I asked my dog, Duffy, "How do we make sense of life?" He bought a ball to me, dropped it at my feet, rolled over onto his back, and gave me his How-about-a-nice-belly-rub look. He did the same thing when I asked him "How do I attain enlightenment?". I begin to think he's just messing with me.
What it does is lead people to imagine themselves as seeing from god's eyes. Like we are all just pets in god's aquarium and terrarium. God was chilling, drinking bears and said "Ah ha, I think I shall have pets and make a place for my pets. They better behave, etc." Then the almighty blob pops another beer and all hell breaks loose. The idea of "outside of space and before time" means that this almighty blob that people IMAGINE must exist because they imagined it. It is word salad that doesn't make sense. Imginable maybe, but no, not really. You can imagine it only if you forget what time and space mean altogether.
Trying to find a meaning in ancient biblical accounts that cannot be demonstrated to be factual is even worse than trying to find a meaning in accounts that can be demonstrated to be factual. I have never been under any pressure to accept claims that cannot be demonstrated to be factual. I do not accept 'meanings' that can't be demonstrated to exist.
I’ve studied philosophy for years, including taking courses from Oxford, Harvard and Yale. You are spot on with your initial analysis. My first thought ran to Ludwig Wittgenstein and what my Oxford professor was fond of saying about such questions. “I suspect the professor is in need of some linguistic therapy.”
86 and 99 were in the Garden of Eden? 86: Don't tell me we ate the apple. 99: We ate the apple. 86: I asked you not to tell me that. (and that's how they unleashed the KAOS on the world)
When I was 6 years old, life made sense because I watched the "Six Million Dollar Man", where the head of the OSI was Oscar Goldman, played by..... Richard Anderson.... Anderson.....
I responded to a different video today (maybe last night . . . memory and I aren't on the best of terms) talking about God creating evil. I came to the conclusion that God likes to cosplay as Satan, and he has to launder His costume every once in a while. After all, as my wife noted, "God separated the Dark from the Light -- because that's what He always does when He does His laundry."
@@vestafreyja, depends on what's going on. If He's getting ready for revenge, He washes His Satan suit in cold water. If He's just up to mischief, it's warm. But if His wife catches Him mixing fabrics, it'll be in hot water.
Life is what it is. It all works fine without interjecting magic. Because “sense” is based on how something compares to known facts, and life as we know it shows us all the known facts; therefore, life comports perfectly with the known facts, as this is where we observe them. The answer is, “Yes. Life makes perfect sense.” It is similar to dropping a rock and asking, “Does the falling of this rock seem like something gravity would do?”
A god floating and boating about in a sea of non-entity? Coalescing and organizing so as to ZOT an entire universe into order/entropy/enthalpy? Yep, that is a mighty tall order for a proto-ancient nascent cluster of god-i-ness from disorderliness. You’re right, a bit of a problem. =Peace=
Yeah one of those battles of chaos was the invisible sky wizard fighting a five-headed dragon or something like that. Does anybody remember that cartoon used to come on Saturday morning in the 80s called Dungeons & Dragons.
Great video as usual. Another PragerFU gem. There is no doubt that the Christian theology makes about as much sense as a waterproof sponge. However, life makes whatever `sense` we make of it. Including adopting senseless theologies. `The meaning of life is to give life meaning.` I'd argue we all do it, whether we know it or not.
You don't need to remind me. I already subscribed to Mr. Anderson and watched *all* of the stuff on his channel (easy to do,as he's fairly new on YT). He's a lot of fun.
I have a BA in Philosophy. This question is just max cringe to me bc it’s the kind of question that uninformed people think a philosophy course would be like. But no serious philosophy course should start with a question like this one.
The thing I liked most about philosophy in college is there was no "wrong" answer; the teacher had to give me a good grade because she couldn't tell me my opinion was wrong; it's MY opinion.
