andrea cornell

Davis wrote:
Will it happen in our lifetime?

Hopefully not.  I agree with many of the posts in the original conversation that expressed the opinion that such a button should not be used. I agree with that opinion in principle, though I think that its use on certain US political leaders could be tempting.

Indeed. We will, unfortunately, remain totally in the dark and swim in purposeful speculation, until someone invents that big red button. Will it happen in our lifetime?

Davis wrote:
People would look at sacred buildings and percieve them just as we do now with Roman and Greek Ruins or the Pyramids or Mayan temples.

Yet We are aware that those buildings were built by, for the most part, theists of some flavour or another.  If I don’t remember ever being a theist and nobody else remembers ever being a theist but…[Read more]

how do you think that people would explain all the Bibles and Qurans and churches and temples and such?

People would look at the holy books in the same way they look at Shakespeares play or the Illiad or Zoroastrian books.

People would look at sacred buildings and percieve them just as we do now with Roman and Greek Ruins or the Pyramids…[Read more]

I know this thread has been dead for nearly two years, but I can’t help but wonder why nobody brought up the obvious (to Me) question: If the button removes belief in God, and the memory of belief in God … how do you think that people would explain all the Bibles and Qurans and churches and temples and such?  And what would the paid clergy…[Read more]

That would be something incredible. Imagine suddenly losing free will (or per some…the illusion of free will). If we had memory of free will…then I suppose our lives would become similar to passively watching some kind of film while still experience the emotions and sensations. Creepy thought.

SteveInCO wrote:@Davis

I am much more sympathetic to outing a politician than a preacher, because only the politician can be an agent of force (as you touched on). But it had better be a politician that really goes against the group he’s fighting (gays, atheists, whatever). Occasional pandering speeches is one thing, I’ve never known a pol…

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Agreed, cased closed, unless perhaps God Himself has a Free Will on/off switch that still works. (Please don’t elaborate on the implied paradoxes… I’ve said too much already.)

I think we all think we think we all want Free Will, without the red buttons.