The reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think.
Some of the things that we accept as true and take at face value are notoriously wrong.
Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean.
1. Big Freeze.
Big Freeze is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. The universe has a limited supply of energy. According to this theory, when that energy finally runs out, the universe will devolve into a frozen state.
The thermal energy produced by the motion of the particles will gradually wear out, which means that eventually, this particle motion will slow down and, presumably, one day, everything will stop.
2. Solipsism.
Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. At first, it seems silly, but if you think about it, it really is impossible to verify anything but your own consciousness.
To check this out, take a moment to recall all the dreams that you have experienced in your life. Is it not possible that everything around you is nothing but an incredibly intricate dream? But, you may say, there are people and things around us that we cannot doubt because we can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel them, right?
Yes, and no. People who take LSD, for example, say that they can touch the most convincing hallucinations, but we do not claim that their visions are a “reality”. Your dreams can simulate sensations as well. After all, what you perceive is just a product of the information processing that takes place in different sections of your brain.
As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? Probably none. Each of us can only be sure of their own thoughts.
3. Idealism
George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. Berkley discovered that some of his peers considered his theory to be stupid. The story goes that one of his opponents kicked a stone with his eyes closed and said, “I disprove it thus!”
The idea was that if the stone really only existed in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. The way Berkeley refuted this is hard to understand, especially in these days. He argued that there was an omnipotent and omnipresent God who was able to see everything simultaneously.
4. Plato and the Logos.
Everybody has heard of Plato. He is one of the world’s most famous philosophers. Like all philosophers, he had a few things to say about the nature of reality. He argued that beyond our perceived reality, there lies a world of “perfect” forms.
Everything that we see is just a shade, an imitation of how things truly are. To learn more about these ideas, read about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is a sort of the ‘Matrix‘ in its ancient version.
Plato argued that by studying philosophy, we have a chance of catching a glimpse of how things truly are and discovering the perfect forms of everything we perceive.
In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. This means (according to him) that everything – from stars in the sky to the dust under your bed – consists of the same basic material, but in a different form. With the discovery of atoms and molecules, it has been proven true to an extent.
5. Presentism.
Time is something that we perceive as a reality. Of course, we usually divide it into the past, present and future. Presentism argues that the past and the future are imagined concepts while only the present is real.
In other words, today’s breakfast and every word of this article will cease to exist after you finish reading it until you open it to read it again. The future is just as imaginary because the time cannot exist before and after it happened, as claimed by St. Augustine.
6. Eternalism.
Eternalism is the exact opposite of presentism. This is a philosophical theory that says that time is multi-layered. All layers of the time exist simultaneously, but the measurement is determined by the observer. What they see depends on which point they are looking at.
Thus, dinosaurs, Queen Victoria and Justin Bieber all exist simultaneously but can only be observed from a specific location. If one takes this view of reality, then the future is hopeless and the deterministic free will is illusory.
7. The Brain in a Jar
The “brain in a jar” thought experiment is a question discussed by thinkers and scientists who, like most people, believe that one’s understanding of reality depends solely on their subjective feelings.
So, what is the essence of this thought experiment? Imagine that you are just a brain in a jar that is run by aliens or mad scientists. How would you know? And can you truly deny the possibility that this is your reality?
This is a modern interpretation of Descartes’ evil demon problem. This thought experiment leads to the same conclusion: we cannot confirm the actual existence of anything except our consciousness.
If this seems to sound reminiscent of the movie “The Matrix“, it is only because this idea was part of the very basis of the story. Unfortunately, in reality, we have no red pills…
8. The Multiverse Theory
Anyone who has not spent the last ten years on a desert island has heard of “the multiverse” or parallel universes at least once. As many of us have seen, parallel words, in theory, are worlds very similar to ours, with little (or in some cases, large) changes or differences. The multiverse theory speculates that there could exist an infinite number of these alternate realities.
What’s the point? In a parallel reality, you may be living in the opposite corner of the world or may have already died in a car crash. In another one, you might have never even been born because your parents never met. The probabilities are endless.
9. Fictional realism.
This is probably the most fascinating branch of the multiverse theory. Superman is real. Yes, some of you would probably choose a different story, for argument’s sake, Harry Potter might be real too.
