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Originally Posted by Chuckychess
Yes.
Well the religion, like them all, is a mythical, fablist, legendary type of dealing with origins and morality, etc. But, and this is what tilted me, to exchange it for scientific metaphysics is beyond dubious.
Here is what happened. I wrote a book about about metaphysics, origins, spirituality, mysticism, etc. The very day I had submitted the final edits I was playing PLO that night at the Hard Rock Tampa. Somewhat amazingly synchronistically, soon included in my next book on synchronicity, a guy at the table made a prop bet about the amount of atheists at the table. They bet on it. It came down to me 4-4, theist versus atheist. I told him my just submitted idea of quantum field as the best candidate for god (it's everywhere/omni-present, houses all knowledge/ommiscient, and creates all via amplification). He says, "Well, if you have quantum field, or anything as god, you are a theist."
No biggie, just lame on his part. Then began the debate soon after on forums, and I just ran headlong into, "Yeah but Jesus created the quantum fields, Jesus knew all about quantum mechanics, like duh obvious, Jesus designed the Big Bang and all the billions of galaxies ...'
And it's just fukkin ignorant dogma, like that. So it was an insult to the research and to honest discussion. And, in my 50's, having never been involved in theist/atheist debates, I just didn't know what I was getting into: a fairy tale, a "just so story," sitting in for ACTUAL metaphysics, in effect reducing the Great Mystery to an idiotic nursery rhyme, with 100% certainty no less, having never read a book on the subject, just on faith. And using this kind of faith as virtue signaling, more than anyone else, to themselves.
Last edited by FellaGaga-52; 09-19-2022 at 10:15 PM.