I used not to belive in god too, because i just assumed that religious people were dumb(axiom). But after a while, i figured, that there could be some god-like intelligence which we don't know yet. There could be something, not measureable, but still be there. Do you belive in something like an intelligent force which we just can't measure yet?
At this stage I am pretty sure there must be reality outside this reality, as I everything I know of has an external domain. So for me it's not a matter of belief - I just cannot imagine any other option.
Whereas what I actually believe (and it's an act of unjustified faith) is that there are aspects of this external reality which have impact on our reality.
This might be relevant
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@josephd/are-there-3-different-worlds-that-are-fundamentally-different
Excellent post. It's a shame it did not receive a proper payout.
Thanks!
Yeah, it was written when i had about 75 followers, and i was trying to just gain a following.. Have to say the level of engagement has appreciably improved now..
Thanks again for the upvote, $34 is a sizable amount for me :)
I am pleased to have discovered you. We might disagree on some concepts but still I appreciate the quality of your thinking.
For me it's very encouraging that here on Steem sooner or later every valuable contributor will be discovered - it's just a matter of being consistent.
Actually, your old post has sparked an interesting exchange between @kyriacos and myself. I wonder what you think of it.
What aspects are you talking of?
It's interesting that you name it, Nikola Tesla has a similar view on the things - he belive that parallel universes exist!
Morality comes from outside.
So morality isn't shaped by hundreds of years of evolution?
That's a tough question, I'm still grappling with it.
Evolution is the source of ultimate truth - which means for me that truth can be defined as whatever survived the process of evolution and the oldest something is the more truth it conveys.
Thus I treat evolution as a mechanism of discovering the truth. Morality manifests itself via evolution but is not the end-product of it.
We could say that morality is the set of rules that allowed those who followed them to survive. But this does not imply that evolution created those rules. Instead we could say that evolution revealed the rules we now call morality.
Actually I was thinking about an answer against the "evolution created those rules" argument but couldn't find any. It seems logical that nature had those rules already and by time it just revealed them to us, because we were getting smarter to discover them. So morality does come from something outside. But why do you think there is another reality outside of this one?
Because I don't know of anything that does not have some sort of reality outside of itself. Both mathematically and physically there is no such entity.