On 31 Dec 2013, at 22:16, LizR wrote:
My 15 year old son asked me "Why do people believe in God?"
Because all correct machine, cognitively rich enough (= believing in
numbers and induction, or being Löbian, ...) when they look inward,
discover the gap between G and G*, or the gap between truth about them
and proof about them.
Then some machine try to communicate that experience---which is
impossible, and so they will use image and parables, which are not
understood, and parrots repeat, politician exploits, and little
children believe they parroting parents, teachers, etc.
We all believe, consciously or unconsciously, in God, in that large
sense of a transcendental reason of our existence, but we are always
wrong when we project attributes to It/Her/Him, and much more wrong
when invoking them for direct terrestrial purposes, where "God" is
only an authoritative argument (always invalid, especially in the
religion field, where it used the most).
Adults believing literally in fairy tales are just infants refusing to
grow spiritually. They are governed by people who want steal the
responsibility and the maturity, and which have no interest at all in
spiritual research. The goal is to steal more easily the money and
power.
Bruno
Once I'd sung a couple of verses of "The Second Sitting for the Last
Supper" by 10cc (as you do) I started to explain the various angles
on this - avoiding cognitive dissonance, being sure that you're
right in the face of all the evidence, having answers to all
possible criticisms because of "The Book", being able to take the
moral highground and patronise all the deluded fools who haven't
seen the light, and so on.
No relevance to the present topic, of course.
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