Whats your take on life? Is it in your hands or a 'higher power'? After a really long spate of bad luck my brains gone philosophical. Do you ever think some guy above the clouds is screwing with you when things don't go right? no matter how hard you work at it or do stuff?
You think you're important enough to have the laws of Physics broken, just to screw with you?..
If you were struck down by a meteorite tomorrow, the atoms in your body would have been on a collision course with that rock for 13.75 (+/- .11) billion years...
The Universe is indifferent and predetermined, get some perspective..
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Nah mate, but I'd like to think that there's a silver lining in every cloud but looking like it ain't so. Makes me wonder too why so much bad stuff happens in the world and yet it will continue to do so.
Cheers for the perspective. Makes me realize whatever I do I guess it's not gonna change anything.
...and then look up in AWE that we living organisms that represent such a tiny speck in the grand scheme of the Universe are able to look up and be aware of our place in this magnificent Universe.
Silver linings exist wherever you choose to see them. Change the way you look at things...and the things you look at change.
Does everything happen for a reason?
If you believe in the law of cause and effect I suppose you have to say yes.
Newguy,
Google AC Grayling UK philosopher, ( his latest book is called The Good Book) I love his views on religion and life in general.
Grayling's own viewpoint, as does his definition of religion which he says is “centred upon belief in the existence of supernatural agencies or entities in the universe; and not merely in their existence, but in their interest in human beings on this planet; and not merely their interest, but their particularly detailed interest in what humans wear, what they eat, when they eat it, what they read or see, what they treat as clean and unclean, who they have sex with and how and when; and so for a multitude of other things.” Later in the book, as in above, Grayling is keen to reiterate that the main principle of religion is based on the belief in the “supernatural” and therefore belongs in “the same bin,” with “notions of deities, fairies and goblins”.
I believe its all about choices.
The choice you make today affects the outcome for you and those around you tomorrow.
So if we don't have free will then we are organic machines, preprogrammed, and everything is happening for a reason.
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Personally, I like the idea that the same way we evolved from single cell organisms, technology will evolve from us and become the 7th kingdom. The Technium.
Look at the pattern, can you see what's wrong?
it's supposed to be perfect, but really it's not.
Can you find the flaws, hidden in structured code.
hiding in the pattern, in between the rows.
Now that you know that something's not right,
look at it carefully, in pale logic light.
Don't be sorry, if you can't recognize
the errors and faults, in such a perfect disguise.
Only illogics can find hidden flaws in a straight logic line
Only erratics recognize errors in patterns of a perfect design.
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This is a clip of Sam talking further about free will, he is a Neuroscientist and explains it quite well.. 4 minutes of mind=blown if anybody here thinks they are in control of their own brain..
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He's doing a quick step hoping you're not watching his feet!. He's saying that I don't decide something, the decision is made in my neuro system several moments before that. By what? It's happening in my neuro system so if it isn't me then who? God? The leprechaun on my shoulder?
Just because it isn't a conscious decision on my part to throw up an image of Ricky Gervais or whoever (his example), nevertheless nobody but me decided to throw up that image. I can't abrogate responsibility to someone else.
The little voices! They make me do things![}:)]
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) in the dark side of the moon: there is someone in my head and it is not me!
there is a common saying : sh!t happens ........... I tend to disagree.....
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sh!t does just happen , but rrrsoles usually cause it !!!