"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?" It's not so much about the question as it is about the dialogue Dorothy has about the question. I love these posts. 😁
I remember that Prager video. Mr. Anderson didn't even get to his main point, but it's all downhill from here already. It's even funnier that you basically derailed it before he even got there, too. Nice job.
the fact that we are all here, despite the _possibility_ of evil, is testament to the fact that the vast, vast majority of humans are decent caring people - even the ones we disagree with will (generally) look after their own, we would not be here if the vast majority of people didn't take care of each other - to say "this life is filled with an immeasurable amount of injustice and suffering" just cannot be true.#, this life is filled with people *_who care_*
People care because that’s how you survive a place filled with an immeasurable amount of injustice and suffering. Otherwise, your species goes extinct. I’m looking at you, homo habilis.
🎼So here’s to you Mr. Anderson Jesus’ isn’t real for those who know, Whoa whoa whoa God bless you please Mr. Anderson- Heaven isn’t real, and there is no soul, whoa whoa whoa 🎵
or c) there is a god, and our universe is a failed experiment that said god tossed in their garbage can shortly after it began... so has no clue we exist...
*What exactly, is the value of an **_"eternal life"_** ?* What does one do with an eternal life that lasts not millions of years, or billions or trillions or quadrillions or quintillions or sextillions or septillion or octillion, well lets just say, _without end ?_
Why, you get on your knees and sing praise songs to a deity responsible for making you and saving you so that you can sing praise songs on your knees. Can't say "thanks" enough you know. The deity has a big ego and he knew, in advance, that he would make it work this way because .... well, he jealous of gods made of stone and wood.
They don't really care about "meaning". And honestly, most of them would have never asked "what is the meaning of life", if they hadn't heard it from somebody else. It's all about getting an eternal life in paradise. They just can't deal with death. They like to believe there is more, that they will still exist, that the next life will be nice, that they will meet their deceased loved ones again.
this explains all why owen asks this question Dr. Owen Anderson is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and a faculty associate at Phoenix Seminary where he teaches Philosophical Theology.
Once again, very well done. You do an excellent job of explaining the absurdity of religion. I wish my atheistic self could go back in time and tell my believing self to drop guilt ridden Mormonism and enjoy a good cabernet with friends and family.
it's crazy that we have to point out how daft the stories are, when you say it "god creates a perfect place for adam and eve, but there's an evil snake, how'd he get into the garden?" it's clearly not even a children's story.
The only way life makes sense is second hand. Life makes intelligent beings that can construct logical systems. Life literally made logic. Of course when he asked if life made sense, I have little doubt that despite his claims on teaching philosophy, he was appealing to emotions and intuition. And since Mr. Anderson works with PragerU, I'm sure he is more concerned with making cents, than making sense.
JHVH (Jehovah, Yahweh, Jah, etc.) - is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good, and incapable of error Also - created Adam and Eve, bade them not eat the forbidden fruit, and cursed mankind when they disobeyed him. - allowed mankind to prosper in sin, then took a mulligan and killed everything except one family and two of each animal. - created Lucifer, and then created Hell to punish him and the souls of the wicked. - became mortal in the form of Christ, only to suffer horribly and die, to redeem the sins (of those who believe.) All, apparently, with perfect foreknowledge of everything that would come to pass. Does any of that make sense?
Somehow I suspect that Mr Anderson's loaded question is predicated on a nonsensical ...er... *sense* of the word "sense." It isn't meant to enquire if the existing conditions seem to be conducive for biological activity; nor even the existence of the human race. It seems more akin to a statement in the form of a loaded question, in which 'life' is the series of events for an individual person between birth and death, and 'sense' is a value judgement wherin value acrues to the extent that conditions for life and the events within it are orchestated to revolve around ME; to placate MY ego; to satisfy MY petty desires. I've got a better question Mr Anderson. Does the universe owe you anything more than the opportunity to live your life, just because you happen to exist? Or... Shoud we as humans expect the conditions of the universe and the events that prevail to cater to our whims and whines by placating our egos and having the decency to be all about US... to revolve around US? Gods and their religions are the exact kind of manifestations you'd expect from the egocentric minds of people who's concept of 'meaning' is derived from self-centred, self-important narcissism. *A little limerick from the perspective of Mr Anderson:* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The world might revolve around my God, But he makes it revolve around me. He gives my life value and meaning because, He lives in my head rent-free.
