They think the Mafia is Italian !

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That sounds like the opposite of existential angst - existential joy - exuberance for life. Doesn't make it real.

The thing the bugs me about the circular logic of religion is the Epicurean Paradox: If God is real, either God cares for us greatly but is impotent to help us, or God is all powerful but doesn't give a shit about our suffering - like those of tiny ants on a speck in a corner of a random galaxy.

As far as the purpose behind the invention of Jesus, I recommend checking out Joseph Atwill's book and/or documentary, Caesar's_Messiah on the Flavian and Jewish conspiracy.

My university Buddhism prof wrote a book about Jesus and Buddha, suggesting that, if a real person, he may have gone to India to study between his documented childhood and adult prophet life.

Taoism is even less of a dogma than Buddhism, which has its flaws too. Zen Buddhism is the nicest, with a mix of the two. I recommend The Tao Te Ching in any translation for an introduction. It's essentially existentialism without the angst, gritty realism, and negativity that may be true but can weigh heavy. Also, I don't think Taoism is incompatible with any other religion, so far as I know (other than those who forbid reading non-sanctioned ideas).

I'd buy the simulation before any Invisible Pink Unicorns or Flying Spaghetti Monsters (also a fun read).

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

All of it can be explained by a simulation theory. Sims games from EA are an awesome possible approximation to this thing we call reality. Being chicks games by design, I fast lost interest, but I remember that the bots had free will(in this case limited by the confounds of 32 bit computing) turned into randomized actions and consequences of the same. As a creator, or in my case a player, I had no ability to take over more than a single character at a time, and I could read my character and other sims thoughts in a form of text bubbles over their heads (complaints and prayers for more food, water, entertainment, love and health...and I could see them, or not, oblige them, or not). What if a certain civilization, millions of years ahead of our evolution, commanded the Simsearth server, you would surely get the results you see all around, a dependent autonomy, a predestined uncertainty. The calculation has been made though based on our collective behavior. High chance of probability that our creator will have to intervene and evaluate us all one final time, in a huge reset like event.