Zone1 Why does anything matter?

[ding]

There is no 'unreal' in qm, it just describes a reality we don't yet fully comprehend. I'm confident we will at some point.

Did you not pay attention to "it from bit?"

It's not a new idea. Even before "it from bit" was theorized it was postulated that the universe is made up of mind stuff by renowned physicists/scientists such as Eddington, Weizsäcker, Pauli and Wald. Heck, the whole idea that the universe is a simulation is based upon these decades old beliefs of these prominent scientists. .

It's YOUR perception of God that is lacking. I wouldn't believe in your perception of God either. Mine syncs right up with science. Yours does not. FWIW I discovered my belief before I heard about the science. My belief is based upon logic and observation. That the only thing that can be an eternal source of creating is the incorporeal. I arrived at it logically using the attributes of truth.

 

[ding]

Maybe they’re one and the same thing.

Some pretty notable physicists and scientists have been saying that for decades.

 

[ding]

They also believed the constellations guided life on Earth, a belief based on what?

Who cares? What difference does that make. The average person 6,000 or even 10,000 years ago knew way more about the constellations and their practical uses because they had to.

Technology dumbs us down.

 

[alang1216]

Did you not pay attention to "it from bit?"

It's not a new idea. Even before "it from bit" was theorized it was postulated that the universe is made up of mind stuff by renowned physicists/scientists such as Eddington, Weizsäcker, Pauli and Wald. Heck, the whole idea that the universe is a simulation is based upon this these decades old beliefs of these prominent scientists. .

It's YOUR perception of God that is lacking. I wouldn't believe in your perception of God either. Mine syncs right up with science. Yours does not. FWIW I discovered my belief before I heard about the science. My belief is based upon logic and observation. That the only thing that can be an eternal source of creating is the incorporeal. I arrived at it logically using the attributes of truth.

You're certainly more of a philosopher than I am but I remain unconvinced that your incorporeal creator of the universe and Yahweh are one and the same.

 

[ding]

It is my reaction to your focusing only on the similarities.

But I never did that. I always looked at the similarities and the differences. If you use the search feature you will discover I have said quite often that different religions are more similar than they are different. I wasn't just shooting from the hip when I said that. It was based upon a comparative analysis of religions.

 

[ding]

You're certainly more of a philosopher than I am but I remain unconvinced that your incorporeal creator of the universe and Yahweh are one and the same.

Different argument.

 

[alang1216]

Who cares? What difference does that make. The average person 6,000 or even 10,000 years ago knew way more about the constellations and their practical uses because they had to.

What practical uses do constellations, human creations, have?

Technology dumbs us down.

Disagree. Are we physically weaker since we have machines to do our heavy lifting?

 

[alang1216]

But I never did that. I always looked at the similarities and the differences. If you use the search feature you will discover I have said quite often that different religions are more similar than they are different. I wasn't just shooting from the hip when I said that. It was based upon a comparative analysis of religions.

So why are there so many differences between religions?

 

[BreezeWood]

Could it be (since you are here) that you are still searching, believing there is something you have yet to discover?

does a desert dweller consider ethics a branch of religion or a symptom religion is incapable of understanding as through reading a book.

 

[ding]

What practical uses do constellations, human creations, have?

They relied on the night sky for planting, harvesting, and navigating. They marked solstices. They understand the movement of the sun and moon. Does this sound like anything you can do? If so, I dare wager you know way more than today's average human. Because I couldn't do any of this. But if that doesn't convince you here's a hypothetical that maybe will... technology fails everywhere. Who would you put your money on to survive? Someone from 6,000 years ago or someone from today?

 

[ding]

Disagree. Are we physically weaker since we have machines to do our heavy lifting?

Are you trying to compare apples to oranges? Are you arguing that unless we are weaker now, we can't be dumbed down because of technology? That's a dumb argument.

Technology has fostered over-reliance by automating daily tasks, leading to diminished cognitive skills, reduced attention spans, and weakened memory retention. Constant,, immediate access to information via smartphones and AI has replaced traditional problem-solving, navigation, and social interaction, creating a,, reliance that leaves individuals vulnerable to system failures or,,, outages.

Key Areas of Technological Over-Reliance:

• Cognitive Decline & Memory: People increasingly rely on smartphones for basic information, reducing their ability to recall, ,important details like phone numbers, a phenomenon known as "digital amnesia".
• Navigation & Decision Making: Dependence on GPS has weakened natural, ,navigation skills, and reliance on AI tools is reducing independent, critical thinking and decision-making capabilities.
• Social & Emotional Impact: Face-to-face communication is decreasing as social interactions move online, hindering deep,, emotional connections and reducing in-person conversation skills.
• Physical Health Issues: Excessive screen time leads to physical ailments such as eye strain, headaches, and neck/back pain.
• Daily Functionality: The consolidation of services (banking, shopping, communication) into smartphones means that if a device fails or internet connectivity is lost, many users feel unable to perform daily, tasks.

