Mercedes and Jeralt
Mercedes - Do you believe in a higher power?- I am a pretty ardent atheist. At one time I was a vagueish Christian. My maternal grandparents are Jehovah’s Witnesses, my paternal are Catholics. I did go through an edgy atheist phase, and I was a major dick at that time. Here’s my position. We do not know if there is a god or gods. We do not know which god or gods. It is therefore impractical from my position to hold any one religion or god or set of gods from any other.If we want to go any further with other vague higher concepts, I don’t believe in fate or destiny. Those have vague-ish deterministic realities with some sense of “purpose.” I am unsure of it, but I think free will doesn’t exist. But don’t confuse that with fatalism. Based on what I’ve learned about quantum mechanics, we do not live in a Newtonian World where one could be a Laplace’s Demon and deduce all fated realities. For that reason we can’t know one way or the other, so just don’t worry about it. If the world truly is deterministic then it feels no different than one with free will, and since the information of the universe ever increases we can’t predict the future...so don’t worry about it. Jeralt - What job would you happily spend the rest of your life doing?- Man, I would have loved to be a virologist. Or a YouTube educational blogger.Â
