Ask Jappleack
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- Posted: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:53:50 +0000
If you believe, in what scenario would you disbelieve?
If you disbelieve, under what situation would you believe?
I think under a situation people can and will change unless they have brain damage.
For instance, a god lets say that is different from your god shows up, different from any god. In this scenario most people would change their belief or disbelief. The only ones that might not would be the ones who happened to be open to the idea that god is not what they expect. Which is probably a number of people smaller than atheists. Probably a fraction of agnostics.
Then, even agnostics could be surprised if theres something extremely bizarre they did not expect. But agnostics seem the most likely to not change, if they are unbiased agnostics anyways.
So, which scenarios, not necessarily extreme ones either, would cause you to change your belief or disbelief? Or suspension of belief, if agnostics could be termed that.
Is it possible for us to not be surprised, even if a god is real?
For instance, the god you worship behaves similarly to how the legends go, but in person you never expected the exact atmosphere, the exact behavior, the exact look. Technically, or arguably, surprise is impossible to avoid even when correct about something you have never experienced before.
If you disbelieve, under what situation would you believe?
I think under a situation people can and will change unless they have brain damage.
For instance, a god lets say that is different from your god shows up, different from any god. In this scenario most people would change their belief or disbelief. The only ones that might not would be the ones who happened to be open to the idea that god is not what they expect. Which is probably a number of people smaller than atheists. Probably a fraction of agnostics.
Then, even agnostics could be surprised if theres something extremely bizarre they did not expect. But agnostics seem the most likely to not change, if they are unbiased agnostics anyways.
So, which scenarios, not necessarily extreme ones either, would cause you to change your belief or disbelief? Or suspension of belief, if agnostics could be termed that.
Is it possible for us to not be surprised, even if a god is real?
For instance, the god you worship behaves similarly to how the legends go, but in person you never expected the exact atmosphere, the exact behavior, the exact look. Technically, or arguably, surprise is impossible to avoid even when correct about something you have never experienced before.