Ask Lemmy

I value and believe in honor, which feels countercultural these days.

I value the story. If something good happens to me, bad happens to me, as long as it's a good story that's ok.

I wanted to write something but let's say basically star trek. 😂

I have recently comes to term with my faith. I grew up missionary Baptist and it wasn’t charismatic or anything but even as a kid it kindof feels ridiculous and I started to just try to take the moral lessons and that’s all. Science and astrophysics have always interested me at a hobbiest level but it wasn’t until recently the way it all works it quite beautiful. I am fully atheist but it’s all so ridiculous I would accept a God somehow started this all, but not really. Explore approachable science books, podcasts, and YouTube videos (and other federated stuff, if it exists). It is so fucking miraculous we exist in this vast empty void that (at the same time) is unimaginably large. Our planet and life is a miracle. Even if microbes exist out there, the fact we got to the point of “reason” is crazy! Any tip of quantum physics rules one way or the other and the universe is something else entirely. The way atoms come together and how we use them today is a species is miraculous. Humanity could really do anything if we were convicted enough. The whole “we are made of star stuff” is also quite deep when you go through the whole cycle with it. We are quite literally the universe somehow scraping itself together through energy, time, and space to culminate (for now) in some piece of itself that can question itself and move indepdently, reason, etc. Dope. If there is any reason to be good to one another is that we are soooo special. All life. And this planet! Hippy status activated. I don’t know if this changes my behavior but it can be some good feelings to pocket for rainy days.

I used to feel like I had this all figured out, then I got older. All I know for certain is that I'm not often certain these days.

I'm an apatheist, if God exists, they made the universe how it is. If they don't exist, the universe just is how it is. All we can truly know is what we experience while we're alive. So the unanswerable and unsolvable question of God or God's will isn't worth debating. Just do your best, try not to hurt other people, and find what peace and joy you can while you can.

We are the adults in the room. If God exists, they don't interfere with their creation in ways we can observe. Laws and moral codes only have the power we give them. If we don't hold people to them they're worthless. There's no provable divine wrath, so it's up to us to make things just.

Everyone understands this on some level, but it scares the snot out of some folks. The idea that every individual human is in some part responsible for the fate of the species is just too damn BIG. Everyone rationalizes and fantasizes this away to some degree, much to our detriment.

Randoml stuff:

There's nothing shameful about an ordinary life.

Organized religion is rarely done right. Most often, it's simply a way for people who fear being unexceptional to feel better about themselves. Far too often, it's about control.

If you want people to join your movement, temper your moralizing with practical demonstrations of how it's in their own interests.

Helping people support themselves wins more goodwill and loyalty than charity.

Garbage men, utility workers, health care, and teachers do far more for your quality of life and the success of the nation than police and military and we should treat them like it.

A progressive and inclusive civic-mindeness is what seems to be missing in so many areas of our lives. Be proud of your community and work to improve it.

So, so many problems are solved by letting go of the idea that we must be productive members of society and just giving people homes and food.

Offline and analog skills have real value in the present, not just in the apocalypse. Learn them, share them, and teach them for their own sake.

Literacy is the life's blood of human progress. The measure of how great we are is our wisdom, not our technology.

Violence should never be necessary, but some people will force your hand. What you do at that time is up to you. But you should try your best to prepare for it ahead of time.

The self is less than real and this has implications. We're a network of dreams, projecting people and every other constructed interpretation of physical reality. It would be nice if we got better at it.

People's religiom does not matter, only the political emanations from it (hello catholic church or Pie X brotherhood).

Capitalism was better than feudalism, does not mean it is a gool thing for humanity. Personnaly, I lean in between anarchism as an ultimate goal and communism to fight big companies before anarchism.

yes my fellow lemmians what are your personal beliefs and opinions

If art doesn't have a message and is 'untitled' in a museum. Its not art, its practice. It does not belong there.