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Simplicity?
I believe it is C.S. Lewis who used the metaphor, when we look into the human cell it becomes more complex, so religion should not be easy, because easy is simply the slackers solution.
I was pondering it and I came to the conclusion that the explanation for the world is to simple through atheistic views, random probabilty and random events causing existence and the shape of history is the simple slacker solution, there needs complexity.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
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Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior. B.F. Skinner
complex is good. but you have to start with the simple to get to the complex. you cannot start with the complex, cuz that will mean that you have the answer. in reality, you have to start with the most basic idea and build on it. so the people who have simple ideas are not wrong. they just haven't thought about it. it does not have to be because of laziness. it's just that not all people have the same mental capabilities.
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complex is good. but you have to start with the simple to get to the complex. you cannot start with the complex, cuz that will mean that you have the answer. in reality, you have to start with the most basic idea and build on it. so the people who have simple ideas are not wrong. they just haven't thought about it. it does not have to be because of laziness. it's just that not all people have the same mental capabilities.
Well said, well said indeed.
At one point in time, there remained less than 1000, humans upon this planet. It is through developing tools of ever increasing complexity that we have survived and prospered. If everything were simple, then human's would not be the only dominant species. Also, many current dilemma's would have been solved. A good philosophy is to employ simple solutions in some situations and in others employ complex solutions. In essence you must search for the middle and never go to the extremes.
I agree with MercifulBoss. The extremes are never good, you have to stay somewhere near the middle. It seems to me that simple solutions/answers are usually only a temporary fix, but to actually solve anything, whether it be a philoshophical ideal or a problem, you need to think about a complex solution for it. Many simplistic solutions just seem that they've been ruled out already.
I'd have to say 'god did it' = more simple than evolutionary theory.
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Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
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Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior. B.F. Skinner
Simplicity?
