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Originally Posted by Cheese
This "almost" sounds spiritual.
In response to both you and photon. Our minds are programmed and hard wired from youth. Part of that programming is the entire theology question, or non-question. As we move along in life we either fully accept this choice, using one or more of Daniel Dennett's eight plausible reasons <see previous post #208>, or we simply begin to question the theories and toss out anything that doesn't make sense. (This usually takes years). My thoughts were typical to both you and photon during these years of question and dismissal...I continued to believe that if the God of the Bible was false; there must be something else. Faith in "something" is ingrained into our systems.
I think that after awhile you begin to understand that the faith we put into any religion/spirituality is misdirected, and you begin to transfer that faith into yourself first, then your fellow human. You see others for what they are, not for their beliefs. Its clarity in its simplest forms.
That redirection of faith is where both of you are at right now.
Wow what a babble LOL  |
Heh, that does sound spiritual.
Spiritual is a nebulous word and I don't like to use it.
I agree that our minds are built to believe, to have faith. We couldn't survive otherwise; we can't go through the process of questioning every cause and effect and rebuilding our reality from first principles every time we hear a noise we don't recognize. Our brains are evolved to do the minimum amount possible to accomplish the goal of survival, and that includes attributing causes to things even if we don't actually know the cause.
Anyway, another reason a flavour of pantheism appeals to me because reality itself is the target of faith. Well maybe not faith, but hope. Hope for the future which I'm not going to get to see, for my fellow humans, for our understanding of it all.