What do you think of the 'Parable of the Invisible Gardener'?

Question

If you never read it and are interested in doing so, you can go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Invisible_Gardener

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- Not sure what in the world you mean by this, it is a story, a thought experiment by a person, a human being. What the hell are you talking about?

Answer 1

Were they growing pot?

I would have loved to have heard the Believer's response to that last question. Surely there must be some rationalization to explain the invisible gardner. LOL.

Answer 2

I always felt it was quite a comical and revealing tale for the fate of faith. The assertion of the gardener is reduced to absurdest meaninglessness after his presence is generally ruled out. To escape the confines of repeatable data, rationality, and observation, the faith believer perverts their original hypothesis to ridiculous lengths in order to still evade concession. Because of their refusal to reasonably discuss the information and observations at had, and their unwillingness or incapability to abandon their original assertion, the believer flees from falsifiability and into an emotional safe zone. Concession needn't rain on anyone's parade. Not when your belief is so far gone and meaningless that it can't ever be effectively refuted. But, at that point, what epistemologically appropriate reason is there to believe said proposition? Shouldn't we fit our beliefs to be proportional with the evidence? How dubious can the believer become?

Answer 3

That was the second chapter. The prolog of the story is that in the beginning, there was no field and no gardner. And there were no people.
Suddenly, a person appeared that believed he was created. Then another appeared, that believed he simply appeared. When asked where they came from one said God the other said I don't know.
Suddenly a field appeared, but only the believer in God saw it as a heavenly inspired field, the other saw it as earth. One believed that God would take care of him. The other didn't believe anything.
Suddenly a gardener appeared and a bag of seeds appeared. One said the gardener and bag were from God the other said he did not know where the Gardner and seed came from. One said he had faith God would feed them, the other said there is no God. They farmed the land with the Gardner and ate well for many years. One believeing in God the other not believing. ----
Comment: One believed in God and was fed knowing all along he would be taken care of. The other ate well for many years and did not care where the garden came from. In their minds both were right. Both believed what they wanted and the sun shined, and rains rained and all lived happily. One day one said after we solve the mystery of the invisible gardener we should plan for when we die. One said I will go to heaven and the other said he would die.

then move to your chapter----

Then the final chapter.

They both die.

Comment:
The answer is that it only matters to the believer and the non believer what happens next. Because we cannot know. But from the fact that we had a field, a gardner, a believer and an atheist one can draw his own conclusion as to whether or not there is a God. And it does not matter what one believes unless one wants the daily pleasure of thinking he will go to heaven some day.

Answer 4

You mean when its like sowing good seed in a field and during the night it seems as though someone has sown some bad seed?

Actually used the line just the other day. Its true too. Being a biz owner I know its true.

Answer 5

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