Saturday, 14 December 2013

Demons anyone...?

On forming my beliefs in life one concept has managed to escape my logic and reasoning abilities....demons and possessions. I don't believe in this stuff,I watch things on t.v and I see these Nigerian pastors 'casting out demons'. It gets hectic, but I'm not sold on it..not for one second even. I just can't bring myself to believe it because I cannot explain it, it might make 'sense'..but it's not logical. If a demon really wanted to ruin someone's life, why don't they just kill them..? Why take them through a life of strategic induced suffering ? Are they rules of war or something? I don't get it, and why does the pastor always win? Surely he should also be defeated on some occasions, no?

Another thing that I've thought about is what about the Catholics and their exorcisms..? It's made me think for a while, because it has been happening for a while, well that's what they say. I'm still a firm believer of science and logic, cannot believe in something that i don't think makes proper sense to me. I know I do believe in astral projection and different astral planes, O.B.E's and all so that would make room for both positive and negative entities maybe? And for generations civilizations have had a concept of heaven and hell, the underworld...Hades, Tatuarus etc so surely there is some solid basis for all this stuff..idk hey. Regardless here is a cool quote I found on the topic.

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It is well documented that people do get possessed by Demons. What is your explanation. Do Atheist even believe Demons? Just curious. Not trying to flame war.
Did you ever hear of Multiple Personality Disorder?

It's where people appear to shift in and out of different personalities. A long time ago it was thought that these people had different personalities "stored" somewhere in their brain. Now, it's thought that personality doesn't exist in one area of the brain but is spread out in different sections and is a collection of parts. So, you can't have more than one because there's only room for one. Anyway, it's thought that these different personalities are a form of extreme role playing that the person employs to cope with life.

Normal people tend to adopt roles to please others or make things go smoothly. For instance, you probably tend to talk to mom differently than your friends.

So, people who have heard of demons and have a stereotype for how they behave adopt the role to get attention, punish their family, and so on. If you think that sounds hard to believe there's people with eating disorders who will starve themselves to death over family issues and of course people commit suicide too. Thus, acting like a demon isn't that strange.


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Friday, 13 December 2013

Delight in thinking. ..philosophy book

Reading a philosophy book, figured id post up some quotes from the book and anything it leads me to read. I recently attended a few philosophy lectures and i think it was honestly the greatest academic experience of my life. 

The power of logical deduction, critical thinking and mental exploration are amazing. I really enjoyed it. I think that had I been born a few hundred years ago I would have been similar to Socrates. .. a heretic B-) .
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Delight in Thinking- S Hales, S Lowe.

On Moral Philosophy:

D> Ethical egoism: the idea thay each person ought to pursue his or her own self interest exclusively.

D> Psychological egoism: a theory of human nature that is concerned with how people DO behave,  not how they should.

Q> "Men lose their high aspirstions as they lose their intellectual tastes,  because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them,  but because they are either the only ones to which they have access,  or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying...."

Q>" As philosophers we want good reason for our beliefs and we ought to approach religious claims in the same spirit of skeptical,  critical inquiry as we would claims of the supernatural occult. "