Q said if you are religious, pray. Unfortunately millions of Q followers feel they need something to hang their hat on other than the power of their own mind. They need an imaginary middleman to focus their intent. Q also championed Free Thought which is incompatible with faith:
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
And what sort of “great things” have you been able to pull off with the power of your own mind?
“Free thought” applied to the experience of my own life leads me toward belief in God. What do you think of that? Is someone’s “free thought” only correct when it agrees with yours? How dogmatic of you.
I have saved a loved one's life countless times. One time I had a feeling I should go check on her and borrowed someone's car to do it. When I got there she was collapsing onto the floor as I arrived.
I think we all have the capacity to be ultra geniuses smarter than the smartest person now alive but our intelligence is suppressed. What you think of as a guardian angel is the ghost of your higher self getting through when you really need it.
Evolution is stupid and missing the one crucial piece of evidence that proves it can even theoretically happen; spontaneous generation of new genetic information through genetic mutation, as opposed to a reshuffling of the already present information through the genetic mutation.
I'm not sure that is correct. If it is there could be a lot of things left though. I don't think it's necessarily one thing or the other. That's a very small-minded outlook.
Atheism is a philosophically destitute laughingstock.
There is no basis for the existence of anything on a philosophical or scientific level other than God.
If you think that faith and reason aren't compatible, it's because you don't know what faith means.
And the absolute irony of you saying that free thought means people should not believe in God. This thought doesn't feel very free, it feels more like I'm being railroaded into agreeing with your totally unproven philosophical presuppositions about reality.
I don't care what the communist fags who run the dictionaries say today. Give me one from a dictionary that existed pre-Marx if you want to play the "official definition" game. Preferably pre-enlightenment to see how people who had the strongest faith in God viewed the concept.
Ultimately, though, faith and reason are intrinsically linked. For example, you have faith that tomorrow you won't get hit by a meteor. You have this faith because of your ability to reason about how likely this is. But ultimately, it's possible that you could simply get wiped out by a meteor that everybody missed.
You also have faith in the fact that reality exists, and you aren't just a brain in a jar imagining everything. Or maybe you don't, but then I'd simply question your ability to reason.
Ultimately, you have faith in your philosophical presuppositions that suggest that God isn't required for the universe to exist.
We are made for faith. If you didn't have faith in anything, you wouldn't have faith that the very ground beneath your feet really exists and you would be terrified every step you took of simply falling through the Earth until you reached the center. But you don't fear that because you have faith based on evidence that the ground is solid.
The modern inversion of reality is that our senses are untrustworthy and that our mind is all we can trust. This is delusional. When you see light bending in water, your eyes are lying to you, they are showing you exactly what happens. It's your brain that is limited and unable to comprehend refraction. And our limited brain requires us to have faith because we don't have perfect knowledge and can't know things for certain based on "evidence".
How should I know if existence truly exists? We have an experience of reality that overlaps with others but varies widely. That's all I know. Our brains seem to synthesize a reality overlay based on what we think is there. That is why people believe in the mandela effect. They gloss over the details of life. Certain quirky things like the convention-breaking berenstain spelling catch them off guard because they never noticed it when they were a kid and can't believe it. I try to reduce my assumptions and simply notice what appears to be there as much as possible.
FAITH, noun [Latin fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey...
Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth. I have strong faith or no faith in the testimony of a witness, or in what a historian narrates.
Not sure if that is true. I have seen an unexpected occurrence in a remote place when I was asleep that turned out to have actually happened that night while I was asleep.
Q said if you are religious, pray. Unfortunately millions of Q followers feel they need something to hang their hat on other than the power of their own mind. They need an imaginary middleman to focus their intent. Q also championed Free Thought which is incompatible with faith:
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
And what sort of “great things” have you been able to pull off with the power of your own mind?
“Free thought” applied to the experience of my own life leads me toward belief in God. What do you think of that? Is someone’s “free thought” only correct when it agrees with yours? How dogmatic of you.
