Religion is a useful model
"All models are wrongSome of them are useful"(aphorism in statistics)Belief is in your deedsLet's observe first that we can never contain the whole complexity of the world in our brain. In most situat...
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A secular God concept
All that is goodIn a first approximation, God is a catch-all concept about everything that is unexplained about the world and human life. Such God concept is consistent with most religious beliefs tha...
The God concept
Let's start by observing that most civilizations and individuals are developing a concept of God or Gods, even without outside preaching.Polytheistic religionsAncient Greeks and Romans had many Gods....
Religions are (Software) Operating Systems
It is hard to live without a religion. Each religion comes with its set of APIs, for blessing and cursing, for forking a process child and for being sure a dying process doesn't become a zombie. Relig...
Morality and killing
Killing is morally wrong universally, for most people adhering to a moral system, right? What about killing an aggressor that tries to kills hundreds of people in your community?Suddenly that killing...
Evil as striving for a local maximum
Let's observe first that we tend to attribute evil when there is a sufficient capacity of understanding the consequences of one's actions. A small child that produces a tragical accident is not consid...
Hell
Being burned in hell for an eternity is not the worst that can happen. Even worse than this, for me, is to be entirely washed out from Existence. Burning in hell looks pretty painful indeed, but it st...
On "Metaphysics of Quality" of Robert M. Pirsig
"It's more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than to allow the germ to kill his patient. The germ wants to live. The patient wants to live. But the patient has moral precedence because he's at a highe...
We believe in a compressible Universe
"Believe" is often associated with religion. However, even for using the "scientific method", we are forced to assume certain qualities of the Universe that we cannot prove nor fully verify. The most...
Two ways to pursue happiness
Intelligent people learn to adapt to environment, unintelligent people adapt environment to them (popular joke) 1. Change the outside Few people can be happy when basic needs are not met. When you a...