This branch of the theory argues that given an infinite number of universes, everything must exist somewhere. So, all of our favorite fiction and fantasy may be descriptive of an alternate universe, one where all the right pieces came into place to make it happen.
10. Phenomenalism.
Everyone is interested in what happens to things when we aren’t looking at them. Scientists have carefully studied this problem and some of them came to a simple conclusion – they disappear. Well, not quite like this.
Phenomenalist philosophers believe that objects only exist as a phenomenon of consciousness. So, your laptop is only here while you are aware of it and believe in its existence, but when you turn away from it, it ceases to exist until you or someone else interacts with it. There is no existence without perception. This is the root of phenomenalism.
Which of these mind-blowing theories about the nature of reality appeal to you most of all? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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What about Zeno’s paradox? What about the Nietzsche’s Eternal Return? The Myth of Sisyphus? Nietzsche’s perspectivism? Kant’s categorical imperative? Kierkegaard’s subjectivity? Jesus’ “don’t let your left hand do what your right hand is doing?” Mill’s utilitarianism, and etc…
I am of the “presentism” school. It is always ‘now’. Oh, glaciation is not the correct term. It is entropy.
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Nice! What are are some other things I can list on a comment section that show how much I know about philosophy and let everyone know I like to make statements that help me convince myself I am more intelligent than most people?
Well, those are fun theories, to which there aren’t much point in trying to disprove…but I find funny that if none of it is real, or part of our imagination, that we’re all able to see and reply to it, while forming arguments and debates.
If there is a laptop in the Living Room, and no one is looking at it, it’s still there…. even if your not aware that it is. Just because our personal awareness does not notice or see something does not mean that it’s not there. Our personal ability to be conscious of things is different from person to person. A person with a pea size awareness in consciousness has a pea size wakefulness in the creative ability of life. A person with a basket ball size awareness has a basketball size wakefulness. A person that does not know how to love is less awake, or conscious than someone who does practice to love. Love is a practice, and by practicing love our relativity in all things expands our clarity and understanding in our ideas about things. Consciousness is everywhere. It’s our relationship to our own relativity that develops the amount of wakefulness in our personal connection to consciousness.
As an Objectiist, I accept the fact that reality exists….that A = A. Magic is merely an illusion.
All of these were really interesting. Especially phenomenalism, the fact that something may cease to exist just because its not being observed completely makes my head spend round. I guess it kind of adds on to solipsism and idealist philosophy because it questions whether anything really exists as atoms and cells and matter. Thanks for posting this and making it easy to understand 🙂 btw I stumbled on this 🙂
You really think that A = A?
Suppose A = B
Multiplying by A, we get
A squared = A x B
Take B squared from both sides
A squared – B squared = AB – B squared
But A squared – B squared is (A + B) x (A – B), and AB – B squared is (A – B) x B
So we get (A + B) x (A – B) = (A – B) x B
Dividing by (A – B), that means
A + B = B
But we started by saying that A = B
Therefore 2A = A Q.E.D.
cant divide by (A-B) = 0 🙂
also, red pills do exist…but u have to find it yourself…it takes years if not decades…the hardest treasure hunt in this world….
I have a theory that time does not exist at all. The only thing we all experience for sure is the linear progression of time and it is the only thing that is not real. We experience time because we are on this tiny planet traveling around the sun and if you think about it, all of our time measurements are based on how fast the earth spins or how fast we travel around the sun. It has NOTHING to do with the universe. If you study Einstein’s space time continuum, everything that has ever occurred and everything that will ever occur has already occurred. If you think about from that perspective, “passing” to the other side at our death, eternity starts to make sense. Interested in your feedback. Thanks,
Dang you left out perhaps the most interesting ‘theory’ about our reality, i.e. Sri Aurobindo’s teachings on the evolution of consciousness and manifestation beyond our current mental stage, into the Supramental, the reigning species which will be as different from Mankind as Mankind is from Animal kind.
