Do you believe in god, if not do you believe in something else?

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

vlad321 said:
Then I guess because of that lat part there's no point of this continuing. I will always see any of the currently outlined religions as solely based on blind faith and you will not, hence we come to a fundamental dispute which can't be solved.

Though I have to tell you I'm not an atheist, I just don't believe in anything I have seen of or heard off from the modern religions (like heaven, hell, reincarnation, nirvana, miracles, or something having any type of effect on the universe at all in any way shape or form), and while I'm on the stance that there is no god I'm open to admit that maybe some sentient being, or a race of beings, started the universe (or whatever might be larger) for one reason or another, on purpose, or incidentally. Of course since I believe they can't or just won't do anything supernatural in our plane, universe, whatever and therefore it's pointless to worship them in any way, I approach it as history. They made us, it happened, and that's that, end of story. That's my "belief" in a nutshell, many would call it outright atheism, but I don't feel like it is.

Sounds like you'd be a fan of ancient summerian religion.

I've got a better belief system for you though.

We aren't real.  We're all computer simulations.

It's a "Religion" based on pure statistics.

Short of it.... At some point we will have computers good enough to create an exact copy of a human brain... or someone will. 

Pretty logical if you support the hypothisis that there isn't anything special about people (IE no soul)... as such soon too will it be possible to create exact simulations of people and the world as a whole, perhaps even models of the universe.

If anyone did reach that stage... the reasons to make these computer programs would be monumental from a research standpoint... and hell an entertainment standpoint.

As such... the odds of anyone being in a fake reality would be large then being in the "real" reality.... and you would have no way to know.

Furthermore, perhaps these fake realities could make their own computer generated realities... within their computers... make the odds even more likely for being in a "fake" universe.

Personally it's my "favorite" form of religion, and the one i would believe in... if i felt i had any choice in the matter.

 

I've definetly thought about that too, maybe that's true too, I'm not one to say. Afterall all a human is (the way i see it) is a collection of electrical signals and countless amounts of if...else statements (this is even more true after I learned how neurons actually work). I have always held a belief that if a machine could be created to have the same exact if...else statements, electrical system, and all that, then it might as well be human.

I fully agree on the whole, being created as a science experiment, or entertainment (honestly, from a third person point of view how hilarious would our wars and actions look?). The big bang could have just been our program's BIOS for all we know. Which would also explain why the (current) lack of information of anything before the Big Bang. I just take life as it is and as I said, I don't believe those "watchers" can or would ever do anything to affect our "instance" therefore worshiping them is pointless anyways.