Would you want to know? What happens when you die? Why you are here? How did we get here?
Would you really want to know the truth?
2007-07-09 01:40:08 · 30 answers · asked by Wayne Kerr 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Of course I would want to know, and so does everybody else. Any person saying they would turn down your offer is a liar, as surely nobody would decline an explanation to life.
Can you imagine the conversation?
"Do you want the truth of life itself, complete with proof?"
"No, sorry, I don't."
Um... It wouldn't happen.
Any person asked this would be all ears, if only initially to humour the questioner.
It is in human nature to be inquisitive and seek answers to the unknown, so I can't see anybody walking away from somebody offering true knowledge (whether they were sceptical or not).
Though people may be ignorant and follow their own views religiously (in both a religious and non-religious way), human intrigue and gossip beat ignorance every time.
2007-07-09 04:42:22 · answer #1 · answered by This is my username 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's start the proof with "God is Love." At least we can all believe in love and stop all the arguing, showing that 95% of the arguing is over words. No ones definition of God is adequate, in a way, since no one even knows all love. Why don't we start somewhere as the whole point of the law is for man to live in peace and harmony and not divisions. "Love fulfills the law." In fact "All things are lawful, not all things are profitable." Arguing is not profitable, working together is. We have some serious problems and instead we study rocks. Scientist study atoms because they say that's because atoms are "quantifiable" and real problems are not, I guess. Actually the mind thinks in images which can handle complexity in a way math cannot. If science only studies half of life, isn't "half a truth often a whole like"? Using the left brain, the quanty analyzer only, is half-brained and little heart. Maybe if science were put to better use we might not have to die since up to nintey percent of illness is being due to stress, attitude, hate instead of compassion.
2007-07-09 09:06:25 · answer #2 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You couldn't provide that proof till there was a global agreement on the definition of God and the attributes of God (omnipotence etc) I would be interested in any attempt anyway and would want to know the "truth".
2007-07-09 11:11:28 · answer #3 · answered by Raccoon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Questions like this represent the spiritual and intellectual exhaustion of modernity in both its theistic and atheistic forms. At the heart of the matter in your question and your commentary is not truth, but certitude-- which is an illusion that holds modernity captive in its own forms of dogmatism and is expressed in its preoccupation with a voluntarist conception of God.
In terms of the life of grace, God takes the initiative, and the demand of grace is found by awaiting it with confidence and acknowledging it with gratitude. God gains nothing that he would not already possess in our acceptance of grace and loses nothing in our refusal. The spiritual life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery which encompasses the entirety of existence itself.
2007-07-09 09:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question... Star!! There is a lot of insight here.
Everyone thinks he/she alone knows the right answers or at best simply believes that no one can ever have an answer... basically on such questions, we somehow end up with a closed mind....... it is almost impossible to find anyone who has an open mind on these questions.
2007-07-09 09:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We already have all of the proof of God's existence. I dont live in the what if world but i do live by faith. Look it up on the net. 101 scientific facts that God is real
2007-07-09 08:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by lulu 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
wow, what reactions, your question really hit a vain.
Me, I already have proof. I already know. But I am always in the market for truth and more information.
tell me what you think and I'll weigh it.
2007-07-09 12:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by Dr weasel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I believed you knew the answers, if I believed you had proof of anything of the sort, I'd have to believe you'd be somewhere other than on Yahoo QA asking the question.
2007-07-09 08:45:20 · answer #8 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definitely not! if you told me that god exists, then I would say "Oh no! I will go to hell because I am too sinful" but if you told me that god didn't exist, then I would say "All that time wasted on churches, prayer and worship". I would truly be happy if you did not tell me the existence or non-existence of god. ignorance is bliss
2007-07-09 13:42:58 · answer #9 · answered by JennieRose 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you could, why wouldn't you? Oh, I do know the truth, but I can't tell you, sorry, I promised to keep it a secret.
2007-07-09 08:47:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