Would you change if...?

[smokydot]

So what would you do if the Earth did not exist or you did not exist? Perhaps you are just a computer program in a giant video game? Perhaps all that exists is your mind and everything else is illusion?
It's fairly obvious that god is a major part in your life, but this is only a thought experiment. What would you do if that part of your life was proven beyond any doubt (including yours) that it did not exist?

I'm not good at this. . .I'm too nailed down in reality.

The abolutely hardest part would be losing a closeness and intimacy that can be had with no one else on earth.
My life would be so much smaller.
My spiritual provision would dry up. . .I would be in a spiritual wasteland. . .comfortless, like Jesus on the cross. . .forsaken. . .abandoned.
Praise God, I don't have to fear about that.

You asked!

 

[smokydot]

So the scriptures are true because the scriptures say they're true? Circular logic as a defense mechanism is so adorable. Makes me want to pinch the little automatons right on their cheeks.

Now that's funny!

But the truth of the Scriptures is a matter of faith, not of logic.
I believe them, you don't.
We probably should leave that right there, don't you think?

 

[smokydot]

Speaking as a theist, I don't think I'd compare the existence of God with the existence of the earth.
I fully admit that there is no evidence for the existence of God.

You don't think the origin of matter, the origin of the universe, or the immutable laws of physics and math are at least evidence for the existence of God?

 

[Father Heathen]

Now that's funny!

But the truth of the Scriptures is a matter of faith, not of logic.
I believe them, you don't.
We probably should leave that right there, don't you think?

So why would that prevent you from answering a fictional scenario honestly?

 

[smokydot]

So why would that prevent you from answering a fictional scenario honestly?

I did. . .in post #41.

 

[Erebus]

You asked!

And you answered honestly, that's all the OP was after

 

[Riverwolf]

You don't think the origin of matter, the origin of the universe, or the immutable laws of physics and math are at least evidence for the existence of God?

Nope.

 

[Father Heathen]

I did. . .in post #41.

Okay, I must've missed that. Sorry. But anyway, you don't believe that the love of friends and family would be able to feel that void?

 

[smokydot]

Okay, I must've missed that. Sorry. But anyway, you don't believe that the love of friends and family would be able to feel that void?

I didn't even know there was a void, until I was born again, and a whole new place opened up in me.
Until then, I had no void. This new place in me was quite a revelation.
But now that it has been opened and then filled, it would be a tragedy of the worst order to lose what I now have.

 

[smokydot]

Nope.

You're a tough one to crack.

 

[TurkeyOnRye]

Does your own answer to the perfectly reasonable question frighten you?

There are plenty of things that frighten me, but a reasonable answer that I can't even think of to an unreasonable question is not one.

 

[Riverwolf]

You're a tough one to crack.

Well, I AM an advaitin. ^_^