I’d like to make a distinction between being sad, as a natural and healthy emotional response to certain deplorable events in our lives and feeling hurt, which, assuming no physical contact was involved, refers to our understanding of the event and the motives of the others involved.
Consider the last time you were turned down in [...]
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Positive thinking has officially become a plague, and not in a good way. Not so long ago, I picked up a guy on Facebook and we started chatting. I said “How are you?” and he said “Amazing!” I said “What’s so amazing?” and he said “Bye” and disconnected. I guess he figured me out right [...]
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When I try to explain my faith, people often respond with “How can you believe in God when in the Bible it says this-and-this piece of bullshit?” (There is plenty of bullshit in the Bible, I don’t want to commit to any particular piece).
So let me state this clearly: faith is not the same as [...]
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As I said in the previous post we come into this life to learn how to learn and how to love. I expect that the necessity to learn is more controversial than the need to love. Most people will acknowledge the importance of love in human existence, especialy in the wider sence which includes love [...]
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After I outlined my thoughts regarding the unreality of life on earth, I was asked by Hilla what was the meaning of having a free will in an imaginary world. If, she said, the reality has no meaning, if it is just a giant game, what meaning can our choices have?
First of all, I have [...]
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I’d like to expand a bit on human suffering and divine morality. As I said (or, rather, as Richard Bach said in Illusions), it makes sense to me that to God our physical existence is a passing episode, like watching a movie is to us: the feelings are real, the lessons are real, but no [...]
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A lot of atheists throw that question at believers, then smile smugly, thinking they have a new winning argument and stop listening to whatever answer you may try to provide.
Truth is that the argument is not very new. It is just another manifestation of the age old question “Why does God allow suffering in the [...]
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When preparing my post On Faith I was quite surprised to discover that belief in after life is consistently less common than the belief in God.
Worldwide in 1990 it’s 82% for God and 59% for afterlife (according to Religion and Economy, by McCleary and Barro in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006). In the USA it’s [...]
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Science is a method for investigating the physical world around us. Two concepts lie in the heart of science: Observations and Theories.
Observations are data that can be received from the outside world through our senses or recorded through instruments whose operation principles are clear.
Theories are what binds the observations together in a meaningful fashion.
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As I explained in the previous post, I’m a cynic. I’m also a believer. I believe in God whom I understand to be a good-willing consciousness that is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent in the very limited sense of being able to induce any state that is within the physical laws of the universe. These two [...]
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