. Yesterday, Homer. Tomorrow? Who knows.

Ultimately, one's believed because people want to believe it. It's got nothing to do with which is more likely.
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