@@JaniceinOR There once was a man from Australia. Who's poem was not a complete failure. Though a limerick you say, Should go aabba, The lyrics were prone to regalia.
Wait... eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil makes your children morally impaired? By... knowing good and evil? I kinda feel like that needs a little more lantern hung on it, it kinda gets lost in the shuffle of the evil being that the all-knowing all-good creator made and then that deity's need to power-wash the planet.
It is even worse. First what loving parent would stick a dangerous object near their kids? Second the punishment is at odds with god's rules he informed the Israelite's, punishment should match the offense (eye for eye etcetera) and somewhere in the bible god says the sins of the father are not visited on the son (not sure about girls) at least after a few generations, that have certainly passed since the myth of Adam and Eve..
@@tomschmidt381 Plus, Jesus supposedly freeing us from sin still somehow doesn't make childbirth not painful? That's _one of the original curses the god of Genesis levied for sin._ It's a good thing he was only here on behalf of humanity, I'd hate to have seen how botched all the snake leg returns would have been.
@@stan1027 How many times, read it watched the TV show, heard some of the radio show ( didn't air here ), found the American movie to have totally missed the point. Why do you think I haven't read it? The question was given in the 2nd of the trilogy ( only 5 books in the trilogy )
@@axeman2638 Yeah it kinda does, if you look away from all the overwhelming evidence for the Big Bang and BTW Einstein didn't coin the term Big Bang. Or do you mean Albert Einstein didn't exist at all? "sounds like einstein and the big bang." Six small words, a name and still so much wrong in this little sentences 👏👏👏
@@mads5000 lol, the big bang never happened, and Einstein is nonsense that's not even mathematically correct. Overwhelming evidence? roflmao, the CMB is an exercise in data filtering to achieve a predetermine conclusion. and the work of Halton Arp (Hubble's pupil) shows that standard interpretation of red shift is wrong. That's the so called evidence for the big bang, nothing. Stop just believing what you are told and go and look critically at the subject. Try Eric Lerner's book, the big bang never happened to start.
Life makes sense from the point of view of physics, which at least has a chance of describing *SOME* of the phenomena we current experience on this planet and in this reality. Thing is, though, trying to make sense of a planet of nearly eight billion people, each with their own POV, interests, needs, and drives strikes me as a task which would have Sisyphus saying, "To Hades with that noise" and go back to his rock. And that's not even considering the illogical madness which is religion!
@@misterdeity I always thought the greek myths were so much more entertaining than anything in the bible. Sheesh, nailed to a tree for a day when you know you're coming back and then living in paradise? And they think that's immense torture? Clearly they never read greek god punishments.
@@Troubleshooter125 And for that matter, all the people saying "Crucifixion is the most terrible torture" sort of sayings. Like, how could anyone actually even know that? What's worse, starving to death, burning to death, drowning, or crucifixion? How do you measure that?
I asked my dog, Duffy, "How do we make sense of life?" He bought a ball to me, dropped it at my feet, rolled over onto his back, and gave me his How-about-a-nice-belly-rub look. He did the same thing when I asked him "How do I attain enlightenment?". I begin to think he's just messing with me.
Those are the best possible answers!!!
You're just missing his point. It sounds like you need some enlightenment.
As long as you throw the ball and rub his belly before enlightenment and continue to do it afterwards, you will have attained true enlightenment.
Before, enlightenment, rub belly, chop wood, after enlightenment, rub belly chop wood..
Very wise dog.😊
Life wasn't making sense until I found MisterDeity. Brian is my favorite philosopher.
Awww!!! 😊
As I told the florist, "Stop making scents!"
I believe THEY would like to say: STOP MAKING SENSE!
When I was a teenager, life made sense because I watched Night Court, where the court judge was Harry Stone, played by
Harry Anderson....
Anderson....
"Outside space and before time" never makes any sense to me.
What it does is lead people to imagine themselves as seeing from god's eyes. Like we are all just pets in god's aquarium and terrarium. God was chilling, drinking bears and said "Ah ha, I think I shall have pets and make a place for my pets. They better behave, etc." Then the almighty blob pops another beer and all hell breaks loose. The idea of "outside of space and before time" means that this almighty blob that people IMAGINE must exist because they imagined it. It is word salad that doesn't make sense. Imginable maybe, but no, not really. You can imagine it only if you forget what time and space mean altogether.
