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TopicDid Satan give humanity free will/consciousness?
GEKGanon
05/24/23 10:46:37 PM
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OhhhJa posted...
Unless, of course, your consciousness isnt what you perceive it to be. It's natural to believe that your consciousness is simply you, an individual, completely separate from the rest of the matter around you. For all we know, your mind could be the only really consciousness and everything you perceive to be someone else is just an illusion. Perhaps we're just the universe dreaming and none of us are real. We exist seemingly in a sea of information without the faintest clue of why or how any of this exists in the first place. I think it's somewhat shortsighted to definitively assert that there is no god/being/phenomenon beyond our universe or if this universe is even "real" in the first place even if that god or being doesn't give a shit about us

You're right that none of this affects our day to day lives and we can live and die without ever knowing the answers and it would have zero impact on us (which is why i dont really think about this stuff much). But that doesn't mean there isn't something beyond this plane of existence nor does it prove atheists are correct.

I think atheists often think from a purely scientific perspective but until science has ALL the answers i think it's fair to consider applying philosophy. And I'm not dumping on science. I'm actually really into astrophysics. Really, I'd say my interest in astrophysics has been the catalyst for my views on this topic. I'm sure this sounds like pretentious hippie talk to some people but it's just stuff I've thought about in my free time.

I think you missed the point. If something isn't measurable, it doesn't matter if it is there or not. If I told you there was goblin in your house, but you can't see it, hear it, feel it, touch it, smell it, taste it, or measure it in anyway whatsoever, and its presence can't be felt or known, and it has no capacity to interact with or effect anything around it, then it doesn't matter if the goblin is there, because the end result is the same as the goblin not being there.

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