‘So far in our history, out of seemingly inert matter evolved life and out of matter-life evolved mind. The next logical question that arises is, ‘What is next for us? … What exactly are we to become or evolve into?’ The answer, according to Sri Aurobindo and the authors of the Rig Veda, is that we are to become conscious of the One Self that contains and pervades all-selves and all variations throughout all of time and space. Another way of putting this is that our limited mind and fragmented mental-egoic formations are evolutionarily bound to give way to a supramental, or higher-than-mental consciousness of eternity, immortality and unity. Like the seed of a flower is inherently designed to grow through various stages and to bloom, mankind is inherently designed in the course of evolution, to become Gnostic or knowledgeable of the whole living macrocosm of which each individual is a microcosm. As our consciousness evolves in that direction, life on Earth becomes correspondingly luminous, harmonious and divine.
@ Alan Northcott.. In the last line, you can not divide by (A-B) …it is actually dividing by zero and dividing by zero makes no sense. 🙂
LSD and psychedelics do NOT generally cause hallucinations in the sense that everyone thinks they do. I get so sick of people perpetuating that crap. IT IS NOT TRUE. For those wondering, the best way to describe a psychedelic experience would be “cranking your imagination to 11 and not being able to turn it off… even when it gets really weird and you want it to turn off”. Your mind reflexively just runs away with the things it is ‘fed’, your thoughts spiral deeper, and you naturally ‘study’ things more intensely than you normally do. Along with this, there are also visuals. That word was VISUALS, not hallucinations. You notice all the beautiful intricacy in the world and you’re brain is able to process many more lines, forms, and visual cues than what it normally does (this is why ‘trippy’ pictures are so incredibly detailed). This makes everything more interesting to look at because you’re able to see more simultaneously but seriously, if you’re having genuine hallucinations while tripping… you took too much.
This is ridiculous, “pound cake (however, unlike the time, a biscuit )” pound cake and biscuits have very little in common.
Time ,like all things excluding self (me, you, god) are things I (me, you, god) imposed for the purpose of this experiment. To discover more about self, therefore causing increase through influx from variations of self. Hello me its me again. I love you. We are becoming us again as we are now but not here. I get bored (that’s not the rite word but it will do) and I do this again and through this all things good occur. All occurrences are good. That’s why our one self allows ALL. I can see that already. Suffering is only the loss of good things that are not truly lost to us, but within us. Not always only within us forever though. You will be you as you again and you will run with him/her in other worlds. That’s more then I planed on saying but nothing compared to what I’m holding back. I hope this helps some.
#1 and #8 are mostly correct.
#9 and #10 are wrong, for example #10 should be “anything that’s can happen, will happen”, or anything that is possible to exist, will exist, this is very different than “everything must exist”.
The rest is just philosophy.
fictional realism is such a misunderstanding of multiverse theory. Something has to be able to happen for it to happen. every stalk has infinite branches, but there’s a stalk. Like, let’s say a guy goes to shoot a gun. He either does, he doesn’t, it jams, or he’s stopped.n no world does his gun transform into Micheal Cera. Each possibility leads more, creating infinities, but in that one moment there’s a finite (though ridiculously vast) amount of possibilities. I also don’t get the attitude that infinite worlds leads to a feeling of ‘what’s the point?’ There are other people murdering right now, but that doesn’t make your non-murderous-ness null and void. you are still the one person at the exact moment of choice you inhabit, you are a unique collection of experiences, and you still make that choice. You birth infinities, yes, but you still have free will.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic!..I say several of these divisions are not separate at all. For example, IMHO, your take on presentism and eternalism are only slightly different aspects of the same thing, of one concept: time is not real and is ever only about individuated consciousness and its focus/attention. In fact, there are teachings from various perspectives that exists which say a person’s ‘reality’ is the “focusing of infinity,” as one (re)source words it. That everything already exists eternally, always has & always will. But we, being human beings, in the way that we are human in ‘this world,’ in what appears to be this world, are so time obsessed that, generally, we cannot imagine timelessness…Also, back to your article post, I tend to see the multiverse theory and fictional realism as one and the same thing as well…I could go on and on about this subject but I’ll start winding it up for now by paraphrasing words shared by one of my favorite wisdom keepers. This is what he offers: these are our thoughts and (the part of it I can quote for sure) “the universe is our body.” Meaning all of us as individuals make up the only one thing that truly ‘exists.’ And that *Imagination* is the source of form of the source of our experiences….He & many other wisdom teachers, like Neville Goddard, often refer to the idea, in one way or another, that even though we live in a world of form(s), it’s really Imagination and also formlessness that ‘need’ more of our attention. And not only might we benefit from expanding our definition of what it means to be a human being (world of forms). But we may also benefit and make life better for ourselves and others by considering that mind/consciousness/awareness of being does not necessarily have a form (again, formlessness) at all…for those with an open heart and who are looking for a next step or a leap in the possibility of understanding, easy to find on the internet are writings re: “The Song of I AM” + also “The Song of Before I AM” which have to do with the beautiful teachings of Nisargadatta. His wisdom, for anyone who tends towards the integration of understandings from various spiritual/metaphysical/mystical belief systems or religions or spiritual practices, they might find these writings helpful….Blessings..♪♪☆҉↘‿↗⁀☆҉♪♪
nice post ,, ^^
If phenominalism were real, wouldn’t we be able to simply will any object we desired in to existence?
