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  • “Dream” concept leaves us in total chaos without even a theoretical chance to figure out how things work.

    I disagree. There’s no reason the scientific method (observe, question, hypothesize, experiment, record data, draw conclusions) can’t be applied in dreams.

    Just because your dreams aren’t consistent or logical doesn’t mean it’s impossible to have a logically consistent dream.








  • Idol: an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

    I agree that they probably weren’t intended to be idols, but pictures of Jesus, Mary, the cross, etc are just objects of worship.

    Jesus’s message of universal love goes beyond the Christian religion, which feels like it only exists to promote itself instead of the values that Christ promoted.

    If Jesus were alive today I doubt he would care about the destruction of religious symbols. He’d probably say something like “Why are you concerned with a symbol when you have brothers and sisters who need help? If you really want to exalt God, go out and do His work.”

    Like, if people truly believe God is the alpha and omega do they really think they need to get offended on his behalf?

    Christianity has done a great job of putting God in a tiny box called “religion” and taking away all his power to the point where dinosaurs, evolution, and science are able to shake their faith.

    God/love/the universe is nonsense, and we get to spend our whole lives trying to figure that nonsense out.

    https://youtu.be/SzXn4PozUTo?si=h2-x0YJHqZzmuG7n









  • Not everyone can live a “good” life by your definition of good, but they can live a good life by their definition of good.

    Current generations realize that what older people are trying to sell them is a scam, and they’re working on building a new better reality based on their fresh perspective on what reality is.

    You can look at religion through many lenses, but at the end of the day religion is just an unprovable fiction we choose to believe because it’s how we want the world to work. My belief that if you want to live a good life you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you is religious. Game theory and my life experiences support my belief, but it is ultimately an unprovable belief because of Hume’s Guillotine and the fact that my definition of “good life” is subjective.

    It’s 100% possible that I’m just tricking myself into thinking helping other people is good and makes me happy, but I will still choose to believe.