By definition, there can only be ONE God. And by extension, there can only be ONE religion. All religions can't be right. But all religions can certainly be wrong. In fact, scientifically, NO GOD
CAN EXIST IN OUR PHYSICAL REALITY, WITHOUT DESTROYING THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
There have been 6 crewed moon landings between 1969 and 1972. We can even see the 3 lunar rovers that we left there from the earth. Are these facts, also just a conspiracy?
Elvis IS dead, and is buried in Graceland. Just ask his doctor, family, close friends and relatives, who all had to ID his body. Are all these people lying as well?
Aliens either do not exist, or they do. If they do exist, then we should be knee-deep in them by now(Fermi Paradox, Drake Equation).
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Belief is the total absence of facts. Many people choose belief over facts, because it affords them the protection from ever being proven wrong. This is the domain of the deliberately ignorant. No matter how strong your beliefs may be, without facts, they will crumble under the slightest bit of scrutiny. You can believe all you want that you can fly, or travel to some enlightened world, by just using your mind. But in reality, you will still have never left the ground. No matter how strongly your belief may be.
You've got it backwards. Beliefs don't matter in the presence of facts. The more facts you know, the less you need to believe you know. Beliefs will always be conceptual, while facts will always be perceptual. It will still be a fact that dogs have fleas, regardless of your beliefs. Maybe you can provide an example of where FACTS don't matter, regarding your beliefs?
Clearly you don't. I was speaking about perspectives. From the moon's perspective, your existence is totally irrelevant to its existence. But from your perspective, the moon can only exist if you do. This is because all of reality is subjective, from your perspective.
Dogs having fleas is a fact. Whether you exist or not. Or, whether you believe or not. Quite cogent and relevant.
Stating that dogs have fleas, is a broad fact. In respect to what? The type of fleas, or the percentage of dogs? What other stuff?
Should we be arguing human issues based only on beliefs? Now THAT would be a true waste of time.
We live in a universe where if we drop ink in a glass of water, it will spread out over time, and eventually fill the glass. This is consistent with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Which says that systems will gain disorder(entropy) over time. The ink does NOT unfold backwards in time. This order to disorder, defines the direction of time. Yet we can physically move through space in ALL directions, but can only move through time in only one direction. Maybe time exists as an emergent property of the entire system. Emergent properties are things that don't exist as individual pieces of a system. But do exist for the system as a whole. Here are some examples.
A picture in a picture puzzle does not exist, until all the pieces are put together. A water molecule does not have a tide. But the whole ocean does. A movie creates change through time by creating a series of still images. These images will appear to continually change, if we flip through them fast enough. This is the emergent illusion of time passing, that our brain system creates for us. NO individual still image contains time. It is an emergent property for the entire system. In our universe, the passage of time is real and in one direction. But our individual perception of time is only an illusion, relative to our passing through spacetime. In fact, we have no conception of past-time at all, do we? Can you conceive of any passage of time, between the time you fell asleep and woke up?
Again, my two cents worth.