Originally posted by vanquish:[..]
Yeah, life would be pathetically futile if you ceased to exist after a few decades.
Why would anyone bother being good? If a murderer is going to end up in the same place as some good person.
Originally posted by vanquish:[..]
Yeah, life would be pathetically futile if you ceased to exist after a few decades.
Why would anyone bother being good? If a murderer is going to end up in the same place as some good person.
There is a similar religion (if it still exists) where there is no Hell. Just a Heaven. I can't remember it, I think it might be named after a person though. My goodness I'm tired
Originally posted by vanquish:Also, the other problem with God not existing (and only the physical world around us existing).
Is determinism, which basically means that no one has any control over their actions, and it is all predetermined.
Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]
*cough*Scientology*cough*
lmao, that is the only "religion" that I will ever laugh at.
Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
Oh, Scientology is fucking insane, but what I'm saying is, they all are that crazy, we're just so used to them that we don't really notice it anymore
Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]
I know... little green men coming in a spaceship is SciFi sh*t, not religion
Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
But I think you do have control. You have control over your life but once your dead, that's that
Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
Oh, Scientology is fucking insane, but what I'm saying is, they all are that crazy, we're just so used to them that we don't really notice it anymore
Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
Xenu put us all here and had a giant circle of volcanoes and exploded us all out of them with H-Bombs
I'm not saying that I necessarily am with it, but it's "religion". Originally posted by vanquish:[..]
Actually no, because if there is no 'soul', your consciousness (which determines what you think and do) is determined by all the electrical signals going around your brain.
And in turn these electrical signals are determined by the interactions of the billions of atoms and molecules that make up your brain.
Now we know from science that all these particles follow a set of rules, so that if you knew the initial state of the system, you could calculate what would happen anytime in the future.
And so it would turn out that all your thoughts (and actions) were all predetermined before you were born, when your brain was developing.
Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]
If that's what they believe, than that's what they believe. I'm not gonna be the one to tell them that they're wrong.
Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
But I never said anything about no souls, just no God. I think you're mixing up a humans' personality with higher powers that be