(2024-03-09, 08:58 PM)David001 Wrote: Since a lot of people encounter timelessness outside the body, this may mean that we ourselves have gradually designed our bodies rather than a god! The point is that groups of interested souls may work on this project and observe the end result. Note that this totally eliminates all questions related to theodicy. Maybe we started out without bodies and have gradually invented a physical world in which we can pretend to be physical for a while.
David
I think this would quite the leap in assumptions though, that all evil can be explained away because this world is essentially "virtual" in that it has no real consequences within it?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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