Another excellent summary of the crazy myth. Thank you.
Trying to find a meaning in ancient biblical accounts that cannot be demonstrated to be factual is even worse than trying to find a meaning in accounts that can be demonstrated to be factual. I have never been under any pressure to accept claims that cannot be demonstrated to be factual. I do not accept 'meanings' that can't be demonstrated to exist.
Christianity makes more dollars than sense.
There's a mint in Philadelphia and Denver - now THAT makes cents.
99 and 86 ( Maxwell Smart ) toke me back a few years and made my wife ask: "Why are you with that stupid smile in your face?"
Is this a Mr. Deity/Talking Heads mashup?
Let me grab a beer.
@@chriscasperson5927 LOL! I do have a new Mr. Deity coming next week!
Life is under no obligation to make sense.
@@victorhiggins2118 Upon second reading, I must commend you. That’s a great line.
@@victorhiggins2118 I might add… or care about us in any way. 😜🫤
My favorite part of the story is that my gullibility is my most important characteristic to this god.
From Tom and Ray Magliozzi ." Love your neighbor as yourself. Buhdda says there is no self.. maybe you're off the hook!"
I could have listened to "Mr. Anderson" all day long.
I’ve studied philosophy for years, including taking courses from Oxford, Harvard and Yale. You are spot on with your initial analysis. My first thought ran to Ludwig Wittgenstein and what my Oxford professor was fond of saying about such questions. “I suspect the professor is in need of some linguistic therapy.”
@@yinYangMountain That’s a great line!!!
I wonder if Owen Anderson helps his landlady take out the garbage
Before Night Court, I watched WKRP, where the receptionist was Jennifer Marlow, played by....
Loni Anderson....
Anderson....
The result of the most cunningly conceived sex change operation in history.
Right on, Brian. Glad you're feeling better!
That was the exact right number of times to do that joke.
What fun, Agent 86 and Agent 99 from the "Get Smart" T.V. show appearing in a video about absurd philosophical conjecturing. Very clever Mr. Anderson.
Mr Anderson, why does WLC still look like a failed Batman villain?
@@georgem2334 Watch out for our next issue, when the Riddler teams up with "THE SOPHIST"! Will Batman make it out of the web of obfuscation?!
Wouldn't it be great if Mr. Anderson actually would watch this! Mr. Anderson, please watch.
Holy wow! A bunch of new vids! Thankyou 👍🏼🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌🏽
86 and 99 were in the Garden of Eden?
86: Don't tell me we ate the apple.
99: We ate the apple.
86: I asked you not to tell me that.
(and that's how they unleashed the KAOS on the world)
God: Why did you eat the fruit?
Max: Would you believe… a talking snake told us to?
@@misterdeity I find that hard to believe.
Max: Would you believe .. a miming worm?'
86: That's the third time this week I've fallen for that one.
Sorry about that, Chief.
Agents.of change
When I was 6 years old, life made sense because I watched the "Six Million Dollar Man", where the head of the OSI was Oscar Goldman, played by.....
Richard Anderson....
Anderson.....
@@astrosci8864 This is a great running gag running on top of a (great?) running gag. Well done!!!
@@misterdeity Then there's Mr. Anderson Cooper....
It all makes so much scents.
MISter Andersonnnn...LOL great running gag!
misterdeity, cool video it was really entertaining
Life is perfectly logical the laser penguins guarding the ice wall set it up....DUH!!
Brian, thank you! your humor and style continue to entertain me. And of course, you make your point elegantly. Thank you, as always.
Awesome! Thank you!
I responded to a different video today (maybe last night . . . memory and I aren't on the best of terms) talking about God creating evil. I came to the conclusion that God likes to cosplay as Satan, and he has to launder His costume every once in a while. After all, as my wife noted, "God separated the Dark from the Light -- because that's what He always does when He does His laundry."
With that in mind does he wash his clothes in cold, warm or hot water?
