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From my perspective it's one of many evidences that our planet was intentionally created by God. I think He wanted us to experience these rare and spectacular e
by theodorejb 3y ago
From my perspective it's one of many evidences that our planet was intentionally created by God. I think He wanted us to experience these rare and spectacular events and use them to make astronomical discoveries.
- grecy 3y ago[flagged]
- simion314 3y ago>Once you've seen someone die painfully and slowly from cancer over years, you know there can be no god. i agree with you, but I think the conclusion from your argument is that the Good god does not exist, it is still possible that a Creator exist, but one that is not Good. kind or have human like qualities and morals.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoVonnegut had The Church of God The Utterly Indifferent. Exists, but doesn't give a shit about anything that happens to creation.
- qup 3y agoObserver mode
- plastic3169 3y agoThat’s what I wonder about simulation theory. People say that it’s just nerds coming up with another god, but isn’t there the difference that if we live in a simulation it’s highly unlikely that the folks running it will come to hand pick the believers in to a heaven program after they die.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoWell, it really depends on the features the TA required for the project.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoStanislaw Lem had a story about that too (surprise!), read by many of in Hofstader & Dennett's "The Minds Eye". The simulation-runner expresses wonderment that the denizens of the simulation would imagine that he cared in any way about them.
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoWhat a needlessly complicated way to describe deism.
- damontal 3y agoWell. No God that you agree with maybe.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI have long observed that the Abrahamic God seems to be quite an asshole, at least based on the writings his followers believe in. Heck, sometimes I have idle thoughts that maybe that which people call 'God' these days is in fact 'Satan' and he did in fact tempt everyone away from the real deal.
- pdonis 3y ago> maybe that which people call 'God' these days is in fact 'Satan' and he did in fact tempt everyone away from the real deal. The Gnostics built an alternative version of Christianity around this idea.
- reaperducer 3y agoI have long observed that the Abrahamic God seems to be quite an asshole If you only read the Old Testament, that makes sense. The reason that Jesus threw such a massive spanner into the works and made everyone upset was that he preached the exact opposite. Then everyone freaked out.
- temporarely 3y agoWhat about the Psalms? Was David gaga over some bloodthirsty god or was he singing his heart out for a God worthy of Love?
- reaperducer 3y agoCouldn't tell you. I'm not a Biblical scholar, or a member of the clergy. You should ask one. They're always happy to help.
- temporarely 3y ago
- rootusrootus 3y agoYeah, why does he not ever get the blame? Many people are quick to give him all the credit for good things, but mysteriously that no longer applies when something bad happens. Huh.
- reaperducer 3y agobut mysteriously that no longer applies when something bad happens. It happens all the time. Perhaps more often than when good things happen. You can see it right in this very thread. It's like you're not even looking.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI'm specifically referring to believers.
- reaperducer 3y agoStill happens all the time.
- reaperducer 3y agoSeriously though, if god was real, don't you think she would take away Childhood leukemia, or prevent the holocaust, rather than riddles and odd science setups ? If you seriously wanted the answer, you'd ask the people who have been studying this question for hundreds or thousands of years. Asking a bunch of randos on a tech blog doesn't come off as "serious." It comes off as someone who's already formed an opinion and is repeating it to himself to reinforce his position. It's like saying you "seriously" want to understand Mozart, and then go asking at the dog show.
- temporarely 3y agoAnything other than that which is experienced by the self is inadmissible as a critique of God, imo. But that is for believers. For the believers this earthly existence is a developmental phase, kinda like being in your mom's belly. We drink blood and are covered by darkness, figuratively speaking. And then we emerge a 'New Creation' -- as spiritual beings. For someone who only accepts material reality framed by womb and tomb, naturally the question has already been answered: "No god" and then the strawman God of the materialist -- "why doesn't God make material existence as perfect as spiritual existence, bad God .." -- makes an entrance and gets its deserved downvotes.
- 11101010001100 3y agowhy can't it be 'accidentally' by God?
- aquova 3y ago"It's a feature, not a bug" ~ God, probably
- m0rdoor54 3y agoAlthough I do not consider myself to be a very religious person I have to say, that is a very beautiful thought. It's exceedingly rare these days that any topic brought up on religion will actually give me pause and for a moment make me wonder if there is something beyond scientific coincidence. It just really goes to show how all the fanfare behind a natural phenomenon as simple as an eclipse can be such a worthwhile human experience to share.
- atonse 3y agoI just want to say that I don't understand why this is being downvoted. I'm an atheist and still see it as a wonderful (and different) way to interpret this fact. Even I am in awe of that fact, and it's only natural for crazy coincidences to feel "intentional"
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- mullingitover 3y agoIt’s a nice to think that a creator took a break from devising all our ingeniously cruel childhood diseases to give us the occasional eclipse.