I have saved a loved one's life countless times. One time I had a feeling I should go check on her and borrowed someone's car to do it. When I got there she was collapsing onto the floor as I arrived.
That's your Guardian Angel nudging you. Everyone has one. Even atheists.
I think we all have the capacity to be ultra geniuses smarter than the smartest person now alive but our intelligence is suppressed. What you think of as a guardian angel is the ghost of your higher self getting through when you really need it.
So, what sort of power is on display here? Just a sensory thing or what?
I think I have intuitive knowledge that may sometimes extend beyond the five senses. The "dream" I mentioned in reply to Munchausen is an example.
Can you outline how logic, reason, and empirical observation without authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma led you to your belief?
I can, but it’s way too personal to do it for you. Call it a cop-out but I’m not doxxing myself.
To be brief:
Evolution is stupid and missing the one crucial piece of evidence that proves it can even theoretically happen; spontaneous generation of new genetic information through genetic mutation, as opposed to a reshuffling of the already present information through the genetic mutation.
What is left when thing one is out the window?
I'm not sure that is correct. If it is there could be a lot of things left though. I don't think it's necessarily one thing or the other. That's a very small-minded outlook.
Atheism is a philosophically destitute laughingstock.
There is no basis for the existence of anything on a philosophical or scientific level other than God.
If you think that faith and reason aren't compatible, it's because you don't know what faith means.
And the absolute irony of you saying that free thought means people should not believe in God. This thought doesn't feel very free, it feels more like I'm being railroaded into agreeing with your totally unproven philosophical presuppositions about reality.
If you had evidence with which to reason you would not need faith.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faith faith almost always implies certitude even where there is no evidence or proof. an unshakable faith in God
I don't care what the communist fags who run the dictionaries say today. Give me one from a dictionary that existed pre-Marx if you want to play the "official definition" game. Preferably pre-enlightenment to see how people who had the strongest faith in God viewed the concept.
Ultimately, though, faith and reason are intrinsically linked. For example, you have faith that tomorrow you won't get hit by a meteor. You have this faith because of your ability to reason about how likely this is. But ultimately, it's possible that you could simply get wiped out by a meteor that everybody missed.
You also have faith in the fact that reality exists, and you aren't just a brain in a jar imagining everything. Or maybe you don't, but then I'd simply question your ability to reason.
Ultimately, you have faith in your philosophical presuppositions that suggest that God isn't required for the universe to exist.
We are made for faith. If you didn't have faith in anything, you wouldn't have faith that the very ground beneath your feet really exists and you would be terrified every step you took of simply falling through the Earth until you reached the center. But you don't fear that because you have faith based on evidence that the ground is solid.
The modern inversion of reality is that our senses are untrustworthy and that our mind is all we can trust. This is delusional. When you see light bending in water, your eyes are lying to you, they are showing you exactly what happens. It's your brain that is limited and unable to comprehend refraction. And our limited brain requires us to have faith because we don't have perfect knowledge and can't know things for certain based on "evidence".
How should I know if existence truly exists? We have an experience of reality that overlaps with others but varies widely. That's all I know. Our brains seem to synthesize a reality overlay based on what we think is there. That is why people believe in the mandela effect. They gloss over the details of life. Certain quirky things like the convention-breaking berenstain spelling catch them off guard because they never noticed it when they were a kid and can't believe it. I try to reduce my assumptions and simply notice what appears to be there as much as possible.
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/faith
FAITH, noun [Latin fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey...
Mind power, outside of thinking, would require the addition of new physical laws. Sorry.
Not sure if that is true. I have seen an unexpected occurrence in a remote place when I was asleep that turned out to have actually happened that night while I was asleep.
Sounds like proof of God to me.
Maybe you don't see it that way, but why do you discount people who might have similar experiences lead them to God as being unreasonable?