Okay, seriously, what was that last sentence for?
A joke, therefore: the winky
He said you should only become atheist if you have proof, but there's no proof for atheism (or theism, for that matter). I found that funny.
Joining a cult is "growth"? Developing a mental illness, beginning to wear tinfoil hats and saying that aliens are after you is "growth"?
Believe it or not, yes it is. People who have suffered are usually the more interesting ones. They have had one or more points in life where they realised they were wrong about something. People who have believed weird stuff and finally realised it was weird and stopped, are way more interesting than people who didn't believe it in the first place.
Let me (stay with me now) take a bible parable (I'll keep it short, promise!):
Two brothers: One pious and devout, the other living life to the max. Eventually, both die, and come to heaven. God favours the rebellious one above the one who has devoted his life to God. The pious one is enraged and asks why. God answers that the other brother has, at the en of his life, come to the realisation that what he had been doing was wrong. He knew what he gave up when he chose for God.
In b4 hatin: IT'S A PARABLE. Meant to be interpreted as widely as possible. Even the bible says that changing your mind is good (too bad most believers disagree).
Not that finding religion is at all equivalent to these things, but you can't just say "Old ideas bad, new ideas good".
Sure I can. As all ideas are equal in worth, being able to see the merit of other ideas makes you a fuller person.
What you've described in the last 2 sentences sounds like self delusion.
And once you realise that that is ALL WE HAVE, there you go. The meaning of Reality is what you make of it. So is the "worth" of an idea.
Yes, we all fall down, but is that good or bad? Yes, pi is about 3.14159265, but is that good or bad? Any kind of belief or value or moral or meaning is completely made up, and so are yours. Being aware that you have been delusional at some point in life, is a good thing.
MaximumZero's conversion was awesome. I also gave up after reading the bible (I never felt any kind of presence of god before then, though) although not in nearly as rigorous a fashion .
Sure, I like informed decisions, too, but I realise that many people don't think that way, and am not so delusional to think that my way of thinking is somehow better than theirs.
So yeah, basically, what I'm asking is: What does omnipotence even mean? Are DF players omnipotent in regards to DF?
(totally just finding excuses to avoid working...)
Me, too
And yeah, I believe omnipotence is like Toady: Can do everything IN our universe (multiverse, whatever), and whatever powers it has outside are never measurable (since it's outside), so they are irrelevant.