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Im certainly not Christian but damn... William Lane Craig is on point!

It truly baffled me today. How can people believe there is an objective world! Reality is literally being experienced hands on by one subject! Me! Right now! Thats all I have ever experienced... This bubble! I have never been outside it. I have never experienced birth, I just appeared at around 3 years old as an ego, out of nowhere I came! And the world came along with me! Reality and me are conjoined like siamese twins! So much fantasy... so much thinking... so much delusion. Truth is right before my eyes... If I actually look.

I love these (first one vanished for some reason)

Welp, thats it then, pack up your lab equipment, turn off your particle colliders and go home.

The problem with these kinds of videos is that they assume that poking the brain changes conscioussness but its not, its changing perception, which is very different. Consciousness is that which experiences the changing of the perception! Also, its so conceptual and jargony, consciousness is right here!! Experience it directly!! Stop thinking about it!! Haha! "...words are very unneccessary, they can only do harm..."

What kind of silly thoughts?

Youch... Thats brutal... I will have to look into tribal cultures more, Im far from an expert on Purple.

What is it you want to achieve by reading these books?

Discipline at different stages I guess. Red is the first time Purple realizes that the world is at its feet, "I can have anything I want, wow, and noone can stop me!" They break out of order (Purple) into disorder (Red) only to go back to order again (Blue). My opinion...

Usually Red lack discipline hence why they kill, rob and plunder to get what they want. Now you can argue that figuring out a way to steal without being caught requires discipline but its still being very lazy.

Feel the same. I highly doubt were gonna be watching Netflix with aliens anyway, if they do reveal themselves they will probably stay up in their spaceships watching us make asses of ourselves.

Well thats not possible when it comes to this. Relatively speaking its important to know that this is not some fraudster attention seeker doing the AMA, I mean... Would someone who has been in such high positions really forget to capitalize his I... seems weird to me.

His spelling is hella sloppy, seems weird, how do we know he's legit...

"Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace solved it..." - Richard Dawkins

Its not meaningless, it has just become too bloated and narcissistic, people seem to think science knows everything nowadays, they tend to forget the human biases. There is nothing wrong with using concepts to manipulate reality but sometimes you want to look at a tree as just a tree and marvel at its beauty.

No, being open-minded, attentive and loving as an atheist gives you a better chance of "conversion."

I experience something similar when I study history, I think Im just insecure. I almost constantly repeat to myself "Will I be able to explain this event well enough to others?" Lol.

Aha... a greenhorn ey. Congrats.

I cringe when I run into my old Actualized forum comments.

"According to science" has become a phrase anyone can write in articles or videos to seem more trustworthy. This presupposes 3 things. 1.That the scientific study presented is accurate. 2.That the video or article hasn't cherry picked their research. 3.That science itself is 100% trustworthy. But how many people actually look up the studies after they read an article or watched a video... Go do a Google and Youtube search for "According to Science" and see how many use that specific phrase, youll be shocked.

Science Through a Religious Framework The Origin Myth Big Bang Primordial Soup Evolution Billions of years Sperm race Holy Places Laboratories, Universities Institutes Outer Space Holy Places are hard to get into, only the for the most intelligent and hardworking. Philosophy One life to live, Hedonism, Success, Progress Metaphysics Materialism/Physicalism Linear Time Objective reality behind the scenes Randomness/chance Death is the end The brain Practices The Scientific Method Salvation The Scientific Progress will save humanity. Holy Men Science educators, professors that are all-knowing - Questioning them is taboo. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan etc. Authority University Degrees, Peer reviews, PhDs Persecution Story Struggle against the church, Galileo, Copernicus, Enlightenment saved Humanity from the Dark Ages. Religion held us back. Scripture Scientific literature, peer reviewed papers, best-selling pop science. Dogmatism Rationalism, mocks pseudo-science or post-rationalism as woo-woo, quackery Creates cult like followings Wont hesitate to censor "pseudoscience." Science is the only truth.

Because most humans are not at the level of development where they see insects and other animals as living conscious creatures, and its not conducive to our survival, if every slaughterhouse closed today humanity would go extinct, we need time. Sad truth, yes.

1.Because I have been taught to. I makes me feel horrible to lay a finger on another person. Plus, I would have to live with guilt and shame for the rest of my life, being outcasted by friends and family. You may say "So its all about your feelings and not mine?" Certainly, but heres the genius strange-loopy design, me feeling bad hurting you also prevents you from feeling bad by me hurting you, so egotism turns around on itself. Basically if I feel good by being peaceful and not hurting you then you will also feel good. Empathy always has to start from my subjective ego. 2.I dont want to want to waste my life going to jail.

Of course. Atheism is supposed to be a secular/rational stepping stone you can use to get into real Spirituality, for example without empiricism its hard to understand what direct experience means. Unfortunetaly some people get stuck in their Atheist phase thinking its the end of the road, there is so much more.

I disagree.