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Bong Lover on 17 May 2011
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sapphi_snake said:
Bong Lover said:

It is a bunch of nonsense to you and to Stephan Hawking and many others, but to many others (most?) it is not. No one knows who is right. The book tries to show a view where spirituality, 'leaps of faith' and indeed religion has a role in how we see the world. In my opinion it does an excellent job of delivering that message. As the tagline or whatever says, the book is not about making you believe in God, it's about making you want to believe in God. I don't take that statement litteraly, rather as a one liner describing the core message of the book.

As for your experiment, it makes me wonder if you understand what I am saying as it obviously would not give any answer to the philosophical question at hand.

No, it would not provide the answer. I was just annoyed at that moment. Sorry.

"Spirituality" is nonsense, and I don't see leaps of faith and religion presenting the real world, but a delusion, a deformed version of it.

I also not only do not believe in God, but I don't want to beleive in God either and would not be interested in serving God even if such a thing existed (for reasons I mentioned in other topics, and which I do not want to repeat).

Yeah, it's quite apparent that you don't buy into a world view that allows for anything 'supernatural'. Also I get that you (erronously in my opinion) feel that religion and spirituality promotes a dangerous world view. That's fine, the proposition of Life of Pi does not appeal to you, life goes on. However you feel about the book though, I still think it is a mistake to interpret it as a story that shows the danger of religious delusion. That is ironically 'missing the better story'.

Finally, and I know I should not ask this question because no good can come from it, but I ask anyway. Assuming that spirituality is nonsense, that the world can be described presisely using reason and physics, what makes it wrong to kill another man? If reality is nothing but physics and matter, how do you justify normative rules?