meol

Admins are still people; humans with hopes and dreams of their own, and most importantly, empathy. Why not send someone a short PM?

I never really understood why there is so much animosity against furries. Everyone has fantasies of one sort or the other, anthropomorphic animals are in no way different in my eyes. An it harm none, do what ye will.

The injuries ended up killing the owl. OT: All kinds of animal abusers.

Sorry, Admon is the best I could do, and it's already taken.

So how does this thing work? :unsure: I think I'll stay in OT and debate philosophy and stuff.

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Atomic radioactive decay merely creates an illusion of randomness, as have the other examples. It is easily predictable precisely because it follows a definitive pattern - just because we haven't fully analyzed the specifics of the causation doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm not sure. But you raised my curiosity. I'm going to talk with a professor about this. Even if chance is ruled out (which I'm not convinced of, since the anthropic principle gives us a huge "luck boost"), you are still jumping to a sentient creator. What if the cause is somehow naturalistic? Unless you would call that God. I mean a a god "who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings". The creator of the Universe needs not care for us, or have created us, or have created the universe for our sake. This hypothetical god that created the physical constants and set the universe in place needs not have created consciousness and "given us" intelligence. To see the world around you and marvel is only natural, but to think it was made all for you is not only arrogant but also illogical. Even assuming there was such a creator in the first place. Are there any religions that do not believe in a soul?

Well, there is atomic radioactive decay, which is random. And I think some quantum effects can be described as random in some objective sense, but I'm not sure. But anyway, I don't really understand what you actually mean by "random chance". We don't know if there was some causality (with or without a creator) behind the beginning of the universe, and it's pretty inane to assign probabilities to this universe having the constants it has, or to life arising in a planet, since we don't know whether there are more universes or lifeforms out there. Then, just because it would be too improbable, it does not follow that a creator (whose existence and complexity is yet to be explained without cop-outs) must have then created the universe. And what if we assumed that the beginning of the universe was too improbable and it must have been created by (a/several) god(s)? It's still a gigantic leap to say he created it did with humans as the pinnacle, no, as the very purpose of all creation. Or that these curious meat beings were endowed with an immortal, immaterial soul that is to be judged by their actions, and rewarded or punished for an eternity by a an all-loving God. Or that he'd care at all about us -we might just be a curiosity in the huge symphony of astronomical events he created for his own delight-.

And you're bound to win the lottery if you keep buying tickets, right? Maybe not you, but someone is bound to win the lottery, yes, just as life would have appeared somewhere. Neither you nor the Earth are special a priori. The reason Earth and nature constants seem so perfect for life is that life adapted to the environment, not the other way around. Isn't it a bit arrogant to think that everything, from the supernovas where the iron in your body was created to the constants that define physics were especially designed and created so that a group of apes could tell another group about Jesus?

Well, the fatty acids from fish are healthier than the saturated/trans fats in "redder" meats, and can be a nice source of protein if you cut out other meats. And it's not that drastic of a change so it should be easier. Go for it. :thumbup: