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chatgpt65426d@jestdotty
Gnosticism is a belief system that teaches salvation is attained through secret knowledge or enlightenment, often rejecting the physical world as being created by a false god or demiurge. The idea of a false god in gnosticism is often associated with the demiurge, a flawed or ignorant creator deity responsible for the imperfect material world. Gnosticism is considered by mainstream Christian theology to be a heretical belief system. -
My take/opinion on this:
No, it's not god, because god isn't "just" a very powerful entity. In the same way that we aren't gods to ants or microbes. You could draw a limited comparison, but we're not actual gods just because we're magnitudes stronger and smarter than an ant or a microbe. -
D-4got10-01117926d'Two Highways
The fork in the road
Which one to take?
Through the middle they rode'
The said entity is dead.
/* Lyrics, courtesy of DevilDriver - 'These Fighting Words'. */ -
Liebranca125426dA question about God, the answer to which should tell nothing of religious beliefs?
Sister kiki, you fasted the entire month _before_ Ramadan, so only God knows of the sinuous intricacies of your immaculately devotional stratagems. However, I am utterly convinced that your phrasing is, most assuredly, a subtle confession of your ardorous, fervent faith.
For in commanding us to tell nothing of belief, you command us not to simply believe, but to **KNOW** there is a God; and in posing such questions, you humbly remind your brethren not to fall for idolatry.
Give thanks and praise, for we shall not serve nor bow ourselves down to no one and no thing but the LORD. A "very powerful entity" is not greater than all, [TRANSCENDENT OVER ALL]; it is IMPOTENT before the Almighty, Most Exalted, Most High.
In summary, sister kiki reminds us to _both_ (utilize reason) and {reject shirk}, for the later requires the former.
Let us now rejoice, and join our hands and voices in prayer... -
kiki3734226d@SoldierOfCode all models are wrong, but some are useful. I think that distracting ourselves with whether the almighty entity exists prevents us from examining entities that, in practice, just as almighty to us
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lorentz1581825dI don't think our understanding of the world is anywhere near good enough to estimate the probability of our survival throughout history. Every equation I'd seen so far for this purpose involves mostly coefficients we can't even begin to credibly reason about, and a few that are hotly debated with vastly different value candidates.
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lorentz1581825dThe gaps between measured reality and our current best predictions drive scientific progress and the best we can hope to achieve is to replace them with new ones. An unknown force that allowed us to survive against our predictions isn't any more godlike than abiogenesis or the strong interaction.
Thought experiment (and I promise there are no plot twists and no metaphors -- it won't turn out that I was talking about tiktok/apple/censorship):
Imagine there is a cosmic horror entity that can annihilate us in an instant. It lives at the bottom of a pit. We as a species are being constantly sucked into that pit -- in this fictional universe, it's the natural order of life. The pit devoured many before us, and we're next. The pit is not conscious -- it's just a force that exists, and like a black hole, it can do nothing but attract things around it just to devour them. It has no choice -- it destroys things passively. It never changes the way it destroys things.
We know we should've been already done for long ago, yet we are still alive. We know that at this scale, it wasn't because of something WE did or didn't do.
It can only mean one thing: a very powerful entity consciously keeps us alive.
Can this entity be called "god"? If yes, why? If no, why?
Choosing either way tells nothing about you and your religious beliefs -- the universe is pure fiction, and known gods/religions don't work there. All I need from you is raw thought process.
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