• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    “Yes. You’ll understand when you’re touched by his noodly appendage. Ramen!”

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    a “religion” is just a very elaborate model that’s used to describe and predict the world at some point. we’ve replaced theology with theory, but the core concept stays the same.

      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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        Hey c’mon now, that’s erasure of the plains peasants, the forest peasants, the mountain peasants, the island peasants, and the swamp peasants

  • p3n@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Religion aside, if the universe is fundamentally unpredictable, then science is impossible.

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    Ironically, an individual who uses language to identify with and articulate a particular sub-category of human belief systems (i.e. atheism), is attempting to impose order in an indescribable universe.

    • an_onanist@lemmy.worldOP
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      It depends on your definitions. Religion puts nonexistent intentionality into the system by adding a diety. Science explains the existing system using the language of mathematics.

      • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world
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        Except science doesn’t explain the existing system. Science is the process of converting observations into language and indentifying reliable repeating patterns. It does not explain why.

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        Any description of existence would:

        • be based on a limited perspective and at best incomplete,
        • be in the form of language which is only a representation of the real thing,
        • only describe the mechanics of existence and would not answer the essential ‘why’.

        Existence is indescribable. The best description of life would be a non-verbal and direct felt experience, not words. Language providedes structured communication between perceptions, in other words: control and order.