LuckyR wrote: ↑June 24th, 2023, 1:49 amNicely put, Lucky. If we want to look for our Creator, we need only look up at the sky during a cloudless day. It comprises 99.8% of the mass of its system and beams sustaining energy down to us. It is the creator and maintainer of the Earth, whose surface grew a thin film of biology about four billion years ago, and has been in a state of alternating gentrification ever since.Joshua10 wrote: Can you definitively prove there is no God though? You definitely know you can’t prove it so why make such foolish statements when you could be wrong? What you mean is that you HOPE there is no God.Oh, you so don't understand me. I have always said that gods exist, since they do. Though gods exist inter-subjectively, not objectively. That is to say gods exist in the minds of their followers, just as corporations, countries and money do. Everyone agrees Germany exists, gods exist the same way.
The constant change is inconvenient to Earth's denizens. Conditions on the planet's surface can be so brutal and unforgiving that, if people believed themselves to be the most important beings in reality, they might figure that their creator had stuffed up.
Why is is life so harsh? Why must life only persist through the death or exploitation of other entities? Many observers claim that Earth must be Hell, but how would they explain the many happy people - from lucky billionaires to philosophical poor people? What about pampered dogs and cats? Are they living in Hell?
If reality is not all about humans and their emotions, however, humanity is simply one system within a Russian doll configuration of systems and subsystems. The conscious parts of these systems manage as best they can. Sometimes they need to invent myths about reality to cope.