Posted: Jan 01, 2017 11:14 pm
VazScep wrote:Are these really the only motifs we can come back to? Are they the most profound ideas to impact us? If so, then I have to give religion its due. They're all in our heads, but that's not such a contemptible place for them.Keep It Real wrote:The atheist/agnostic labels aren't mutually exclusive you know. I lack belief in gods but it is hypothetically possible one/many exist so I'm an atheist and an agnostic. That leaves the door wide open for a fucked up paranoid trip of Messiah complex, visions of hell, thinking natural sounds are god's communications to you etc.
There were other motifs too which featured but the messiah complex/terror of hell were the strongest from what I can remember. After all, what could be worse than eternity spent in agony? Infinity.
VazScep wrote:Have you heard of the hell of quantum immortality? I say that's a dark idea way beyond the imaginations of the sort of people who wrote all that feeble religious crap. A friend of mine, Roko, once spelled it out for me, though I already had the implications in my head. He went on to develop a thought experiment that sufficiently scared the atheists who run the website LessWrong, that they banned all talk of it.
Sounds interesting, although I tend to be very skeptical of spooky quantum stuff so I doubt it would scare me much.