amicus
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The OP's question was not serious, nor would an accolmpanying thought, 'belief is a win, win, so why not?'
Both thoughts would be wrong and are dangerous.
Warning: serious commentary about to be offered...that might scare the fecal matter and lube right out of you, so keep the women and the kiddies away.
Therer is no God.
Humans learn about existence, our world, our universe, in one way and one way only.
Wehn a new particle zips through a chamber in a billionth of a second from some accelerometer in Lucerne, Switzerland, we know of its existence by the trail it leaves thorugh a purposely manufactured atmosphere with very high speed camera and timing by an atomic clock.
Knowledge is acquired when the human mind perceives evidence that something, somewhere is happening.
There is no evidence to support the existence of any supernatural being from gods, to devils and demons, fairies, nymphs, satyrs, boogie men, santa claus or the easter bunny.
Sorry folks...thas life. Well, grown up, mature life.
That is the easy part, the non scary part, the part that even a semi rational teen aged person, well, male person, could, with some modest effort, understand.
For all the retarded thinkers here, merc, babyshit, et al, who insist they must pu t their hands in poo, smell it and taste it before they will admit it exists; this is just an exercise in futility for you. But, just for the hell of it, see if you can follow along.
As the OP stated, what if you are an atheist or an agnostic and your are wrong?
Even to ask that question implies psychological harm to an individuals thinking process as it introduces fear into the equation concerning acquiring knowledge.
Like the Astronomer burned at the stake by the Catholics because he dared think outside the jesus box. Now he had reason t o experience fear as he thought his heretical thoughts...you do not.
There is no god, you should have no fear of the consequences of learning that fact.
Secondly, and more importantly, for those who are true believers and the agnostics among you, or the 'win/win' bet, nothing to lose if you believe...well, this is where I come into the picture.
I postulated at the beginning, that the human mind acquires knowledge in only one way. This statement is fact, not because I type it, but as a result of centuries of research by the best minds in science who 'learned' how the human brain, the mind functions.
Through our senses, there are only five, we perceive aspects of reality and begin the thought process of cataloging and collating and combining those percentions into groups of thought, called conccepts, and the mind thus begins to acquire an understanding of the reality surrounding him.
It is especially important to know that one cannot offer the mind a contradiction, such as a thing is and is not at the same time. The mind will rebel and place the contradiction over in a dark corner to be dealt with at another time.
This is where the danger lies, waiting to turn your contradictions into disabilities, mental illness, if you persist in trying to force the mind to accept contradictions. Such as those between faith and knowledge, you know, and like Hal 9000, it drove him crazy.
There are a ton of contradictions you folks express here, you would never kill a human child, yet you approve of others doing so as a legitimate 'choice'. There is never a choice to kill an innocent human being and even guilty ones, only through due process.
In your subjective and relativistic life where everything is fluid and nothing remains stable or universal, you are constantly faced with numerous contradictions as your senses observe the continual continuity and congruity of nature and the reality you ignore.
That is why you wake up screaming at night, pop the pills and swill the booze, to escape the hell yoi have created in your own mind.
Lastly, to believe in a power greater than yourself, is to sacrifice your individual existence and independence to the whims of those who claim to have access to this god or his rules and regulations, by which you must live to attain immortality.
actually does its work, it destroys you, you are reborn as part of the pack and may never find yourself ever again.
I quote no one, I researched nothing, these are my thoughts that arose as I became a man and now an old man.
Told you, some serious poo was coming...
Amicus
Both thoughts would be wrong and are dangerous.
Warning: serious commentary about to be offered...that might scare the fecal matter and lube right out of you, so keep the women and the kiddies away.
Therer is no God.
Humans learn about existence, our world, our universe, in one way and one way only.
Wehn a new particle zips through a chamber in a billionth of a second from some accelerometer in Lucerne, Switzerland, we know of its existence by the trail it leaves thorugh a purposely manufactured atmosphere with very high speed camera and timing by an atomic clock.
Knowledge is acquired when the human mind perceives evidence that something, somewhere is happening.
There is no evidence to support the existence of any supernatural being from gods, to devils and demons, fairies, nymphs, satyrs, boogie men, santa claus or the easter bunny.
Sorry folks...thas life. Well, grown up, mature life.
That is the easy part, the non scary part, the part that even a semi rational teen aged person, well, male person, could, with some modest effort, understand.
For all the retarded thinkers here, merc, babyshit, et al, who insist they must pu t their hands in poo, smell it and taste it before they will admit it exists; this is just an exercise in futility for you. But, just for the hell of it, see if you can follow along.
As the OP stated, what if you are an atheist or an agnostic and your are wrong?
Even to ask that question implies psychological harm to an individuals thinking process as it introduces fear into the equation concerning acquiring knowledge.
Like the Astronomer burned at the stake by the Catholics because he dared think outside the jesus box. Now he had reason t o experience fear as he thought his heretical thoughts...you do not.
There is no god, you should have no fear of the consequences of learning that fact.
Secondly, and more importantly, for those who are true believers and the agnostics among you, or the 'win/win' bet, nothing to lose if you believe...well, this is where I come into the picture.
I postulated at the beginning, that the human mind acquires knowledge in only one way. This statement is fact, not because I type it, but as a result of centuries of research by the best minds in science who 'learned' how the human brain, the mind functions.
Through our senses, there are only five, we perceive aspects of reality and begin the thought process of cataloging and collating and combining those percentions into groups of thought, called conccepts, and the mind thus begins to acquire an understanding of the reality surrounding him.
It is especially important to know that one cannot offer the mind a contradiction, such as a thing is and is not at the same time. The mind will rebel and place the contradiction over in a dark corner to be dealt with at another time.
This is where the danger lies, waiting to turn your contradictions into disabilities, mental illness, if you persist in trying to force the mind to accept contradictions. Such as those between faith and knowledge, you know, and like Hal 9000, it drove him crazy.
There are a ton of contradictions you folks express here, you would never kill a human child, yet you approve of others doing so as a legitimate 'choice'. There is never a choice to kill an innocent human being and even guilty ones, only through due process.
In your subjective and relativistic life where everything is fluid and nothing remains stable or universal, you are constantly faced with numerous contradictions as your senses observe the continual continuity and congruity of nature and the reality you ignore.
That is why you wake up screaming at night, pop the pills and swill the booze, to escape the hell yoi have created in your own mind.
Lastly, to believe in a power greater than yourself, is to sacrifice your individual existence and independence to the whims of those who claim to have access to this god or his rules and regulations, by which you must live to attain immortality.
actually does its work, it destroys you, you are reborn as part of the pack and may never find yourself ever again.
I quote no one, I researched nothing, these are my thoughts that arose as I became a man and now an old man.
Told you, some serious poo was coming...
Amicus