#8 is actually an incorrect interpretation of the Multiverse Model of the universe, as there are actually three. The one referenced here is known as the “many worlds picture of quantum mechanics”. However, there is also the “bubble/baby black hole universe model”, and the “membranes and extra dimensions theory (also known as “string theory”)”.
On that note, #8 and #9 both fall under the “many worlds picture of quantum mechanics”. They should not be separated at all, as this so called “fictional realism” is not a separate branch of multiverse theory.
i am the 10th one
In the end, it may be that Humans will never have the experiences or even the imagination to really understand the universe or life, and reality or the reality of time! But if we finally come to realise these things, will we still be humans? Or will we then be just another Super Race in a specific part of the universe? By then, our mentality surely, and our intellectual capacity, should have changed! Maybe, by then, we will be able to read each other’s minds and should not need to hate each other anymore!
Ahh, the comments only further prove man’s inability to TRULY comprehend “infinity.” Yes, a gun could, in-fact, turn into Michael Cera in some given universe…who is to say we haven’t developed the ability to transpose objects, and a freak accident occurred on his way to work at the coal mine? Any limitation you put on it is due to your own ignorance. Where do you draw the line? Is guns-into-people the only limitation? What about guns-into-fruit? Is that ok? Is that acceptable in your multiverse theory? Sigh…this is why man will never accomplish as much as you might expect before we cease to exist. Oh well…
dumb as fuck I want to know what these philosophers were smoking.
I feel that there’s some confussion with the Fictional Realism. Well, I’m no expert in this topic, but I’m pretty sure that the fact that there are infinite universes doesn’t make possible the existence of Frodo and Superman. Infinite≠Everything. An example: the quantity of numbers after number 4 is infinite, but every number before 4 is parto of that infinity.
I mean, is NOT part of that infinity.
While these ten theories are mind blowing and have some amount of truth in them, my own study over the past twenty five years has made me believe that the real truth is within us. The entire universe is within us. All that we see outside can be witnessed inside…. The external is illusory while the internal is the Truth…
I quit reading after #1 because the author(s) don’t understand physics, thus lacking competence to discuss these topics.
The Universe has a finite amount of energy, but this energy never disappears. However, because the Universe is expanding, this energy will spread over more and more space, making the Universe approach absolute zero, at which point no interaction between matter or energy will take place.
What if, as the comment above me has stated, the universe is expanding due to the “big bang” and will continue to expand for a while, until gradually all the masses and space of the universe have a pull on each other such that they will all come back once again into a huge dense ball of matter. Then some form of combustion allows for a repeat of the “big bang”. and the universe repeats this process for all of eternity??
There is no such “Heat loss law” like the 1st threat suggests. There is however, a Law of Conservation of Energy which states that, energy (heat) never dissipates but merely is transferred from point to point and in fact can not disappear.
Fictional Realism is in no way a certainty. The set of Natural Numbers is infinite but it does not contain all possible numbers. So infinity does not imply the presence of every possibility.
Phenomenalism is a balls up, coz if something ceases to existed when you look away where does it go, ull say it CEASES to EXIST! well then why when i look back does it come into existence again. i think we need to re-think what Existence is if we are truly considering this
These are the lame, freshman year theories of Philosophy. Philosophy gets a lot more fun and complicated past this.
No. 2 is so me. Since getting frequent migraines and not enough sleep, everything seems less real. I sometimes find it hard to believe that anything else exists at all. So I don’t know why I am telling you this…. a message in a bottle perhaps.
