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Sunday, March 26. 2023

Is existence a God's simulation?

None of us have a doctorate in metaphysics nowadays (I think), but is life just a dream? 


I like to imagine that my life has my own steering wheel, but I am not sure about that. I do know that all lives have or need some sort of anchorage, centering, lodestar - whatever.  Do we live in a God's simulation? Is that  Judeo-Christian view?


Best if I shut up before writing more. This is interesting:




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Makes you appreciate modern dentistry.
#1 Jerryskids on 2023-03-26 18:19 (Reply)
You don't have to be in control for life to be real. Many people in history were not in control of their lives, but they were very real.
#2 jack walter on 2023-03-26 19:01 (Reply)
Our lives are not our own; to claim so would be to claim to have created oneself. We have little control, although it is easy to deceive oneself that one has, but we do have free will and therefore the moral privilege to make choices in specific situations.
#2.1 DeGaulle on 2023-03-27 03:45 (Reply)
Pertaining to your last line from above. It seems that when I took anthropology many years ago the professor told us that almost all if not all early civilizations developed a god or gods to lead their lives. Humans have gods to lead them on a path for a good life even if some leaders of the people pervert the will of their god/gods. He seemed to state that needing a deity was built into the human code.
#3 JC on 2023-03-27 07:56 (Reply)
We are still living in Biblical times.
#4 Bull on 2023-03-29 01:20 (Reply)

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