>Start a new thread and find out!
Of course, there's negative effects to war, which are obvious. I'm just against people thinking war is entirely bad. There is a good and bad to everything. Challenges put stress on us but makes us stronger. War can be the ultimate stress challenge. But we all challenge each other in some way or another, that's life. If we didn't, there would be no purpose to life. No way or motive to overcome. Instead of calling someone "bad" as religion often does, science, specifically psychology, tells us why and lets us understand them. Lots of religious people just make up excuses so they can call someone bad or a bad guy just to challenge them. Some people deservedly need challenged in war sometimes but I don't agree with bullshit excuses or coverups as a motive for war or killing. Example, a serial murder who is constantly challenging people and the public, in general. He wants to challenge, so he should clearly be challenged appropriately with appropriate punishment. But not because he is "evil". Psychology would give us understanding of their basic self and apply appropriate measures to prevent such outcomes for their sake and ours.
I'm not a mis-driven, ignorant, and/or mad war condoner like some Republicans here in the states. Nor do I condone it and want any child to be raised in such an atmosphere. I'm just saying, it is ignorant just to call war totally bad. I'm seeing the scientific standpoint of it, not the emotional aspect. Reason before emotion. Emotional haste has made many a bad decisions in the world. Emotion tries to blind our reasoning and I clearly demonstrated that in my previous posts with my outbursts but I think a slight emotional challenge is healthy if one is emotionally mature enough to face it. I enjoy heated debate but I get carried away sometimes which I don't regret, as I said, it's healthy, lively, and light rivalry as long as no one takes it too seriously.
>dunno, but do tell me more of your intergalactic Gaia theory, please
Don't get my own theory, or perception of my reality, mixed up with the mythological ramblings of some Gaia theorists. It's just something I've come to perceive on my own after trying to find the truth about religion. At the beginning of the end of me as a Christian, my definition of God as seen through science, expanded into that theory and I've used it before to debate atheists. The universe can be seen as an intelligent entity if our very definition of intelligence is the human brain. It's simply a simple set of simple particles (atoms, molecules, etc) composed in a complex pattern that is able to compute complex problems. Well, what's more complex than the universe as a collective? The universe comprises us also as an intelligent part of it, who's to say it isn't intelligent for hosting an intelligent part of it? Just as our muscle fibers aren't comparatively complex, they host a complex set of simple particles, the brain, by feeding it by food, oxygen, etc. The same can be said about the universe. Or multiverse or megaverse, whichever the case, we just don't know yet.
But by that period in my belief, I relied upon science to back all my beliefs and in the end, I realized what I believed really wasn't religion anymore, it was really just science. And at that point, I was totally separated from a lot of other Christians in terms of how I interpreted the bible. I was also still in doubt about a good bit of other happenings in the Bible and the Quran.
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