So what? Maybe we are bacteria inside the itestines of an alien’s dog. Big deal! Bills still have to be paid. Food has to be acquired, prepared and consumed. Babies are still born and people still die.
Anyone who wants to sit and play with their pet theories is, of course, free to do so, and we are free to ignore the functionless rants.
All these theories are nice and pretty and all, and I’m sure intelligent people have thought and thought about them… but why do we come up with so many theories for reality? What are we searching for when we try to explain what reality is, if it’s real and if we can actually experience it? Some of these theories seem to have truth in them, and I must admit others seem really ridiculous and far stretched. I think we are searching for the meaning of ourselves, classic questions like, why are we here, what is our purpose, is there God and if there is do we need to serve Him? Or if there’s not God then what causes things to be as they are and keeps the universe running properly? Science, maybe? Those fundamental scientific laws that create the bounds for what we see as reality? Well, the thing is we only discovered those laws, we did not create them, and we are, in fact, subject to them. So, where did they come from? The “Big-Bang”? Where nothing exploded into everything and over billions of years began to come together and be more complex until you get the infinite complexities of today’s lifeforms? Yeah, I’m sorry, but that does not seem likely… what is the problem with considering that an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God created everything from nothing? I mean, He is God. Every action must have a cause, yes? So the action of our universe exploding and forming everything we know must have been caused by something, namely, God. That makes far better sense to me than a vague nothing, suddenly and inexplicably exploding into the universe… and there’s so much more I could go in to here, but I won’t.
I think the reason we do not want to consider God in our theories and our debates and our problem solving, is because we DON’T WANT to be subject to Him. Because if there really is a God, and He is the Creator of this vastly complex and amazing universe, then surely he is much more vastly complex and amazing… think of an artist and his work, the work says a lot about the mind of the artist, and if you know the work but not the artist then you may presume things about him or her; but when you meet the artist and get to know the artist, their work becomes so much more meaningful because you can see why the artist made the work that certain way. Well the universe is God’s art, He is the Master Artist. (Have you seen a sunset? or a beautiful mountain? or a nebula in space, or proteins in cells, flowers and all number of amazing creatures?? Artist’s work??) The existence and work of God perfectly explains “reality” to me. when you read the Bible (sorry had to get church-y on you guys) you are discovering who God is, because He wrote His Word to us so that we could know Him,(and there are scientific truths written in that Book, truths that man at that time could not have known, by the way). Go to the Bible and see for yourself, God’s theory of reality is MIND-BLOWING! Because His reality is true in every way, He’s God, He created it. He also answers our hypothetical questions I mentioned at the beginning, He gives us purpose and meaning in life. He tells us how this all began and how it will end. He tells us of His plan for humanity and His deep, deep, love for humanity, that he does not want any of us to be separated from Him, and He shows us how not to be separated from Him. He has made this universe with specific laws that govern the times and seasons, He literally holds everything together (Colossians 1:17) Hello! Strong nuclear force… anyway, these theories are fine and all… but I would like to propose that all our questions can be answered by God, and our theories can be based on who He is, because He is God, He is our Creator, He holds even us together, all our atoms and molecules, He is waiting for us to respond to Him so that He can begin to really show us amazing things about Himself, ourselves and our world.
Okay but what about Logos? I very much enjoy the idea or concept of presentism…. I enjoy the concept of living in the present. On the other hand, with eternalism, I do very much believe and observe the idea that time and situations are relative to an individual’s mindset orrrrr disposition or demeanor, in that I feel that while being present in a situation it’s up to the observer to discern how to perceive whatever incident is taking place, if that makes sense. And as far as the brain in the jar perspective is realized or debated, well, I mean, you can really only accept reality. That which is, is. On the other hand…. reality can only be interpreted using your five physical senses, which brings us back to: that which is, is. So you must determine for yourself if you would prefer to live in a universe where you accept the laws that govern that universe or whether or not you can allow yourself to indulge in escapism. Overall, this is an extremely interesting article. Thank-you to the op for the introspection.
If your parents don’t meet… You’re still born one way or another. You can’t change what happens by changing the past, fact.
