Asking of the Designer what we would of any other designer (The atheist delusion)

by whateverist , Friday, July 29, 2011, 23:52 (4654 days ago) @ xeno6696

At one time I would not have said so but I now find it just as compelling to understand my subjective experience as I do the external world. I needed to understand how it could be that I can seemingly adopt any stance I wish and yet find myself drawn to defend some positions over others. Where do my stongest held beliefs come from? The same applies to all preferences. Why do some books/movies move me and others not? Why do I find meaning in some activities but only alienation in others? All of these hint at a self that is not up to me because it is me. So where does that come from and how come there are such marked differences in how all this is expressed in various individuals?-Personally I find the question of our collective origins a fait de compli. We're here so there must be a story of how that came to be. I wouldn't expect it to be easy to track down but it is interesting. -I find the prospect of a creator god very suspect. Nothing points to that for me. No intuitive likelyhood whatsoever. Occam's razor says a mystery supported by another mystery itself shrouded in mystery is most likely much ado about nothing.-I do consider the question of deity to be a separate question from that of a creator. That there might be transpersonal 'entities' which vie with one another in our innermost beings seems much more plausible, though not something I think about a lot. Deity does not imply all knowing or all powerful or the fount of everything. That is a very extreme formulation and one I easily reject as too unlikely.