RE: Criticism of criticism: The beginning of discussion and argument
My Answer to this question; what if?:
The answer is that What If is the judge.
Lets take for instance, every body, who believes the existence of God and fear him enjoys this world now even with those who do not believe. The both(those that trust in existence of God and thos that do not) can make money now, have sex, build house, drive cars, have a job, have children, have families, earn their living. Infact they have all things partaining to life now, but AT THE END OF THE DAY:
After enjoying this life equally, and they both die, and it happened that God doesn't exist. There is no after life. Who loses? NONE OF THEM, because both cease to exist automatically without pains. But, WHAT IF after their life here now enjoying everything the both died and it happened that GOD EXISTs? Who loses? Believe me the one that do not believe will lose and not only that, he will suffer every damn thing God says that will happened to them that believe not in Him. But, looking at things now, it does not cost him extra thing to believe now, it does not cost he that believes to believe too. Both of them can enjoy now to any extent. So, what does it cost someone to believe the reality of this concept of life according to what history entails? Nothing!. For me, he that believes in the reality of these things is smart, he uses one stone to kill two birds. My opinion
Very good input there i must confess. But you know philosophers are considered to be lovers of wisdom.
Philosophy also have no rule nor theory.... Everyone is right in their thinking!
Now if you believe so much in that which you have not seen... Just that you were told our you read in the books that it's exist and even if you do not believe is still your take and responsibility but not totally your doing.
The law existentialism suggests that we are responsible for our doing but what about that which happens to us? Is obvious that no matter who we are and how we try, there are still things that are beyond our control.
I will also like to let you know that believing or not believing in the unmovable mover is not totally your doing. It's has to do with your exposure and experience. In other words it's still not you believing but the believe chooses you to believe it
See my question; what does it cost you to believe or not to believe? If nothing for the both, he who believes is smatter because it costs him nothing to believe, and he might later gain if what he believes is real. But if what he believed is not real at the end of the day, it still costs him nothin. But he who does not believe might regret because of the consequences that might come if what he did not believe was true and real
This is what i want you to know. Maybe i should say it from the bible itself which is the foundation of your the knowledge of what you believe or think you believe
This was what Christ said the Peter. This means that it's not of your doing that you believe. What you believe choose you to believe and you can not stop believing in it because it's not within your power to do so.
Same way it is to those who do not believe. They do not choose not to believe but that which they do not believe gave not choose them.
I also know the saying that God does not choose the perfect but he perfect him that he choses.
So what's your criticism?
You are right. You are one of the few persons I have seen that have this revelation with me. Let me compliment your coment better;
Very true. So at least we have come to a point of no criticism which is another criticism. How can we have same revelation and understanding/believe of a thing that were just told but not seen,
How can we not criticize the things that look true to us? How come we are not bothered that we have come to believe?