@@vestafreyja, depends on what's going on. If He's getting ready for revenge, He washes His Satan suit in cold water. If He's just up to mischief, it's warm. But if His wife catches Him mixing fabrics, it'll be in hot water.
Anything affiliated with PragerFU is to be laughed at.
Life is what it is. It all works fine without interjecting magic. Because “sense” is based on how something compares to known facts, and life as we know it shows us all the known facts; therefore, life comports perfectly with the known facts, as this is where we observe them. The answer is, “Yes. Life makes perfect sense.”
It is similar to dropping a rock and asking, “Does the falling of this rock seem like something gravity would do?”
A little something maybe worth mentioning; the preexistence of Chaos is also a problem.
A god floating and boating about in a sea of non-entity? Coalescing and organizing so as to ZOT an entire universe into order/entropy/enthalpy? Yep, that is a mighty tall order for a proto-ancient nascent cluster of god-i-ness from disorderliness. You’re right, a bit of a problem. =Peace=
@@johnb2649That was so well said/written!!! ❤
I'm pretty sure the term "reification" arose to describe the claims of many philosophers, especially religious ones.
Yeah one of those battles of chaos was the invisible sky wizard fighting a five-headed dragon or something like that. Does anybody remember that cartoon used to come on Saturday morning in the 80s called Dungeons & Dragons.
If you wanted to run away from your own existential sorrow, why couldn't you make stuff up that makes more sense?
@@BlueLightningSky There’s a much better story to be told.
Your best work to date.❤
Good to see you again!!
Great video as usual. Another PragerFU gem. There is no doubt that the Christian theology makes about as much sense as a waterproof sponge. However, life makes whatever `sense` we make of it. Including adopting senseless theologies. `The meaning of life is to give life meaning.` I'd argue we all do it, whether we know it or not.
Thank you for 2:22 in the video.
"Whatever that means!"
You don't need to remind me. I already subscribed to Mr. Anderson and watched *all* of the stuff on his channel (easy to do,as he's fairly new on YT). He's a lot of fun.
I have a BA in Philosophy. This question is just max cringe to me bc it’s the kind of question that uninformed people think a philosophy course would be like. But no serious philosophy course should start with a question like this one.
'Philosophy? Is that a sport?'
The thing I liked most about philosophy in college is there was no "wrong" answer; the teacher had to give me a good grade because she couldn't tell me my opinion was wrong; it's MY opinion.
@@MadeiraFonseca then you had a bad/lazy professor.
"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"
It's not so much about the question as it is about the dialogue Dorothy has about the question.
I love these posts. 😁
I remember that Prager video. Mr. Anderson didn't even get to his main point, but it's all downhill from here already.
It's even funnier that you basically derailed it before he even got there, too. Nice job.
I do not think, therefore, I do not am.
Yahweh? No way!
I think not. Therefore I am not.
Oh the irony 😂
If you only knew how apt that was to you and your make believe magical daddy 😂😂
Great video, Brian!
Glad you enjoyed it!
the fact that we are all here, despite the _possibility_ of evil, is testament to the fact that the vast, vast majority of humans are decent caring people - even the ones we disagree with will (generally) look after their own, we would not be here if the vast majority of people didn't take care of each other - to say "this life is filled with an immeasurable amount of injustice and suffering" just cannot be true.#, this life is filled with people *_who care_*
People care because that’s how you survive a place filled with an immeasurable amount of injustice and suffering. Otherwise, your species goes extinct. I’m looking at you, homo habilis.
"Once again, I'm me-o"
Thanks, you got me with sense. Can it be truly defined? I wonder. It don't make no sense.
You could have brought @Mr.AndersonCrosses in that answered 'yes' to the last Mr. Anderson Neo clip :P great video.
Oh, that poor Mr. Anderson, living such a meaningless existence.
What really doesn't make sense is how you don't have a million subscribers.
Preach!!!
🎼So here’s to you Mr. Anderson
Jesus’ isn’t real for those who know, Whoa whoa whoa
God bless you please Mr. Anderson- Heaven isn’t real, and there is no soul, whoa whoa whoa 🎵
Our life and world makes sense if a) there is no god, or b) there is a god and he's evil.
