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Ok, let's keep insults to the smallest level mmmmk.
You wake up tomorrow and God is 100% proven, then what?
On the flip side its 100% disproved, then what?
Discuss.
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Posted by jeepdave
You wake up tomorrow and God is 100% proven, then what?
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Figure out how to kill Him.
Posted by jeepdave
On the flip side its 100% disproved, then what?
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Figure out how to convince people that the proof is wrong. Profit?
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In the first case, whose god? It's kinda relevant. And how much of their afterlife story is confirmed? There are some religions where I'm not going to hell, so it's possible nothing changes.
Hey! I said some...
In the second, I'm already operating on that basis.
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Posted by underdark
In the first case, whose god? It's kinda relevant. And how much of their afterlife story is confirmed? There are some religions where I'm not going to hell, so it's possible nothing changes.
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True. It would make a LOT of difference WHICH god it was. And you can't even just say the "christian" god, because I know christians who think god is a pretty easygoing, chill kind of dude, and some who think he's nothing but distilled wrath, vengeance, and jealousy.
That being said, I suppose if proof of an immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing being surfaced, it would be smart to do whatever it told you to do...
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Ok yall are asking which "God". Any. I'm simply asking is what impact it would have to know that yes, there is a "creator" so to speak or vice-versa no, there is nothing after death. That's all.
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Go on living as I did the day before.
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In case one I would make sweet love to all UER posters.
In case two I would just put up the UER Christmas theme. : )
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Posted by underdark
In the first case, whose god? It's kinda relevant. And how much of their afterlife story is confirmed? There are some religions where I'm not going to hell, so it's possible nothing changes.
Hey! I said some...
In the second, I'm already operating on that basis.
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Good point, but I would assume that it's the god on which we were raised. In most of our cases it would be the Abrahamic god, AKA Yahweh.
What would I do? I guess it would depend on how much obeisance he demanded. Knowing that he could crush me like a bug or would send me to Hell if I didn't straighten up and fly right, I guess I'd have to fall in line with everyone else.
His existence has already been pretty much disproven, though. Read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. But if it became common knowledge, I'd have to protect myself from everyone who took this new-found knowledge as license not to behave in a civilized manner.
As if they do now.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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Posted by Oryx
Go on living as I did the day before.
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Same here.
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Posted by splumer
I'd have to protect myself from everyone who took this new-found knowledge as license not to behave in a civilized manner.
As if they do now.
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Ooh that's a good point. Hm. I think they might be worse finding out god DIDN'T exist though.
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Posted by Oryx
Ooh that's a good point. Hm. I think they might be worse finding out god DIDN'T exist though.
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No kidding. I believe I'll be arming myself for protection.
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Posted by rainman8889
No kidding. I believe I'll be arming myself for protection.
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I would do the same if I found out that Cthulhu existed. Bob Dobbs, not so much.
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Posted by earthworm
I would do the same if I found out that Cthulhu existed. Bob Dobbs, not so much.
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Ia! Ia! Chulhu Fhtagn!
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I live assuming he does, so if I woke up tomorrow and was convinced that he didn't exist...I suppose I would become a violent hedonist?
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Posted by Yehoshua
I live assuming he does, so if I woke up tomorrow and was convinced that he didn't exist...I suppose I would become a violent hedonist?
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Like the rest of us, you mean?
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Well there are plenty of atheists out there who aren't violent hedonists. I would assume AT FIRST most people would be sane, but then the psychotic religious nuts would flip a shit and cause others to follow.
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Posted by Oryx
..., but then the psychotic religious nuts would flip a shit and cause others to follow.
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Like they've been doing for generations. In other words, for them, business as usual.
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Posted by jeepdave
Ok yall are asking which "God". Any. I'm simply asking is what impact it would have to know that yes, there is a "creator" so to speak or vice-versa no, there is nothing after death. That's all.
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Well, that kinda why I ask which one turns out to be right. If this life is just a dress rehearsal for an eternity in the afterlife then it would only make sense to play by the rules IF the punishment for being found wanting was eternal punishment. But if some faith that didn't play by the Christian rulebook was found to be correct then it might not be all that bad.
What does this creator want? And what happens to those that fail to deliver?
And if it's the Scientologists, how does one commit deicide?
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Posted by Oryx
Well there are plenty of atheists out there who aren't violent hedonists. I would assume AT FIRST most people would be sane, but then the psychotic religious nuts would flip a shit and cause others to follow.
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I think the hardcore types would just continue believing, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. They might use the argument "God created that evidence as a test of faith."
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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Posted by splumer
I think the hardcore types would just continue believing, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. They might use the argument "God created that evidence as a test of faith."
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That's most likely true. Like the whole thing with dinosaur bones. So thinking about it more... looks like if God were proven real, nothing much would really change.
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