However good an explanation that might seem, it holds no water unless there is good evidence that it is true. The actual case might be something quite different altogether.
What is your evidence?
Argument from ignorance is unimpressive. So is inventing an imaginary friend to plug the gap.
Your rhetoric could easily be reworded to show your god as unbelievable.
In QM, virtual means having fleeting existence, not lacking reality. Virtual particles are as physical as any others.
I find it despicable when mystical types hijack scientific terms to promote their woo.
I agree about puritanism.
So far as the idea of sin is different from that of crime, I think it is a ploy by clerics to grab power by making people feel guilty. Have you noticed that sins tend to be natural desires that need not be harmful?
Scripture is a tool that villains use to hoodwink the gullible, the vulnerable, the stupid etc.
That would at least be more difficult without the imagined authority of scripture.
There must have been an awful lot of undeserving people caught up in the recent hurricanes, tsunamis etc.Just a few moments of reflection should show that what you say is untrue. Bad things do happen to good people all the time and bad ones go unpunished.
Sure, things are connected. Ever heard of gravity?
I don't buy this mystical connectedness, though. Can you show evidence?
Things respond due to the properties of the universe, especially forces such as gravity, electromagnetism etc. There is no need for your primitive animism in these times...
Even if consciousness is a state rather than a process, which I dispute, it is still not a substance, so your question about a boundary between it and the universe is still just word salad, like most mystical pronouncements.
So your navel-gazing produces this interesting experience. So what? You have still not shown that it is not just all in your own head, that it is not some strange quirk of human psychology.
I don't care what the mystic sees. It is what the mystic can demonstrate to be the case that matters.
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