If Solipsism were true, the theory of Solipsism would be a theory of my own. Brought from the dark recesses of my mind and surfaced onto the bright, hallucinatory screen of my laptop – comes a spark. The bright light of truth, finally finding its way into my consciousness. Making its presence known and liberating me. Everything in the universe, every fact, theory, speculation – all mine. I watch as the world spins by. The universe swallows me whole and I know at once that I made this. I am God. I am freed from this pseudo-existential state, this limit of mind and with this newfound freedom, I can do anything. I can wipe out the rape, murder, hunger, poverty, and violence that I so plagued my world with. I can end the world and start anew with the sharp flick of the mind. Everything is spinning. I am flying. I am free. There is no pain, no suffering, only color and thought and beauty and the unknown and the all knowing and me. I am creating new disasters and new miracles everyday. I am ruining my life, I am blessing my life, I am killing my neighbors, I am giving you cancer. I bring upon a new plague: I offer knowledge. I forget remorse. I forget happiness. I know nothing and I know everything. I am God.
About «Eternalism»
«If one takes this view of reality then the future is hopeless and the deterministic free will is illusory.»
Not at all. If all fifferent times exist simultaneously, it doesn’t mean that the future is already decided, it means that if you change in the present, you also change in the future. All is one.
This makes a lot of sense and doesn’t break any law of physics.
it was a breakthrough in 2010 conventionally that matter exists parallely in two or many different places.certain scientists on the secret level of things are able to transport matter from one point in space through to another instantaneously.they have had this technology for many years now.
Very interesting!
Nikki, the problem with the concept of an all-powerful, all-knowing God who made the universe is that it negates the possibility of free will and brings to mind some pretty disturbing questions. If God is indeed all-powerful, then at the moment of creation “He” necessarily knew everything that would ever happen because “He” is the maker of EVERYTHING. He is, in effect, the director of this sprawling movie we call creation. If that is true, then one must question many of the beliefs of Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc. For instance, how can we believe in the concept of Heaven and Hell and the notion of being saved or damned, knowing that if Heaven and Hell do exist God created them? And since “He” is all-powerful, the fact that there is a Hell means “He” created billions of people knowing before “He” even created them that “He” was going to damn them to Hell. Of course, the Christian/Muslim/Jewish concept of God might simply be completely wrong-headed. God may very well exist, and probably does, in some form that humans are incapable of understanding, but “He” most certainly is not the God that most religious folks conceive of.
I like the phenomenalism view. My laptop ceased to exist when I ceased to interact with it. It began to exist again when a thief began to interact with it and stole it. I could not make it exist again because I could no longer interact with it anymore. Wow! Phenomenalism really works!
Nikki, just out of interest, if you believe that god must have created the universe because it couldn’t have come from nothing, then where did god come from? You may say he just is, because he is god but that is only an answer if you believe god is a magical (to our current understandings) being. Why deny the possibility that maybe the universe is just “magical” itself then? It would make just as much sense. The truth is that belief in god is your perception. Do you really believe that we were presented with a handy manual to existence (the bible)? What makes that easier to swallow than any of the above theories?
To Nikki and your God. What is completely wrong in your thinking is that your beliefs are based on thoughts by people thousands of years ago, so you as a human being who’s been created by God you are talking about are refusing to do what you’ve been created for: TO LEARN.
The concept of god is present in a number of these theories of reality, but you just must hold on to your Bible and are afraid to step outside your little shell.
If you actually read at least a bit of what science has achieved and what philosophy has achieved you would understand that a lot of these theories (and one can see it in this article listing them) tend to have one conclusion, whether explicitly or implicity, that there probably exists only consciousness, i.e. one super-consciousness and we are an intrinsic part of it, i.e. we are that god. What outdated religion makes of you is a helpless little maggot, which fits well with the religion’s archaic aim to have power over other people – nothing god-like in this objective.
So please go away with your comments pleasee. They are ignorant. Even if something like god exists, it is the whole totality of the universe, the whole totality of nature, and it is us. It means we, which is the same as god, can do anything and can make anything real. Now that would be the ultimate love by such god to make us realise our own power. Your definition of god was created by many human beings with many deficiencies – think about it.
Excellent questions for Nikki, Tasha!
have you evaluated evidential Christian apologetics? hard to refute.
These theories about the life are very interesting. When we think for a while we could understand that they are true. Thanks for this post