The idea of an #omniscient #god completely obliterates the idea of human free will. #ThinkAboutIt
@tomcapuder Applied to any coercive religion, I’ve said for decades that you can’t be accurately judged by anyone if being good is based on Divine Retribution threatening your afterlife status. We have to see how you act without the leveled threats. This is different than acting based on your inner moral compass, doing good deeds just because “You” want to. 🤔 Btw, I’m Agnostic, I don’t rule out the possibility of something more after… just don’t know what that might be. 🙂
@tomcapuder it’s impossible to explain, I sense? hope? desire? there is something more, just don’t ask what. 😊 I want purpose, and meaning. Without it, your life means nothing. Base it on the idea that rising from nothing is a 1 time event along an infinite time line, would make non-existence the norm, and would make the accomplishments of this life a complete waste of time. Might as well get back to my non-existence. Why care what you did or accomplish?🤔 🙃
We exist because we exist. That's life. We make our own meaning. When I finally realized no #god or #afterlife exists, life became more—not less—precious.
Since non-existence is the norm, we should make the most of our few decades of existence. Because that's all we have.
@tomcapuder My position is that if in the end we’re all not existing, there is no point, incapable of remembrance, oblivious. Not trying to sound morbid, just following a chain of logic. 🙂 Regarding free will,I believe based on our individual natures, and biological programming, we have little in the way of choice. Carrots or peas example. If you avoid what you don’t like, should this be called a choice? It’s more of a preference, not neutral free will.
Humans are biological creatures, doing what all biological creatures do—eating, sleeping, procreating, surviving. I don't think asking for a purpose is logical. Understandable, yes.
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
—Erich Fromm
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I'm agnostic, too. Neither of us can *know* whether a #god exists. If you don't hold a *belief* that one does, you are an atheist.
We can't *not* act based on our inner moral compass, which I think evolved in our thinking social species for its survival benefit. "Do unto others" makes evolutionary sense and long pre-dates religions.