Vlog #1 - Intellectual Placebos and Dithering

I attempt to make a video log without knowing what I'm doing! Huzzah!

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• religion
• philosophy
• bad humor

[effyleven]

Boring.... (yawn)

[ScoloCentipede]

Also duly noted. :D

[AronRa]

How ironic that you have a halo in this video.

[Hakazaba]

Then why add a god?

[ScoloCentipede]

Duly noted. :)

[FedorCroCop44]

loser

[ScoloCentipede]

To provide an "external" (as far as the existentialist crisis is concerned) reason for existence--a comfort blanket, if you will. After all, the faith is by definition irrational, though it may be taken for a rational reason. At that point the "why" would depend on any given believer.

There's no reason that gods have to be lawgivers and judges; that's just what we're used to because such Abrahamic gods have dominated our cultural history (at least in the West).

[ScoloCentipede]

Let's say there is a religion that believes in a God as a prime mover and is dedicated towards introspection, personal truth, and community service. It has a series of rituals that foster a sense of community but don't necessarily have any sort of greater "meaning." Meditation and introspection are encouraged and, if that introspection leads to disagreements with the religion, that's fine--go your way in peace. Above all it would have to assert that it is not The Truth, just an attempt at it.

[Hakazaba]

Thats an interesting statement considering we are here right now questioning ourselves and ideals.

Have you ever seen a religion that doesn't claim absolute truth?

Buddhism seems to be the best example to me, but they still have a predefined set of absolute ideals.

How could they be?

I genuinely don't understand how, Give an example on a religion like that, even one that dose not exist.

I can't.

[ScoloCentipede]

One can argue that all of Western society is a large group of people who believe in the same superstitions of freedom of speech and conscience, which are ideals we have created rather than anything "real."

While the reluctance is generally true, it doesn't have to be. While religions generally claim absolute truth, they don't have to. While religions generally ignore or suppress disagreement, they don't have to.

What they _are_ is not what they _could be_, my thinking goes, and that's sad.

[Hakazaba]

How does it not have to?

Since religion is just a large group of people who believe the same superstition and are very reluctant to question the ideals set down by that , then it must slow down such progress as it becomes more difficult to change existing societal constraints.