Quote (Fluechtlingshelferin @ Jun 2 2022 04:16am)
How is this not a contradicition? I was thinking about it and my only explanation is that the we have infinite if-else choices and after that again infinite if-else choices and that for infinity but he knows every single outcome...?!
Hey there,
I used to be very anti religion because I don’t like being told things exist without any scientific evidence. However, I have slowly come around to seeing the value of religion. I was reading some posts to see what level of sophistication people are trying to grapple with and it usually seems to center around negativity and doubt, but I think that’s because people are taking the story to be literally true.
I sum it up like this. We play video games. We play different classes. When we play different games and different classes we are fitting ourselves inside of a fake situation with a fake set of rules, but people still play it because sometimes it brings them happiness.
That’s what religion is for people. It’s a sort of role playing placebo effect which has as much of an effect on the real world as the placebo effect. Not all people are the same and some need a role to play because figuring everything out on their own is too overwhelming of a burden. I assume most nerds here can’t run 10 miles, just like some people can’t do math. And since people are born different and some find the world hard to navigate or explain, giving them a narrative to their life that all their suffering is not in vein, is somewhere along the lines of what is really going on with religion imo.
People who think they got the medicine for n a double blind trial literally get better by merely believing they are. God has to do with a placebo effect of lowering suffering and anxiety. When you experience anxiety, it’s terrible, a lot less terrible than believing the God narrative, but believing the God narrative can have a placebo like effect in lowering their suffering.
We like drugs cuz they make us feel good. Well so is religion. Religion is making people feel good like a placebo drug. Our world has advanced heavily in one direction of our mind, our logos, and we left the wisdom of our ethos and pathos behind. Religion is filling that void until something better comes along.
Just look how we treat each other. We treat each other like garbage, absolute trash. That’s because we’re surrounded by fruit born from our one direction of advancement. To advance the world, we don’t just need weapons and logos, we need compassion and morality, something I do not see being taught in school or anywhere else.
Just my two cents.