Belief - repost

[andrewducker]

Question three was borked. Rewritten to actually cover all the bases, and not be internally contradictory. Apologies to the 7 people who already filled it in!

[Poll #1427776]

Comments

[andrewducker]

Negative proof is definitely impossible. We can only prove that we have not found the magic password to turn off the holodeck _yet_, not that we are not living in The Matrix.

That do you?

[cdave]

Almost. Even if we _did_ find the password and turned off the holodeck, how would you know that it was not just the programmers in the Matrix messing about with you.

[andrewducker]

Well, we'd know that our original world had a God, but we wouldn't know if they were The God.

The problem being a need for a definition of "God"...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The problem being a need for a definition of "God"...

I like "culturally postulated supernatural being", myself. It lets you include anima and the Buddha without including psychics and UFOs, which conveniently matches up with the most-common definition of "religion".

[cdave]

Ooh, how's about Ignosticism?

Just found that.

[andrewducker]

Interesting one! Thanks!