Yes, absolutely. I cannot present evidence. Evidence must be acquired. It is no accident that many threads on this trading website focus around what is real and what is not. Non-successful traders will never believe that successful traders exist. Too much mental trauma. A higher power suggests that you are more than the sum of your parts. For some, that is too much.
Its what I like about the eastern approach to investigations of truth, their parables are understood to be taken as metaphor.
I can appreciate this fact, and I KNOW that I haven't put it all together, and I KNOW I never will. My problem is understanding how someone who admittedly doesn't know what the fuck is going on out there, can believe in god? I guess you could say I put the existence of everything in the universe into probabilities. Something I can touch, feel, hear, smell, hold in my hands etc. I would assign a 100% probability that it exists. Something I cannot, would be assigned a very low probability of existing, such as god or the supernatural.
You are angry FT. And don't mean that in an Oprah sense. I have followed your posts with interest. A lot of what you followed for a majority of your life you have falsified, much like Captain Obvious. I cannot pass any kind of judgement, as I would not be qualified to do so, but I would have to ask, how do you know beyond a considerable doubt that there is no higher power? Notice I did not say Yahweh, or Allah, etc. How do you know, for certain, that all you perceive, is all there is?
I openly admit that I, nor anyone, really knows for sure. My question is why is your default position to believe in god? Is it not, at the very least, equally as possible that almost infinite universes exist as there is a god who created this whole shebang? Why do you automatically dismiss the claim that almost infinite other universes exist, or any other scientific theory as to how the universe came to be?
What you're saying to me makes absolutely no sense. It might ring true with someone else, but personally I cannot make sense of your argument. To me, it sounds like you are saying you believe in god because you don't really know what's out there, and you think you've experienced some sort of miracle(s) in your life, and that I will inevitably experience the same sort of miracle and come to realize that god exists. This makes no sense to me. But I thank you for attempting to explain your reasoning. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
it is better to err on the safe side. even if there is an outside chance that God exists and will buttf*k the unbelievers before or after their death, why risk it?
Understood, but your probabilities are based on what you perceive as a known data set. U might want to ask LTCM about that.
We don't know. Again, that is the point. But the fact that we don't know if all we perceive is all there is should not mean that the default position is to believe in a higher power. This is false logic if you ask me. Innocent until proven guilty. Does not exist until proven it exists.
This is the best post you've ever made, my short friend. And I truly think this is why many religious people believe in god. In their heart they know the concept is absurd, but on that outside chance it isn't, they believe "just in case".