I’ve always had a weird mental process when I can’t find something. The moment I genuinely give up looking and decide to make do with something else or get a new one or whatever, I’ll turn and look directly at the thing - usually within a second or two of making that decision. This happens so often, I believe it’s a mental process where part of me knows where the item is all along, but doesn’t let the informtion rise to the surface because that part of me is enjoying the search. Then when I get sick of looking and sincerely decide to stop, it means the game is over and I’m allowed to know where the thing is. Not a psychologist but I wonder if there’s a clinical term for this.
It’s His own fault for bothering with all that divine hiddenness silliness.
If you could prove “God” existed that’d be lame and boring. The uncertainty is what makes it fun.
It’s fun to hate your neighbors for having the wrong Invisible Friend and be afraid they’ll show up and kill you in your sleep. Always a blast!
The uncertainty is what’s caused dozens of wars and oppression. Without which, history lessons would be really boring. This is much better.
Many religions and ideologies are pretty fine with uncertainty.
It’s pretty much only monotheism which claims certainty and kills you if you say you have comments about their “facts.”
That’s because anthropologically, realism is pretty new. The idea of a single objective truth to encapsulate the whole universe was an idea invented by the Romans. And everyone knows what the Romans did to religious diversity in Europe. Most cultures in the history of the world have to some degree acknowledged the subjectivity of perception and the self-contradictory nature of “objective truth”.
I’m part of a political movement that opposes Roman/Abrahamic style realism. We believe it’s the cause of the crusades, slavery, the nakba, the holocaust, the witch trials, and all of history’s other greatest atrocities. True freedom will only come when we are free to perceive differently than those in authority. To live in a different perceptual universe.
Like this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism
The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine."[7]
I’d argue it’s the people who are so “certain” that they’re right who are generally instigating the atrocities in the modern day.
He spontaneously prayed again right after finding his keys, so I guess he did become religious?
If praying is all it takes, he was religious before as well.
