Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 4748

On April 11 2015 02:23 Ketara wrote:
Here's something completely different.

I was practicing cooking this past week or two.

Made some things:

+ Show Spoiler +

On April 11 2015 02:23 Ketara wrote:
Here's something completely different.

I was practicing cooking this past week or two.

Made some things:

+ Show Spoiler +

On April 11 2015 02:28 wei2coolman wrote:

your camera setting makes the food look fake.

also, why is there a slit in your pie?

On April 11 2015 02:28 wei2coolman wrote:

your camera setting makes the food look fake.

also, why is there a slit in your pie?

On April 11 2015 02:27 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:


that is, actually very impressive. is it correct to assume everything was made from scratch?

On April 11 2015 02:39 TheYango wrote:
The "usefulness" of those deities is more or less so that the existentially distraught can fall asleep at night. Which I think is fine.

On April 11 2015 02:33 Scip wrote:
Well, the position you find yourself in is a fairly common one Numy. Nobody can disprove the existence of deities unless they are logically impossible (in which case we have a good reason to reject the possibility of their existence) or unless they can be demonstrated to be false.

As for the rest of logically possible but unfalsifiable deities, they are non-scientific claims of what I would argue to be dubious usefulness and live my life without worship. That is the position you'd find the modern atheist writers defending. What may be the difference between our positions is how probable we think that an unknown supernatural (nevermind what supernatural is even supposed to mean) "force" exists. Or it may be we are in the exact same position.

On April 11 2015 02:41 Scip wrote:

Some unkind people might say that believing something you yourself know to be very likely untrue for comfort isn't very intelectually honest nor very adult.
Some unkind people

On April 11 2015 02:44 Ketara wrote:
He doesn't say meow.

He says "Mmmnnnneeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyuhhhhhhhh"

On April 11 2015 02:51 wei2coolman wrote:

have you met most adults? they couldn't care less about intelligence, much less intellectual honesty.

On April 11 2015 02:07 Numy wrote:


Cool thanks. Never really looked into finding a word to describe how I feel. Now you done it for me :D. I also believe in the possibility of Aliens. Just seems highly unlikely we'll ever encounter each other. More likely each civilization dies long before that point. Seems to fit lol

On April 11 2015 02:48 Numy wrote:


I think you're on the right track honestly just as you said slightly different positions. Deities have their uses if they push in the right direction I feel even if they may not exist. A deity that tells people to be good, rational and kind hearted individuals would be one I could get behind regardless of my view on the existence of it. Also if deities do exist then it stands to reason that superpowers exist too so no way I'm not keeping that possibility open :D

On April 11 2015 02:56 Scip wrote:

What about a person who tells people to be good, rational and kind hearted? You don't need to invoke the divine or the supernatural to either suggest or demand that others act in accordance with those rules. I would even say that invoking the divine (and, presumably, the possible punishments or rewards the deity offers) to assert these are rules one should live by is less honest, less effective and less permanent than engaging in an honest philosophical discussion of what kind of society we want to live in.

Moreover I'd say it actually clouds what morality is actually about, which is how we should act towards each other and other living beings, rather than about what kind of behavior we believe gets rewarded and what gets punished. Great deal of progress has been given up by the second school of thought.