Into the Question

My take on the Atheist-Theist debate, from a personal perspective.

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• agnostic
• atheist
• faith
• Rene
• Descartes
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• phaedress

[OperaPhantom91]

You had sent me an addendum over a year ago, this video attached. I'd meant to watch, but eventually forgot until tonight. I've recently been undergoing spiritual struggles, and, even though I'm still trying to comprehend all that was said, I'm already feeling that struggle coming to a close. It's as if God saved this for me until I was ready to hear it. I'm still not sure if you were meaning to help strengthen people's faithes, especially in Christ, but that's the effect this has had on me.

[phaedress]

We each speak our own truth and listen to the universe in our oun way.

Throught it all I think there runs a thread of something Other (call it Christ if you like) that we recognise in the natural world and in other people.

I wish you luck on your journey of discovery. If I may offer one piece of advice, it's:

Don't let anyone tell you what it ought to be like.

[batphilo]

how did i miss this? you look great all dressed up mama. i cant believe at one time you told me you werent funny or smart. you are both at high levels!!

[phaedress]

It is not often that one finds they've made a video response months in advance.

I'd forgotten about this, but there's quite a nice litle conversation going on in here.

Does it get you any closer to envisioning a vestigial adaptive mechanism?

(Looking into Pinker now...)

[battim]

pinker is so much fun, i dont always agree with him, but i enjoy him. well is it vestigial (not in use) or is it just there, "acting" (selecting) for no apparent reason any more but yet manifests itself in nervous system development. we have lots to learn i think.

[phaedress]

Yes, he is fun: "Is dreaming a screen-saver?"

I beleive he accepts Goedel's incompleteness theorem to apply to sentience, and as such leaves room for the ineffable, even while explaining the "how" of our behaviour in biological terms.

[phaedress]

I am less convinced when he talks about religion, as I never enjoy the iteration of a belief by non-adherents.

Still, I suppose he has to defend himself in the world at large.

[guitmartiman]

I just listened again to this, one of your most interesting monologues, in it's entirety. I would just like you to know there are many good sermons I have heard and not felt inclined to listen to more than once. But this video has held my full attention on at least three occasions so far! So, thank you for ministering to me. :o)

[MysterEy1]

OMG how did I miss tyhis one. I just made a video response to the same video.

[OperaPhantom91]

Thank you.

[guitmartiman]

I like to think God sometimes uses me in spite of myself. No false modesty intended.