Nambo wrote:
aghogday wrote:
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Nah, from what I personally see, humans are the only animals 'smart' enough to spend their time denying the obvious ALL around them.
Amazing how culture can blind a human being, both in religious and anti-religous way, at least to me, as I see with eyes wide open.
Whilst your comment is true, that wasn't the purpose of mine.
My point being that the environment the Giant Tube Worm inhabits, and its intellect in comparison to man is multiply times less than the difference between the worlds of gods and man, never mind the difference in intellect, yet IF the Giant Tube Worm were to have such a debate in a hypothetical sense, how easy would it be for them too "Prove" man doesn't exist?
I think the key is neither the Giant Tube Worm or man can see, respectively as such, man or GOD as anything, respectively as such, but Giant Tube Worm or man.
It's hard enough for some men to see women and some women to see men as anything other than polar gender opposites.
And a big part of that is due to intellect, culture, and originally complex language.
The flea makes his living off the dog, but need not know his master, but never the less, without the master there is no flea.
So using that as metaphor, atheists in this metaphorical way are fleas, as well as folks who try to put chains on dogs, as fleas or men living on GOD, fundamentalist Christians as well, who amusingly try to put chains on GOD.
And yes, your metaphor makes complete sense to me, as it's hard to prove the existence OR NON-EXISTENCE of something one cannot see.
Humans while often handicapped by intellect, culture, religions, and complex language, are special in this way, as they do have some ability to see deeper into truth than other animals do, it certainly seems.
And the truth and GOD are one and same to me, as well;) as Mother Nature True..2.:)
But more than likely all of this is gibberish to the 'typical' atheist walking the street, as the inability to see deeper than the literal in life, is truly, in my opinion, the inability to see GOD2.
So yes, in this way it is a self-fulfilling prophecy to NOT SEE GOD, wHere change is possible, but impossible withOUT change in attitude of emotions like belief, faith and hope, to forget an old path OR WAY, and FORGE a new path AND WAY to greater enlightenment as full human being, with all intelligences, including physical, emotional, and existential intelligence fully released and at play IN SEEKING RATHER THAN full STOP.