Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ...
by zedr on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:12AM
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> "God" may not be a "he" sitting "on a cloud", but may indeed just be the New Question beyond every Old Answer.
Excuse my frankness. That's not a fact. That's unfalsifiable woo-woo.
Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ...
by fit2rule on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:53AM
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Yeah, well maybe God is the sum total of everything, including your much-despised woo woo .. which, in my opinion, is the opposite of the kinds of totalitarian schools of thought that threaten our cultures, time and again.
Without the woo and whimsy and make-believe, what have we got left in our cultures? If we kill religion we may as well kill theatre and literature and all the other things which require this unmeasurable substance in order to be viable ..
Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ...
by zedr on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:14AM
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Do you believe one cannot appreciate Michelangelo, Shakespeare, or Dostoevsky without believing in a supernatural being?
Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ...
by thatswrong0 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:08AM
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That's not counter-evidence, that's just a big ol' ad hominem.
The more the human mind finds answers, the more questions it reveals - such is the nature of an infinite universe and our struggle to perceive it. If "God" doesn't exist we humans sure do spend a lot of time attempting to become one. "God" may not be a "he" sitting "on a cloud", but may indeed just be the New Question beyond every Old Answer. This fact seems to be rabidly overlooked by the Dawkins cult, which prefers to define God in its own, limited terms, in order to find fault in their chosen pariah cultures.
The jury is still out. On a scale of 1 to 7, 0.1 is just enough uncertainty to allow for yet more unanswered questions .. Dawkins, himself, has at least a little of the humility required to admit that.