On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:32:10AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and > why?
Ooh, that is a good question. It made me realise that I actually live like an animal, only eating and reading from the net but not much autoreflection. I guess that the thing of the year 2019 was, in my case, realisation that reason is not a king on this planet, and quite possibly not on other planets as well, should they have a life there. But there is a king. It defies all logic, trum... uh-hum... walks over the reason and makes anything else irrelevant, despite everybody claiming otherwise. You see, I kind of knew that we humans do not care much about logic, but there was still a question about what replaces the logic. And I suspect this has been realised by clever people long before me, so this time it is not going to be covered by the news. However, for me, who I am afraid is a bit klutzy, it was still an achievement. And the king's name is procreation. This view may change in a future, because I am changing all the time, getting new data and refining conclusions. For now, I look around to see if indeed everything about people is set up to serve the king. Or the queen. The working rule of thumb is, whenever I come to see something that does not make sense (claiming that facts are just myths, for example, or amassing power for the sake of amassing power), I should try to see if underneath there is a purpose serving the queen's goal. So this is not a finished job, just a hypothesis which needs to be supported with observations. But at least I do not have to keep asking myself why people seem to be such irrational idiots, sometimes. And the thing of the year 2018 (or 2017, maybe) was when I decided that if there is God (it may be singular or plural, but it is easier for me to keep It singular) and there is free will (which we may posess), than God cannot know the future. Because Its knowledge is absolute, so when It knows I will send this email, then I will send it, and nothing can change it, thus I would have no free will. Whether humans actually do have free will, I am not sure. But I hope so, it certainly makes things more interesting (for us) and maybe gives humanity a bit of hope. There is also a small question about why a free will would be needed at all - so far I decided it is here just to entertain God. Come to think of it, you made the whole Universe and you know everything about its past and present. If there was no free will, you would also know everything about its future. This would have been infinitely boring, as far as I can say. Speaking of God, and religion, I am very loosely associated with catholicism (baptised & raised, have met few priests from my extended family and there may be some about whom I have not heard yet). In my case it is much more about trying to uncover some of the puzzles (as in above paragraph) than doing my part of daily/weekly rituals or making everybody believe in same thing. I myself do not really give much about beliefs of other people (as long as they do not start to believe it would be a good thing to come after me with pitchforks and burning torches). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
