We don’t actually have souls. But sometimes I like to play pretend.
Thought Exercise: Hypothetical for God Lovin’ Folk
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We don’t actually have souls. But sometimes I like to play pretend.
The idea of doing the right thing, even when no one is watching, is beyond some of you.
Fwiw, I love the “disappointed but not surprised” answer.
I’m fascinated with where your head went on this question. Love it. Judgy….veeeerrrryyy judgy.
No judgement, but the idea I'm going to change my morals at the last minute is simple... for lack of a better term.
If you read closely, reaaally closely, you’ll note I’m not asking you to change your moral compass. It’s merely a question of how you’d feel knowing that a big part of your moral compass was built on something that didn’t exist. I even spoon fed you an example response that said you’d not change anything because of it.
Like I said, the idea of just doing the right thing is beyond some of you. That doesn't need to be a "because he is watching" thing.If you read closely, reaaally closely, you’ll note I’m not asking you to change your moral compass. It’s merely a question of how you’d feel knowing that a big part of your moral compass was built on something that didn’t exist. I even spoon fed you an example response that said you’d not change anything because of it.
Be well 97
We appear to be two ships passing in the night. Never to connect on a substantive level regarding this topic due to an inability for the other to see what the other is trying to illuminate.
Same to you whiskey.
Let me be clear that to a non-believer like me, there's nothing wrong with what you said. But from a religious point of view, you exhibited the sins of pride (twice), and greed, and you made false claims about doing all you can to help others (nobody does all they can do to help others, if they are being honest). Not being an expert, I might have that slightly wrong, but if there is a God and Heaven and you find yourself nitpicking with St. Peter, you aren't in a good position.
Here's a thought experiment for you and my friend @Hawki97
Suppose you're offered this deal: You have go to Church for 1 hour a week and the rest of the week, you try to live the Golden Rule. In return, you get an infinite amount of bliss after you die.
Would you take that deal?
It’s my hypothetical and per my op you’ve got five minutes where you’re not dead. Instead, you learn a hypothetical reality and I’m just asking how you’d feel if that was the case. Your choice to participate.
You’re not following the rules of the OP Brian. Start your own thread if you’d like this answered. I’ll do it.
Gary: I can’t follow instructions.
Also Gary: I’m threatened when someone challenges my faith.
Also, also Gary: I’m very thin skinned.
just after christmas, i went into cardiac arrest, my wife performed CPR, police defribbed me, and then i was in the hospital for 10 days (and got a new ICD implant)
so i came pretty close to dying...and i'm sorry (or happy, depending on your perspective) to report that there wasn't anything there. nobody to meet me. no light or harp music. no eternal hellfire. just darkness.
so i came pretty close to dying...and i'm sorry (or happy, depending on your perspective) to report that there wasn't anything there. nobody to meet me. no light or harp music. no eternal hellfire. just darkness.
Threatened? You’re not challenging my faith at all. I’m just convinced you do t understand it while attempting to created a hypothetical that make zero sense.
Your faith is as strong as your ability to deal with a random internet post on a message board. Flimsy at best.
But yeah, please keep defending it to someone who doesn’t give a phuck about you or your “god.”
Or, be a man and answer the OP instead of making it about you because of your insecurity.
Sure.
I mean it's a thought experiment, so we're assuming that the outcome will be true (and that infinite bliss is a good thing).
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Now here's one for you....
You go to Heaven. What do you look like?
Do you look your best - like how you looked when you felt you looked your best. Young, healthy, slim, all your hair, whatever...?
Or maybe you look like you always wanted to look. Like the best features of the best looking movie stars?
I figure you're in Heaven. You don't want to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see an ugly face staring back at you.
The followup question is a little trickier. How do you recognize your friends and relatives in Heaven? If they look like their best selves, or like an amalgamation of their favorite movie stars, will you ever be able to spot them? And would you be comfortable seeing your Mom looking like an AI-enhanced teenage cheerleader?
We will look like radiance. Humans can shift between their new, Heavenly bodies or their old ones.
For example, you may get to meet Grandma and she changes from her Heavenly radiant body to a human form you would recognize her in.
I was thinking that we would look to ourselves the way we want to look, and look to others they way they remember us. Or something like that.
I think you'll be able to shape shift, if you get there, God willing.
Dude, God is always watching, even when you fap.
It's difficult to provide an honest assessment of what my feelings would be since it's a 0% probability in my mind.
Lulz. Redneck phuck up with nothing going for him so he has to believe in a sky fairy to make his existence seem worthwhile is so weak in his faith he gets triggered by a question on the internet. Love it. Keep 'em coming you phucking nobody!
How am I finding this out if there’s no afterlife or higher being?
But I’ll play the game as it was drawn up… when I die assuming there’s no afterlife, then who cares, I tried to be a decent person, tried to be truthful, grateful, and respectful. I lived my life the way I could explain it to God if I had to… and yet will still fall short… but I have Jesus to fill in the voids.
There is a long exchange between myself and @LuciousBDragon in this thread explaining it. It involves a silver dildo and a guy named Steve. You're free to catch up.
I'm not that interested in finding out now... I'll just stick with the rest of the answer.
No problem. I'm just here to fill in the voids for those that ask. Kinda like jesus.
I don't think Jesus was filling any voids... except maybe Mary Magdelin? I think he tapped that with his Arnold Palmer.
All I did was observe your fallacy. Which sent you into severe triggeration. Poor kiddo.
Not trying to fool anyone. The fallacy in your OP is self-apparent, except to cretins such as yourself.
Off topic of the OP and no offense, but I'm not sure how we're supposed to take any of it seriously with posts like this.
Infinite bliss is a huge deal, brah.
We're not going to be in this world for centuries...
I'd shoot Steve, and take his place.........
Plot twist- Steve has known all along that this was how his end would come. That's why he's called All-knowing Steve, and not Everlasting Steve......
Speak for your self bruv. Hawki97 atoms are going to be in this world for a lonnnnnnggggg time. I’m sprinkling them about now to spread the wealth.
