davewhite04
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How do you know it's a delusion?Their delusion is not my concern...
...until they use it to oppress others...
...which they invariably do.
How do you know it's a delusion?Their delusion is not my concern...
...until they use it to oppress others...
...which they invariably do.
By the way the deluded persons behave: repeating the same action again and again, expecting a different outcome.How do you know it's a delusion?
Your swaying into religion! There are many believers who believe in God and are not religious.By the way the deluded persons behave: repeating the same action again and again, expecting a different outcome.
However, that is a far less destructive group than those who only pretend to believe. Their actions are neither internally consistent nor very often in accord with the beliefs they profess.
Religion is the belief in a god or gods - specifically a supernatural being, or beings, or entity, or power, that controls things beyond what humanity can control.Your swaying into religion! There are many believers who believe in God and are not religious.
Name three.There are many believers who believe in God and are not religious.
Demonstrate there is a god.How do you know it's a delusion?
Demonstrate there is a god.
As long as a god possesses sentient intelligence (Intelligent Design, Genesis) the probability for such a complex being is highly unlikely.Yes. God as an abstract concept is a very slim possibility, but Jehovah is certainly nonsense.
Do you mean you can believe in God and not _practice_ a specific religion? Definitely true.
Equations don't guide natural events, they are symbolic descriptions of natural events.OTOH, a mathematical interactive system (physics) offers a very high probability of acting as universal guiding equations.
Of course, they are human symbolic descriptions of naturally occurring events.Equations don't guide natural events, they are symbolic descriptions of natural events.
https://weather.com/science/news/sun-and-thermonuclear-explosion-how-theyre-alike-20131016The sun’s energy engine is essentially a perpetual thermonuclear explosion, just on a much larger scale. Just to give you a bit of perspective, the Tsar Bomba released about 2.1x1017 Joules of energy, while the Earth receives about 1.7x1017 Joules of energy from the sun in a second. So it’s safe to say the sun’s energy output dwarfs even the largest thermonuclear bomb detonations.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...-boson-was-found-4723520/#jloHbUgSlFFD7Jpz.99Science in general, and physics in particular, seek patterns. Stretch a spring twice as far, and feel twice the resistance. A pattern. Increase the volume an object occupies while keeping its mass fixed, and the higher it floats in water. A pattern. By carefully observing patterns, researchers uncover physical laws that can be expressed in the language of mathematical equations.
Serious question. Do you know what religious means?Non-membership in a particular church does not make one non-religious, any more than running as an independent makes one non-political.
Serious answer: Yes. In depth and breadth. From the earliest forms of animism, fetishes, totems and ancestor shrines, to modern, proselytizing televangalism.Serious question. Do you know what religious means?