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Someone said that even if you don't believe in God, it is advisable to live your life as if there is a God. What do you think of that?

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Lidasman 4 Apr 5
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...I see no proof of YETTY ,
ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN.....
but just to be safe & hedge
my wager; what else can I fantasize
about...

Oh come on, Yetty does exist. I've seen the grainy footage on the conspiracy sites.
🙂

We can't find one because they live on the underside of our flat earth! ?????

@kensmile4u...I recently heard they be alive
and disputing science at every step;
AT least Neanderthals wanted to improve their lot in life...
Thanks

@kensmile4u, @David1955 ...CNN does documenaries?....My cable company
favors the religious stations so much.
THANX

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I think that if that means living a good life and treating others with kindness, compassion, and respect, then that's not a bad way to live.

I live like that, a good life, and I don't care about gods. Why relate it to a god? Is it that agnostics cannot live a good life?

@Merseyman1 I don't see why they can't. I'm an atheist, but that's how I try to live. Too many people are wrapped up in the nonsense that you can't live a good and moral life without religion. Sad that they can't see beyond their own biases.

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It might be even better to believe god is just the universe, and that the the universe hates you and is trying to kill you at every turn. I'm sure believing this would make the world as it is make much more sense, and maybe motivate you to solve problems to defend yourself against this hostile universe.

Unfortunately the universe doesn't hate us. It just doesn't care. At all. Which always gives us the hope of solving all of our potential problems, and near certainty that ultimately we won't be able to.

I don't know, sometimes I think the universe does hate me, honestly I do.
🙂

@David1955 Lawrence Krauss made a comment (in a video somewhere on youtube, but I can't remember which one) where he said that it is odd that Intelligent Design proponents never tell us to quit cancer research because the cancer has been designed to kill us.

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I like this:

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How does one live as if there is a God? Without specifying a god, it has no meaning to live as if there is one. If you specify one, you really start running into trouble.

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The ruling ideas of a society are the rules of the ruling class. Karl Marx

Actually it was "the ruling ideas of a society are the ideas of the ruling class"

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Total crap!

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My hypothetical god is SEILENOS
[theoi.com]

🙂 God's knows you are cherry picking!!

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What always struck me about Pascal's Wager (and people touched upon it below) is that the "logic" behind it would suggest you should believe in every god anyone ever believed in (or could believe in) "just in case" any of them are true, as to not jeopardize your afterlife. But as Hitchens said, there could be a god and no afterlife...or an afterlife and no god...or a trickster god that punishes good people...etc., etc.

The list of things you COULD believe in to cover your eternal a$$ is very, very long, and nearly all of which is mutually contradictory.

Besides, "believing" something just-in-case doesn't sound like a genuine belief to me in any case. No one would think jumping off a building would be a smart bet just-in-case The Force is real and the Jedi will save you from certain death, and then save the world because that's just the kind of thing they would do.

Well laid out

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If there is a God, Will that God punish you if he finds out you didn’t believe there was a God? Is that what this premise is about?
If you live a good moral, life and are an ethical person and a generous and kind person, And you still don’t believe that there is God, is that God going punish you? Just because you didn’t believe? What kind of a SOB of a God is that?

So far I have not seen any evidence that there is a God.
Does that mean that gives me the freedom Lie, steal, cheat and kill? Because no “God” is looking?
The someone that said that has no self respect.
pretending believe in God is living a lie.

Many agnostics/atheists believe that if God isn't seen by them, talks to them, do some magic tricks for them, then they are convinced He doesn't exist.

"Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?  … Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain." ~ B. Stoker

We tend to assume that we can see, feel and experience everything there is to be perceived in life.

12 Things We Can’t See, But Amazingly Exist
"Each and every day there is a rich and complex world going on just beyond our veil of perception.
In fact, literally anything could be happening right now without us knowing – invisible worlds colliding, unseen births, deaths, transformations. In fact, quantum physics suggests that the past, present and future is simultaneously occurring right now.

What science does know only represents a minuscule fraction of what likely exists beyond our perception. The following points represents things that exist, but aren’t visible to the naked human eye."

  1. Radio Waves
  2. Atoms
  3. Dark Matter
  4. Antimatter
  5. Air/Oxygen
  6. Ultraviolet Light
  7. Gravity
  8. Infrared
  9. Mind
  10. Emotions
  11. Quantum Particles
  12. The Entire Universe

We develop more respect for life once we realize how small and limited we truly are. “Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.” Pro 17:28

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The most ridiculous idea, on the contrary, If you believe in god it's advisable that you live your life as if there isn't any god, so you don't waste it! And who is that 'someone' to send him to the inquisiton!

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Which god?

Bad idea, some of them are pretty fucked up.

1of5 Level 8 Apr 5, 2019
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impossible cause what is god, some many of them too!

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Even if your parents don't beat the crap out of you, you should live your life as though they do

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I think that god is an irrelevance and have never believed that there is such an entity, How then can I start pretending that I think there is? I think that would be completely nonsensical, and it would mean that I would be pretending to believe something that I don’t. Can’t be done. Surely if there is a god, he wouldn’t be fooled by my pretence anyway!

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Isn't a life based on reality better than one based on a fantasy?

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I think it's cowardly AF.

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Why is this advisable and what does it mean?

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Complete BS.

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I think that even if you believe in a big man that sits on the clouds, it's your responsibility to not be an asshole.

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Why would it ever be advisable to live under a false assumption?

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Nope, that's dumb. It's not that hard to be a good person.....

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False.

zesty Level 7 Apr 5, 2019
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I differentiate between morality and religion. The two are separate things (in my life). I consider myself a moral person. I'm not perfect, but I try to obey the laws of the land -- don't agree with all, but I doubt everyone does. I would rather live in an ordered environment that a chaotic one (no laws or laws different in every place one travels). I've met many people of many faiths, who are moral folk, but don't believe in Christianity. Many Christians (and others) think morals are their domain and it is not.

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