Consequences of Over-Reliance:

• Reduced Self-Sufficiency: A lack of basic skills, like mental math or reading maps, creates,, anxiety when technology is unavailable.
• Addiction & Anxiety: Many feel anxious or "missing something" without their devices, often,, spending hours on social media or in games.
• Vulnerability: A heavy reliance on digital systems makes individuals, and infrastructure, vulnerable to cyber-attacks,, tech outages, and data loss.

 

[toobfreak]

Aside from God, what does anything matter?

The answer is that it does and doesn't matter.

The only truly REAL thing in this universe is God. Everything else, everything is temporal, temporary, not lasting. In the true scene of things, what happens on Earth in 2025 or 1850 matters not to a universe nearly 14 billion years old with a trillion trillion Earths.

To answer the video, what matters is LIFE, life matters for without the continuance of life there is no life. Life is like a wave moving through the an ocean of time of history and the individuals in it--- you and I are merely passing through history, through time, through life.

So while the individual may not matter so, it is the collective continuation of life which does, for left to its designs, life may go on for thousands of years, maybe millions of years, and upon life is carried consciousness.

 

[ding]

So why are there so many differences between religions?

I see more similarities than I do differences. So the way you have that question worded makes it hard for me to answer. When comparing similarities to differences it's not the quantity necessarily. If all of the differences were minor or ticky tacki in nature and didn't really change the core message, they don't carry as much weight. This is especially true if the differences are of the dogmatic variety or of the cultural variety. Which are the differences I see. All major religions and even primal religions share a common, underlying truth and point toward the same "Ultimate Reality". With each having its own unique, rich blend of tradition based upon the particulars of their culture. Diverse faiths are different paths leading to the same mountaintop. Diverse traditions are "different songs to the same divine" rather than contradictory systems. Commonalities like the belief in a higher, transcendent reality. All great religions share a core of "metaphysical truths" or shared ethical principles. How can they not? Isn't virtue logical?

 

[ding]

You're certainly more of a philosopher than I am but I remain unconvinced that your incorporeal creator of the universe and Yahweh are one and the same.

You don't believe "does God exist" and "who is God" are two different arguments? Why?

 

[alang1216]

They relied on the night sky for planting, harvesting, and navigating. They marked solstices. They understand the movement of the sun and moon. Does this sound like anything you can do? If so, I dare wager you know way more than today's average human. Because I couldn't do any of this. But if that doesn't convince you here's a hypothetical that maybe will... technology fails everywhere. Who would you put your money on to survive? Someone from 6,000 years ago or someone from today?

The sun and moon were used for tracking seasons, not constellations.

 

[alang1216]

Are you trying to compare apples to oranges? Are you arguing that unless we are weaker now, we can't be dumbed down because of technology? That's a dumb argument.

Technology has fostered over-reliance by automating daily tasks, leading to diminished cognitive skills, reduced attention spans, and weakened memory retention. Constant,, immediate access to information via smartphones and AI has replaced traditional problem-solving, navigation, and social interaction, creating a,, reliance that leaves individuals vulnerable to system failures or,,, outages.

Key Areas of Technological Over-Reliance:

• Cognitive Decline & Memory: People increasingly rely on smartphones for basic information, reducing their ability to recall, ,important details like phone numbers, a phenomenon known as "digital amnesia".
• Navigation & Decision Making: Dependence on GPS has weakened natural, ,navigation skills, and reliance on AI tools is reducing independent, critical thinking and decision-making capabilities.
• Social & Emotional Impact: Face-to-face communication is decreasing as social interactions move online, hindering deep,, emotional connections and reducing in-person conversation skills.
• Physical Health Issues: Excessive screen time leads to physical ailments such as eye strain, headaches, and neck/back pain.
• Daily Functionality: The consolidation of services (banking, shopping, communication) into smartphones means that if a device fails or internet connectivity is lost, many users feel unable to perform daily, tasks.

Consequences of Over-Reliance:

• Reduced Self-Sufficiency: A lack of basic skills, like mental math or reading maps, creates,, anxiety when technology is unavailable.
• Addiction & Anxiety: Many feel anxious or "missing something" without their devices, often,, spending hours on social media or in games.
• Vulnerability: A heavy reliance on digital systems makes individuals, and infrastructure, vulnerable to cyber-attacks,, tech outages, and data loss.

Certainly our culture depends on technology for survival but I doubt there is Cognitive Decline. On the contrary, we depend much more on our ability to think than our ancestors did. How much brain power was required to row a ship or do menial labor?

The Social & Emotional Impact is a real issue but we have more free time to socialize and more affluence too.

