So, something rare happened...

[Hexadecimal]

...my internal dialogue shut off long enough for my eyes to see. Man...there's a lot of shit going on in this world. No wonder people come to the conclusion of a divine ruler God more often than a pantheist view. It's fucking frightening to just sit back and look carefully at everything going on. Since I started typing this, several hundred people were born, several hundred died...shit.

That's all folks.

[Ressotami]

That's some fly agaric shit.

[Hexadecimal]

Nah, that's some sober Adam Hansen shit right there.

[Hare_Geist]

So people are born and die everyday... that would make people believe in a personal god because?...

[The Humble Noob]

man, we're on a floating rock in the middle of billions upon billions of miles of nothing, that's apparently constantly expanding and getting bigger and more infinite every second.

it's so damn hard to care about anything.

[---Beany---]

quote:Originally posted by Hare_Geist:

So people are born and die everyday... that would make people believe in a personal god because?...

I don't believe it was actually a pro God argument.

[Hare_Geist]

quote:Originally posted by ---Beany---:

I don't believe it was actually a pro God argument.

No, but I'm asking why people would come to the conclusion of a personal God based on that.

[Q777]

We are on a little rock spinning at 0.5 km/sec orbiting a gait ball of fire at 30 km/sec that's orbiting a bunch of scary stuff in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at 250 km/sec all at the same time as our Milky Way Galaxy is moving in the Local Group of galaxies at 300 km/sec with with a collision course with another galaxy.

[kurdt318]

omg first time i smoked weed it was amazingly religious. I lost of all sense of being "human" and felt so animal, so alive, and so aware of the world around me. What was dying, what was living, and what was just existing. It completely eradicated the idea of a "God" in my mind.

[Hexadecimal]

quote:Originally posted by Hare_Geist:

No, but I'm asking why people would come to the conclusion of a personal God based on that.

There's just so much going on. It's overwhelming. Seriously; take a moment and picture in your head all the car accidents happening, the decapitations from rollovers, the rapes, murders, genocides, wars, famines, plagues, lies; the births, marriages, kisses, hugs, songs, musics, dances, the nervous stares of shy guys and pretty girls...it's fucking overwhelming to seriously picture all that shit in your head without the additional thought of a controlling figure. Our minds don't do too well resting on the premise of 'shit happens' when we open our eyes and see just how much shit is happening.

Even taking scientific theory into it, that just adds more into the fray of shit that is happening - string theory down to simple shit like 'what goes up must come down'...there is too much going on for us to comprehend without going into some state of mind-fuck.

This isn't an argument for God, by the way, simply an observation of mine.