[Opticom]

Entertaining answer, but he never actually answers the question :



So (and this applies to Theists as well as Atheists) what is your answer ?

[Sindri]

42

[Keno 92]

7

[kylith]

Then I'm wrong. If there is a god I'm sure it'll forgive me for not believing in something there was no evidence for.

[Dades]

You'd need to elaborate. Wrong about which religion?

Some deities are a little more insecure and petty than others.

[MagicMarker]

Have I been transported 6 years into the past?

What kind of answer are you expecting OP? Who gives a shít if we're wrong? I'm not going to believe in the existence of something just because I might be wrong in thinking it doesn't exist.

Frankly, it's a retarded question.

[oldrnwisr]

Originally Posted by Opticom

So (and this applies to Theists as well as Atheists) what is your answer ?

[Sindri]

If I was simply wrong and there was some omnipotent supernatural "God like" being or whatever qualifies as a God?

Well then I would have to at least acknowledge it's existence.

[Galvasean]

Pascal's Wager strikes again.
I think opposition to the wager can be summed up in a Simpsons quote (is there anything they can't do?):
"What if we picked the wrong religion? We'd just be making the real God madder and madder."

[endacl]

Originally Posted by Sindri

If I was simply wrong and there was some omnipotent supernatural "God like" being or whatever qualifies as a God?

Well then I would have to at least acknowledge it's existence.

Damn. That's what I wanted to say...

[Aidan_a]

My philosophy (please bear with I'll get to your question in a minute) is that nobody knows and and anyone who's says any different is talking ****. What you do know however is that you are alive right now and you might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
But the whole idea that humans are super to other forms of life and will live forever doesn't really click with me. What makes humans so special? And afterlife for eternity, I would go insane after a few billion years of boredom. I think I would rather be mortal and I don't know I think everything has a beginning and an end, nothing lasts forever.

Anyway, if i'm wrong, no big deal, then I wake up in an afterlife, there's a god who tortures people in hell for eternity, I can't respect a person/ god who would do that to anyone, not a mind worship it.
But anyway either way i'm not scared of death at least not right now, maybe I will be when I get older...

[Opticom]

Originally Posted by Dades

You'd need to elaborate. Wrong about which religion?

Some deities are a little more insecure and petty than others.

Wrong about your particular belief / non belief, whether that is about your own particular religion (if you have one) or Atheism. I don't expect everyone to have a same answer, I don't think there is a right or wrong answer either, I expect everyone who's thought about it, will answer it in their own way.

[kippy]

Originally Posted by Opticom

Wrong about your particular belief / non belief, whether that is about your own particular religion (if you have one) or Atheism. I don't expect everyone to have a same answer, I don't think there is a right or wrong answer either, I expect everyone who's thought about it, will answer it in their own way.

You believe what you believe/you don't believe as the case may be. There's no wrong. It's not an exam.

[Opticom]

Originally Posted by Galvasean

Pascal's Wager strikes again.

I didn't intend for it to be about Pascal's wager, it's just a question, not which is the 'best' bet, or 'best' answer.

[oldrnwisr]

Originally Posted by Opticom

Wrong about your particular belief / non belief, whether that is about your own particular religion (if you have one) or Atheism. I don't expect everyone to have a same answer, I don't think there is a right or wrong answer either, I expect everyone who's thought about it, will answer it in their own way.

I don't think you get the point Dades is making. Let's say that we take atheism as an example since we're in A&A. For those of us who are atheists, if we're wrong then there must be at least one god. Now before we even get to the difference between mono and polytheism there is a big difference between Yahwheh and Loki for example. So it would help to answer your question if we knew what god you are proposing to exist in this hypothetical scenario.