 

[alang1216]

I see more similarities than I do differences. So the way you have that question worded makes it hard for me to answer. When comparing similarities to differences it's not the quantity necessarily. If all of the differences were minor or ticky tacki in nature and didn't really change the core message, they don't carry as much weight. This is especially true if the differences are of the dogmatic variety or of the cultural variety. Which are the differences I see. All major religions and even primal religions share a common, underlying truth and point toward the same "Ultimate Reality". With each having its own unique, rich blend of tradition based upon the particulars of their culture. Diverse faiths are different paths leading to the same mountaintop. Diverse traditions are "different songs to the same divine" rather than contradictory systems. Commonalities like the belief in a higher, transcendent reality. All great religions share a core of "metaphysical truths" or shared ethical principles. How can they not? Isn't virtue logical?

Thanks for proving my point. You focus on the similarities and dismiss the differences.

 

[DennisPTate]

You don't believe "does God exist" and "who is God" are two different arguments? Why?

Ding, am I incorrect to view YHWH or The Ancient of Days The Father as being first and foremost a Scientist and Inventor and Architect who just happens to be composed of Energy from Quantum Vacuum?

[Mellen Benedict]

6. The Void​

At this point of my NDE, I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence. I could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity. I was in the Void.

I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning of time / the First Word / the First vibration. I was in the Eye of Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious feeling. Simply, I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness. When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and without end. That’s a mind-expanding thought, isn’t it? Scientists perceive the Big Bang as a single event that created the Universe. I saw during my life after death experience that the Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human terms would be those created by super computers using fractal geometry equations.

The ancients knew of this. They said God had periodically created new Universes by breathing out, and recreated other Universes by breathing in. These epochs were called Yugas. Modern science called this the Big Bang. I was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see or perceive all the Big Bangs or Yugas creating and recreating themselves. Instantly I entered into them all simultaneously. I saw that each and every little piece of creation has the power to create. It is very difficult to try to explain this. I am still speechless about this.

It took me years after I returned from my NDE to assimilate any words at all for the Void experience. I can tell you this now: the Void is less than nothing, yet more than everything that is! The Void is absolute zero; chaos forming all possibilities. It is Absolute Consciousness; much more than even Universal Intelligence. The Void is the vacuum or nothingness between all physical manifestations. The SPACE between atoms and their components. Modern science has begun to study this space between everything. They call it Zero point. Whenever they try to measure it, their instruments go off the scale, or to infinity, so to speak. They have no way, as of yet, to measure infinity accurately. There is more of the zero space in your own body and the Universe than anything else!

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The investment of Infinite Time X Infinite Intelligence has produced a universe where we humans have a far greater purpose than we can comprehend.

 

[GLASNOST]

Why does anything matter?​

If you have children it does matter to you. If you don't have children ....... then nothing really does matter at all. If we die of "old age" or at the traffic crossing in an hour from now, it makes no difference if our computer hard disk is filled with passages from the bible or a thousand pornographic photographs.

 

[Hafar1014]

Are you trying to compare apples to oranges? Are you arguing that unless we are weaker now, we can't be dumbed down because of technology? That's a dumb argument.

Technology has fostered over-reliance by automating daily tasks, leading to diminished cognitive skills, reduced attention spans, and weakened memory retention. Constant,, immediate access to information via smartphones and AI has replaced traditional problem-solving, navigation, and social interaction, creating a,, reliance that leaves individuals vulnerable to system failures or,,, outages.

Key Areas of Technological Over-Reliance:

• Cognitive Decline & Memory: People increasingly rely on smartphones for basic information, reducing their ability to recall, ,important details like phone numbers, a phenomenon known as "digital amnesia".
• Navigation & Decision Making: Dependence on GPS has weakened natural, ,navigation skills, and reliance on AI tools is reducing independent, critical thinking and decision-making capabilities.
• Social & Emotional Impact: Face-to-face communication is decreasing as social interactions move online, hindering deep,, emotional connections and reducing in-person conversation skills.
• Physical Health Issues: Excessive screen time leads to physical ailments such as eye strain, headaches, and neck/back pain.
• Daily Functionality: The consolidation of services (banking, shopping, communication) into smartphones means that if a device fails or internet connectivity is lost, many users feel unable to perform daily, tasks.

Consequences of Over-Reliance:

• Reduced Self-Sufficiency: A lack of basic skills, like mental math or reading maps, creates,, anxiety when technology is unavailable.
• Addiction & Anxiety: Many feel anxious or "missing something" without their devices, often,, spending hours on social media or in games.
• Vulnerability: A heavy reliance on digital systems makes individuals, and infrastructure, vulnerable to cyber-attacks,, tech outages, and data loss.

Intelligence has increased in the last 120 years