What's your view on the universe, do you not believe we are merely objects or robots?
2007-01-04 05:32:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm just trying to understand how most people think. There are many 'religious' Materialists out there. I mean, people that follow a religion but put more value on materialistic 'truesures'. Consciousness is good, but i seek a higher consciousness and i have tasted it and that is why materialism seems 'stupid' to me.
2007-01-04 05:49:15 · update #1
Life is life which does have a special quality. We are conscious and think so I don't know that I completely agree with your characterization. At least I wouldn't word it that way. I think that consciousness is wonderful and I highly recommend it.
If you mean do I think that there is anything terribly special like a soul-then no I don't. We die and we are dead--gone forever.
You can get into a whole other discussion if you want to know could we move our consciousness into a machine. Because we are getting to where the computing power will be there in 20 years if it is possible. I have heard it advocated that this might be the ticket to immortality. That one I honestly don't know. I think we can, but that is really a guess.
2007-01-04 05:42:56 · answer #1 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During a theological detour, I figured out that atheism and materialism don't necessarily go hand in hand. There are naturalist theologians who aren't materialists, H.N. Wieman, for example.
2007-01-04 13:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe we are animals. I'm sure that there are many atheists who are not materialists--the only thing we have in common is a disbelief in any deity.
2007-01-04 13:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zero. If you don't think that everything in the world is the result of material interactions, then you believe in supernatural, so you are not an atheist.
2007-01-04 13:38:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
from what i have learned they are materialistic people that only care about them selves no matter what they will tell you[ want to get everything they can before becoming trees or dirt or a butterfly should i go on]
2007-01-04 13:38:34 · answer #5 · answered by THE WAR WRENCH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not robots we are llife.
We live to reproduce.
That is what life does.
2007-01-04 13:36:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
how many christians are not retarted?
2007-01-04 13:36:19 · answer #7 · answered by dino_ou812 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