1. Believing in a fully explained reality in which u are surrounded by individuals that feel the same.
or
2. View the world objectively leave no subject unexplored base opinion on scientific process. Most in your enviornment do not agree with you.
answer honestly.
2007-07-25 17:22:04 · 34 answers · asked by otis spunkmeyer 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
um I guess this reflects the current state of america I clumped agnostic w/ atheist
no 3rd option for you!
2007-07-25 17:34:08 · update #1
"What is more stupid, a person who worships a God they can't see or a person who is offended by a God they don't believe exists?"
2007-07-25 17:27:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
# 2 is happier.
If the person in # 2 really looks objectively at the evidence he will undoubtedly come to the conclusion that the person in # 1 is a close minded person since he surrounds himself with only those that agree with him. The person in #1 is most likely an atheist, and the person in # 2 a Christian since # 1 will not seek the truth but clings to his atheism and # 2 explores the scientific facts and comes to the conclusion that God exists and therefore he needs to obey him. Case in point, Mr Lee Strobel was a serious #1 . Lee was an avowed atheist and a hard core skeptic. He went about to disprove the existance of God, and the validity of Christianity. He objectively left no subject on the matter unexplored and based his opinion on the facts he observed. He is now a # 2, a born again Christian. He is the author of the Case for Christ and the Case for Faith. I dare you to read either one of these books.
Come to Christ!!!!
2007-07-25 17:38:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"leave no subject unexplored"
I don't believe any subject is or should be protected from LogicReasonExploration.
I don't "base opinion on scientific process"
I base it on LogicReason.
"Most in your environment do not agree with you"
Are you saying the majority is always right?
So how come you got from believing the earth was flat to a sphere and all the other bits of info that changed cos people got to realise science wasn't all Alchemy, Smoke, Magic, Mirrors and other BS.
Watcha doing playing with this evil technology?
Shouldn't you be nailing a heretic to a cross somewhere?
Oh, by the way, I'm happier cos I don't have to waste time appeasing some mythical Imaginary Sky Chappie.
2007-07-25 17:37:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who would be happier? That's hard, bc to live in an environment where most don't agree with you would probably be quite stressful. The first alternative seems rather bland, with not challenges, bu then the person wouldn't know there was any other way. I hate to think it would probably be 1. but to answer honestly...I think it would depend alot on there individuals personality type. A loner would probably be fine with 2.
best I can do! I'm just glad you didn't ask where I myself would be happier. That would be more difficult to truly be honest.
Fantastic question!!!
Blessings,
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-07-25 17:29:51 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a scientist, so my answer is a second option. I also believe that most people in the world prefer the first answer. Running through life like a horse with blinders on isn't a very safe journey ( in my humble opinion anyway). I will bring as an example our American President and a government he surrounded himself with... and decisions they have been making about our lives...
2007-07-25 17:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by ms.sophisticate 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are referring to the "Ignorance is bliss" argument which I do not subscribe to. ("Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." - Thomas Gray)
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
— Hungarian proverb
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950)
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.
— Clarence Darrow; (1857-1938)
2007-07-25 17:25:09 · answer #6 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It seriously depends on the person. Some are very happy with option one, and some with option two.
As for me, I am happier now that I have an open mind, rather than a fearful mind.
2007-07-25 17:27:29 · answer #7 · answered by Meow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, i dont really agree with either. i am open to both opinions/and what ppl believe.
people who believe in their fully explained reality are probably happy with themselves and that they follow what the bible (or other) tells them they are supposed to do
and
people who like to believe in the scientific process are probably happy with themselves that they can understand how the world progessed from nothing to what we are now
I happen to live how i choose to live, and i am happy hearing all the ideas people have, both god and scientific
when i went to a catholic high school (for the first time i had no other religion before that) we took an annomyous survey and it asked who believe in evolution and who believed in god and over half the class said evolution
and.. suprisingly i cant remember which i said
2007-07-25 17:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by kimmy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2. The universe is never fully explained. But science has come a long way in exploring the answers.
2007-07-25 17:41:09 · answer #9 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'd rather be the second. i hate being surrounded by people that can't think for themselves, argument is the basis for thought and i would hate a world in which i didn't need to think. i'm a problem solver, comes w/ the nair genius I.Q. if everyone agreed i'd be bored to tears all the time. it's why i'm against religions (not spirituality mind you!)
2007-07-25 17:25:17 · answer #10 · answered by Ian F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I choose 3! Live in a world being fully explained yet also reinforced by science and my perception in which I am happy with these people.
2007-07-25 17:25:01 · answer #11 · answered by Justin S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