> if "a billion people" say it's true, it must be true.
Religion is a great example of this. I have yet to see proof of a god.
Religion is a great example of this. I have yet to see proof of a god.
I have yet to see a demonstration of divine intervention.
He was told growing up that he didn't have to believe, but he absolutely wasn't allowed to be derisive of his own mother and her beliefs -- or anyone else's, for that matter.
We were homeless for years and had quite a few bizarre experiences that could be interpreted as "miracles" or "divine intervention" if one is inclined that way. He occasionally would comment on that fact and observe that his belief system was being tested or mocked by life, then follow that observation with remarks about laws of large numbers and that really bizarre coincidences were bound to happen at times to someone.
People in both camps tend to see what they already believe in, kind of like the observation in The Sixth Sense about dead people only seeing what they want to see.
Please understand that I'm absolutely not suggesting you are wrong. I'm only suggesting that the status of being a believer or non believer seems to be self reinforcing.
Believers and non believers can experience the exact same thing and can both conclude at the end of the day that their current beliefs have been verified -- or at least not overturned.
(My position is that it's a simulation in 4D and the actual answer neither matters nor can be proven one way or the other.
I think people should be free to believe what they believe in that regard. I also think they should, ideally, respect the right of others to do the same.)
Your observation gets run through my current set of beliefs and just reinforces my already existing opinion that, seriously, "Live and let live" is the best policy for such things. ;)
Who or what created the universe?
Don't say "big bang" because something needed to create that.
We don't yet have answers to every question.
There are blind people. There are deaf people.
Failure by one person to sense a thing others sense isn't actually evidence it isn't real.
I long ago decided this is probably the best explanation for the divide between those who believe in some kind of God or spiritual force and those who think that's clearly Hokum.
Edited for typos, possibly due to autocorrect, aka autocorrupt, the bane of my online communication efforts.
I'm saying different people have different perceptions (which includes mental models or thought processes) and relate differently to reality around them. It's usually a pretty pointless thing to argue about. Both sides are generally pretty adamant about their views, a la The elephant and the six blind men.