I don’t think God Exists!!! Do You?
I asked God to stop Acts against me and he ignored me...
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@hartfire Except it is impossible for life to exist apart from the life force that is not part of this creation.
@hippyjoe1955 So so believe HippieJoe.
I see it as exactly the other way around.
I see it as exactly the other way around.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@hartfire Sadly you don't have any reliable evidence one way or the other. there certainly is no evidence for abiogenesis. None what so ever. Nor is there any evidence that complex creatures came from simpler ones. The only evidence we see is that each life form was fully formed when it left behind its remains for us to examine. We can't find any transition species.
@hippyjoe1955 Sadly for you. Not for me.
I get it that your faith is such that you feel sorry for everyone who doesn't believe as you do.
It is never the same for those who don't believe.
We're happy as we are - or at least I certainly am.
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This is how it is for me.
If I sit and observe my conscious awareness of sense perceptions and cognitive processes, I observe that they take energy.
It is literally bioelectrical energy created by the exchange of electrons in a chain reaction down the axon and dendrites, and transmitted to the neighbouring axons via the firing of neurotransmitters like oxytocin, serotonin or any one of 84 other biochemicals. I can feel the effects of them because each carries a specific emotional and cognitive sensation.
The computer networks talking to each other via electrical impulses across the world make an excellent analogy. They couldn't do it without electricity derived from the sun, wind, hydro, nuclear fission or fossil fuels.
I know that if I need energy I must breathe, exercise, eat, drink and sleep regularly.
The body cannot create energy without these metabolic processes being regularly supplied.
Thus there is no consciousness without the body.
We make sense of it via complex layers of coding, and the same occurs in how our brains make sense of the electrical stimuli triggered by our senses. All of it is actually physical.
But if I were to stop eating and drinking for three days, by the end of it I would die. There would be zero consciousness left.
It is, in fact, how we define the moment of death.
We can even read it with an ECG machine.
I get it that your faith is such that you feel sorry for everyone who doesn't believe as you do.
It is never the same for those who don't believe.
We're happy as we are - or at least I certainly am.
___
This is how it is for me.
If I sit and observe my conscious awareness of sense perceptions and cognitive processes, I observe that they take energy.
It is literally bioelectrical energy created by the exchange of electrons in a chain reaction down the axon and dendrites, and transmitted to the neighbouring axons via the firing of neurotransmitters like oxytocin, serotonin or any one of 84 other biochemicals. I can feel the effects of them because each carries a specific emotional and cognitive sensation.
The computer networks talking to each other via electrical impulses across the world make an excellent analogy. They couldn't do it without electricity derived from the sun, wind, hydro, nuclear fission or fossil fuels.
I know that if I need energy I must breathe, exercise, eat, drink and sleep regularly.
The body cannot create energy without these metabolic processes being regularly supplied.
Thus there is no consciousness without the body.
We make sense of it via complex layers of coding, and the same occurs in how our brains make sense of the electrical stimuli triggered by our senses. All of it is actually physical.
But if I were to stop eating and drinking for three days, by the end of it I would die. There would be zero consciousness left.
It is, in fact, how we define the moment of death.
We can even read it with an ECG machine.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@hartfire Silly you. When I was young and stupid I was a very evangelical atheist. I would confront any Christian I ever met. I loved to explain to them all the science and stuff I had learned in school. Then I began to doubt my faith. I was noticing the extreme detailed designs in both living creatures. I wasn't a biologist but still I could see that there was intricate design in everything I looked at. The thing worked! How could it work and replicate it success without being designed. It couldn't. Not a chance it could work without some fantastic design Designer behind it. The more I looked the more convinced I became. Then one warm summer day I was walking across the open prairie when I saw this little white rock poking above the native grasses. I'm not sure why but I felt the need to kneel at that little rock and as I did I met the ONE that I had been denying existed. You see I have been on both sides of the debate and remain firmly on this side because of science, logic and experience. Sucks to be you that have always been on one side and have your fingers in your ears yelling "Can't hear you" to all and sundry.
Carazaa · F
@hippyjoe1955
Me too! I was just a kid but I did not at all believe in God and decided to kind of prove to myself that the Bible was a joke but then one day I wanted to test God and I asked him to prove to me he existed by moving a penny while I sleep. I woke up and the penny was still there and that’s when God saved me! Instantly I felt ashamed for doubting God and realized that he does not have to prove his existence to me at all and I cried and begged for forgiveness for doubting and for being so disrespectful! I promised God to dedicate my life to him and go wherever he wants me to go and do whatever he wants me to do!
Me too! I was just a kid but I did not at all believe in God and decided to kind of prove to myself that the Bible was a joke but then one day I wanted to test God and I asked him to prove to me he existed by moving a penny while I sleep. I woke up and the penny was still there and that’s when God saved me! Instantly I felt ashamed for doubting God and realized that he does not have to prove his existence to me at all and I cried and begged for forgiveness for doubting and for being so disrespectful! I promised God to dedicate my life to him and go wherever he wants me to go and do whatever he wants me to do!