Author Topic: What are your beliefs  (Read 3932 times)

but in the end
it doesn't even matter


same thing with morality too
A sense of morality can be explained by natural selection as I posted in your previous thread
having a sense of morality that tells you to behave in a way that is cooperative with other individuals (good) is much more conducive to the survival of a species than, say, killing everyone.
Simply put: species that killed each other died off, leaving only those that don't kill each other.

we are only able to cure debilitating diseases by aborting babies to harvest their stem cells for research
I don't know about the former part of this statement, but stem cells come from more than aborted babies


supernatural things supported by their religion firsthand.
When I hear "supernatural" I hear "extreme coincidence"
Say an event has a one in a million chance of happening to someone.
With about 7 billion people on Earth, that event will have to 700 of them.
All it takes is one of them to claim "this happened because I prayed for it" and suddenly "woosh supernatural event"

personally im not afraid of death. im anticipating it. i really want to know what happens in the end and theres only one way to find out.

I think for some that's a legitimate theory for why people report seeing a bright light, or a tunnel with a bright light at the end of it, compared to the idea that you're seeing the afterlife.
some scientists agree with the theory that the reason people report seeing god or the light during near-death experiences is because of the large amounts of dmt your brain administers during those intense moments of life (possibly as a defense mechanism)

granted it seems dmt is a mystery, since no one can really agree where the dmt in your system actually comes from (some say from the pineal gland, from the lungs (prevalent tryptamine-N-methyltransferase), from non-neural tissues, in your cerebrospinal fluid, or even intestinal bacteria)

i personally like to believe this theory just because of how fascinating it is that the body could do that
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i jizz all over the floor and divine the future from the way it sets

i can't comprehend what happens after death
actually, more like i can't comprehend "consciousness" after death
if there is a heaven and hell, then so be it
but being without a consciousness? you're not aware, it's just nothing
it's not even nothing, because nothing is something-

stuff i'm starting it again

although i strongly believe in reincarnation/consciousness memory wipe, at this point it's the only logical explanation for me

i believe that when i die anime girls will be all around me...

no but srsly christianity is for fat zimbabweans

personally im not afraid of death. im anticipating it. i really want to know what happens in the end and theres only one way to find out.
lol thats a good way to look at it

i don't really care about religion, i focus on bettering myself as a person and solving my own problems, and i trust myself to do it, not a deity of any sort.

i'd explain my whole philosophy but i can't imagine any of you would want to hear it

A sense of morality can be explained by natural selection as I posted in your previous thread. Simply put: species that killed each other died off, leaving only those that don't kill each other.

I don't know about the former part of this statement, but stem cells come from more than aborted babies
But who decides how the proper way is to behave? People all have different ideas of what's in the best interest of species survival though. For example you could say that killing elderly or disabled people is morally acceptable because they hold back the rest of society by draining the species' resources and contributing nothing (this matter was also the subject of a well-written Star Trek episode). Many things that people would consider to be a moral-based matter have nothing to do with species survival, such as whether it's morally wrong to torture animals, eat human flesh, wear no clothes in public, physically punish your children, or be involved in petty theft.

I simply don't think Natural Selection is sufficient to explain morality as we know it in the real world. It's not even consistent when it comes to the subject of murder, because everywhere you go, the definition of murder can also be different. In the US i'd be fairly certain virtually everyone (as well as the written laws) would agree that being killed for peacefully protesting - with no malicious behavior - is an act of murder, while in North Korea or Iran it would be just considered a justified death because you went against the State, as the State would be considered the means of ethnic or social survival (so going against it could be interpreted by them as going against the survival of your people).

Meanwhile religions such as Christianity and Islam are eager to specifically define what they do and don't consider murder, and careful study of their texts can give you a fairly specific picture of what is and isn't okay to do under the rules of those religions.
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i'd explain my whole philosophy but i can't imagine any of you would want to hear it
i do. i  feel like it would be extremely close to mine, and i don't really know how to explain what i believe. all the thoughts are there, but i am never satisfied with the way i articulate my thoughts. i always feel like it's too complicated or all over the place and doesn't make sense

People all have different ideas of what's in the best interest of species survival though. For example you could say that killing elderly or disabled people is morally acceptable because they hold back the rest of society by draining the species' resources and contributing nothing. Many things that people would consider to be a moral-based matter have nothing to do with species survival, such as whether it's morally wrong to torture animals, wear no clothes in public, physically punish your children, or be involved in petty theft.
Because those kinds of beliefs are far too specific to have evolved naturally. They come as a result of developed society. in the era of early homo sapiens they probably wouldn't have taken extra cushy care of the elderly.

Just to point out one flawed example though, clothes come as a result of the embarrassment emotion, which does have a clear survival implication. People who are motivated and active in avoiding embarrassing situations are more likely to get a mate and reproduce. Those who have no shame are less likely.

It's also why everyone has different beliefs...

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Talking Snake!


OT: I don't believe in anything religious, supernatural, etc.

Ness is the only God, Lucas is the prophet

i believe that op is a nerd >:)))))