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It does make sense - I was formerly a Christian myself. It is however a myth. And just food for thought. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2390774/Those-higher-intelligence-likely-believe-God-claims-new-review-63-scientific-studies-stretching-decades.html 'Graduates with IQ's over 140 aged between 38 and 50 were…

Well lets start at the very beginning - Canaanites would tell of the creation myths as inspirational stories at celebrations. This is possibly why there are two of these creation stories at the beginning of the scrptutes(Gen 1-2:3 & Gen. 2:4-3). They were placed next to each other in the cannon and meant to be read in…

Like being sincere though - I don't think there is a God. Christianity is 100% confirmed hoax -so it def would not be that God, as I had said I spent more time researching theology then I have researching anything else. I previously gave a few points making the case, but I don't think it is healthy for Christians to read…

Can you call out to existentialism/nihilism/atheism to save you when you fear you will drown? No Or will they heal your eyes or your gallbladder when the doctors suggest invasive surgery? No Will it heal your broken heart, or cleanse a guilty conscience? Yes Can your money buy these things? The healing of the broken heart…

Richard Dawkins makes the point of how we overly evolved the brain by making it grow so rapidly (compared to evolution in other areas) due to the point I brought up previously - sexual selection - in humans the brain is and has been the peacocks tail. :wink: -in regards to the enabling of our self-awareness

Still would like to here your argument against this point I made ^

What assumption? If you provide me an example I can observe myself and try to see your point.

Check out Aristotle's points on determinism! Check out Dawkins points concerning the selfish gene. Check out Liggoti's input on determinism. Even Einstein believed and understood determinism for FAQS sake. Einstein/Abraham Lincoln tons and tons and tons of thinkers and intellectuals did and do not believe in any free will.…

:noway: Responding to the personal attack isn't even worth my time. Once again I'll say *I am not depressed* - my whole idea of the importance of existentialism is to help nihilist to avoid existential depression. smh I believe my thoughts are well thought-out. 'He appears to have very little genuine or useful life…

-see I think this^ is amazing - personality is dynamic for the free-spirit, for the freeman, the ideal - a constant state of growth. And no - there are tons of things that change your life - having a gun placed to my head a few times changed me, near death experiences such as the coma, learning - just learning and…

monkey - 'a small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail, most kinds of which live in trees in tropical countries.' Has no free will, is guided strictly by its will to live, reproduce, herd instinct, survival instinct, and selfish-gene. primitive man - 'an adult human male.' Has no free will, is guided…

I'm not depressed. I see and welcome your genuine spirit - I believe you are incredibly sincere. :flowerforyou: I spent far more time exploring theology, more so intellectually, even explored all the cults and occults - there just no way I can believe in any of it - it's not real - there is almost surely no God in this…

I disagree - experience and interactions change people. Some really brief examples of this - torture - I am a different person having been tortured - if you have been tortured and I mean 'torture' torture - this changed my entire makeup. - looking back it was even healthy - very healthy - it aided a great deal in…

^which is why I said existentialism is a movement not a worldview because my worldview would be nihilism however void of the depression and sever sense of angst. 'rules of function' - provide a link or something on what the 'rules of function' are - never heard of this jargon. 'Allowing oneself to be driven by whim may be…

Well let's stay clear of the loan crisis -economics is my first love so I don't want to get on the craziest of tangents or derail this thread because I make a very valid case. And 'people tend to be really robust in their base personality' - the fact that they have a base personality - they can be put in a nice little box…

:Sits back and smiles at that mind faq: :wink:

What do you mean 'If you think that this is something that is owned by an elite, you've got a lot of learning to do about the world?' - Sincerely have no idea what you mean. 'Except the average person does have a sense of self. We are sentient creatures. We are born with it.' -well it is certainly developed, we have…

Of course it is a science! :laugh: - for sake of argument and simple respect we should just sit back and let him make the point he has been trying to get at.

It sounds paradoxical - I mean if you are taking the Bible seriously then you can certainly see through this though. At the level of the cosmos - no meaning. The average human - has no meaning, has not even contemplated meaning - they don't even think in terms of true 'self' - I want to shake them up and MAKE them…

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-a way to think of this easier is saying you are in a constant state of 'not-being' - the you - you see in the mirror isn't what makes you 'you' - it is the actions in the past, and your past history that makes you, 'you'.

^what is your point with this argument? For sake of time I'll 'concede' 'concede' 'concede' simply curious to hear what point you are getting at.

^I think many people don't think in 'I' - they don't even realize what provides identity - your past, past actions, behavioral development, experience - this is what largely dictates the choices you make in the present - doesn't mean the present or future don't matter - they are simply not the player nor decision maker. I…

Even compounding on this ^infants see through the eyes of others - 'The poet Arthur Rimbaud claimed that ‘‘I is some one Else’’ (‘‘Je est quelqu Õun dÕautre’’),suggesting that we conceive ourselves through the eyes of others. It appears indeed that by 2–3 years young children do start to have others in mind when they…

'The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by overevolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of…

You are basing your 'worldview' on experiences working in Southern California? ^sounds like your identity is heavily influenced by your career - in actuality your worldview is a Christian worldview. - certainly nothing wrong with that! - certainly not ideal IMHO either.

What are you talking about? I said it could aid for sales? and I didn't say most schools 'only award a BA' - I made the case they didn't. - may want to practice basic reading comprehension - so you can communicate like an adult.

lol jumping into the wormhole 'head' first :wink: I guess we can't say it definitively - perhaps in the multiverse there is a 'earth' or 'earth-like' planet - perhaps even the original 'earth' where this is the case :bigsmile:

-the women I'm dating primarily has a masters - and there are tons of subfields or 'focuses' in psychology you can even get a degree in. - and psychologist form theories through using empirical methods of research to find collaboration between different variables to form opinions. Also - I think you are thinking of a…

yeah I agree with you - but it just will get smaller - till we are talking quirks and leptons - then it gets even smaller - idk we can talk string theory? M-Theory - whatevs - it all points towards a stream of consciousness be it things at the subatomic level or through entanglement. Not to mention with all the parallel…