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  1. Sir Doom

    Questions for Atheists and Agnostics

    I don't really think of it that way. There are no obvious places to look. One is as good as another. My answer need not be everyone's answer, after all. It's what God is getting from me, like it or not. That's possible, but I think its more likely God isn't interested in communicating that...
  2. Sir Doom

    Is reality brutely indifferent to life? Or

    I would say it's the other way around. Life is brutally indifferent to reality. Life is the only thing in reality capable of brutality or indifference. Depending on what counts as life, of course.
  3. Sir Doom

    Is there Any Such Thing as a Perfectly Wise Moral Code?

    I'll go with no. I think time is too large of a factor on decision making. We humans enjoy speaking of morality in hypotheticals for hours on end but when it is time to act, we rarely have the time to think so objectively. Its often only after the fact when we are literally dealing with the...
  4. Sir Doom

    Questions for Atheists and Agnostics

    I have looked into lots of things far too numerous to list here. I've heard countless people speak on God's behalf and every last one has had a personal agenda, not least of which is 'feeling right'. I don't expect that will ever change either. I assume either God wants it that way or doesn't...
  5. Sir Doom

    Questions for Atheists and Agnostics

    I didn't say anything like that, nor do I believe anything like that. I have yet to see anything to convince me that anyone has been, is or will ever be a prophet of God. If it was God's intention to reveal itself to the entirety of humanity with the express purpose of convincing all of us at...
  6. Sir Doom

    Questions for Atheists and Agnostics

    There are reasons to believe it, but nothing I consider compelling. God seems keen to stay in mystery as far as I can tell. Buy an advertising slot during the Superbowl and make a hilarious video. Plenty of things would work assuming the being is, in fact, God. He could arrive riding a...
  7. Sir Doom

    Deity sends you to Hell, or do you choose?

    I think it's kind of funny that Hell is being dismissed as 'pagan' but Hades (named for the Greek god who ruled the place of the same name or vice versa) is somehow okay as a substitute. Unless we are using the ancient usage of 'pagan' which is how aristocratic Romans referred to lesser gods...
  8. Sir Doom

    Self as a Force vs a Form of Matter

    When I say emergent property, I mean something that is produced by the combination of 'other somethings' that couldn't really be predicted by the 'other some things ' previous properties.
  9. Sir Doom

    The Purple Dragon

    Something designed as fiction is pretty easy to call unreal. God's got a bit more baggage. FSM has nearly as much, but again... Designed as fiction. I am agnostic about god in general, but if you start listing gods to see if I believe in this one or that I'm going to start looking very...
  10. Sir Doom

    The Purple Dragon

    Technically, yeah. I think there is such a thing as pseudo-agnostic when a person is just refusing to take a stance for whatever alternate motive they may have. But when I say agnostic I mean "I don't really know so I'm not going to pretend to". I can give you a tentative answer if 'the chips...
  11. Sir Doom

    The Purple Dragon

    They are mammals in some stories >.>
  12. Sir Doom

    Self as a Force vs a Form of Matter

    My apologies, but that is even harder to grasp. You are stating that an emergent property of matter/energy is on the same level as that which it emerged from. That's making my logic alarm go off.
  13. Sir Doom

    The Purple Dragon

    Not me, no. I mean, if someone came across this video 1000 years from now without the same frame of reference that I have, I suppose I could understand someone taking an agnostic position. I'm not really capable of that since I am aware that it was intended as fiction. I am agnostic on the...
  14. Sir Doom

    The Purple Dragon

    If I am to take Disney, and Disney alone as evidence then the answer is no. Disney is no authority on anything. Their opinion means as much as mine, less in fact, as the work is intended as fiction. I will say purple dragons do exist for various other reasons which have everything to do with...
  15. Sir Doom

    Self as a Force vs a Form of Matter

    Okay, I am no physicist (theoretic or otherwise) but I'm pretty sure there are four fundamental forces. Gravitational Force Electromagnetic Force Strong Nuclear Force Weak Nuclear Force These four forces to one degree or another are responsible for every phenomenon we've perceived so far...
  16. Sir Doom

    Do You Favor Belief Over Knowledge and Curiosity?

    Lol, I wouldn't start counting chickens just yet.
  17. Sir Doom

    Do You Favor Belief Over Knowledge and Curiosity?

    Because, as I've said, I'm convinced it's true. That is the difference between knowledge and belief. Conviction. As stated. I would still stick by the principle that I never really knew it to begin with. Just like right now. Did you miss that part? As I said. Proof is even less realistic...
  18. Sir Doom

    Do You Favor Belief Over Knowledge and Curiosity?

    Proof is even less realistic than knowledge, but if you mean scientific proof then I would submit that it is well known that our brain is capable of 'filling in the gaps' of our vision. This is why 3 sometimes seems to be 8. They look very similar and our brain regularly fudges the details in...
  19. Sir Doom

    Theists - are god(s) interested in you?

    I'm not exactly a theist, but if there is a God, I must assume it is interested in me personally. It seems obvious from my perspective. I consider this interest to be wholly individual meaning that God doesn't take much interest in the rest of you by comparison. This may seem like rampant...
  20. Sir Doom

    Two questions -- I'll explain soon

    $5 Mostly agnostic. I have faith in humans, though. Not quite the same as faith in a deity.
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