@@ptgannon1 So true. Great points!!!
or c) there is a god, and our universe is a failed experiment that said god tossed in their garbage can shortly after it began... so has no clue we exist...
How about an idiot deity that kicked the proverbial can then forgot about it....
That is a good question considering that life literally makes senses that are used to act/react in the natural world.
Prager U , trump U , same differance.
Yep!
Unfortunately, Occam's Razor does not apply to religion....
*What exactly, is the value of an **_"eternal life"_** ?*
What does one do with an eternal life that lasts not millions of years, or billions or trillions or
quadrillions or quintillions or sextillions or septillion or octillion, well lets just say, _without end ?_
Why, you get on your knees and sing praise songs to a deity responsible for making you and saving you so that you can sing praise songs on your knees. Can't say "thanks" enough you know. The deity has a big ego and he knew, in advance, that he would make it work this way because .... well, he jealous of gods made of stone and wood.
GO DEVILS 😈 🤘
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Alright! Second, ok third, watch. Just in different spot!👍🏼🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌🏼
It all makes perfect sense: Earth is a cosmic joke, and we are the punchline.
However, there is no evidence anyone or anything is laughing at the joke.
So, the serpent's name was Siegfried then? After all, he was the agent of kaos. . .
Love it!!! ♥
Word on the street is that, after watching this video, Mr. Anderson became a Neo-Platonist.
Very clever!!!
just excellent
Why does life have to make sense? Why does it have to have a meaning?
They don't really care about "meaning". And honestly, most of them would have never asked "what is the meaning of life", if they hadn't heard it from somebody else. It's all about getting an eternal life in paradise. They just can't deal with death. They like to believe there is more, that they will still exist, that the next life will be nice, that they will meet their deceased loved ones again.
@@maythesciencebewithyou Totally agree.
They officers were amazing.
@@pablobulldog ❓
this explains all why owen asks this question
Dr. Owen Anderson is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and a faculty associate at Phoenix Seminary where he teaches Philosophical Theology.
Mr. Anderson ought to stop and ask himself the important questions, like:
"Am I a good boy?"
Sorry my life only makes cents, dollars too!
Mine makes cents but not enough dollars.
should we care if life makes sense? i mean, aren't we just getting on with it?
I know I am!
Thanks!
Thank YOU! Blessings are headed your way!!!
Love the name 😂
Outside of time and space, outside of reality = not real 😂
At the rate of inflation, soon we won't have any cents; all we'll have left are scents; does that make sense?
"The God you believe in is not only not good, that God is cruel! That God made a world filled with unjust suffering and just left it at that."
You misunderstand his intent. That's why God sent us his only only-begotten son, Jackson Pollock.
Pennis Drager is a Jew so he doesn't believe that.
@@darkpatchesYou got me sir. The joke made my day 😁.
Hail Pollock!
Why ought life "make sense?"
On the subject of the whole "impregnating a virgin thingy", did the Holy Spirit violate Leviticus 19:20-22?
Once again, very well done. You do an excellent job of explaining the absurdity of religion. I wish my atheistic self could go back in time and tell my believing self to drop guilt ridden Mormonism and enjoy a good cabernet with friends and family.
RAmen! Although for me, it’s the weed. 😊
it's crazy that we have to point out how daft the stories are, when you say it "god creates a perfect place for adam and eve, but there's an evil snake, how'd he get into the garden?" it's clearly not even a children's story.
Crazy thing about Gen 1-3 is if you read what it says it tells you the story how to scam humanity into oblivion, sadly it works really really well.
Actually, if you research children's stories, this kind of depravity fits right in.
Does [a thing] make any sense. Why yes, it doesn't.
Now ask me another nonsensical question?
No life makes no sense philosophically. It does scientifically though.
Mr. Anderson makes sense...only in The Matrix.
I'm still stuck on why would anyone care? One foot in front of the other....
The only way life makes sense is second hand.
Life makes intelligent beings that can construct logical systems.
Life literally made logic.
Of course when he asked if life made sense, I have little doubt that despite his claims on teaching philosophy, he was appealing to emotions and intuition.
And since Mr. Anderson works with PragerU, I'm sure he is more concerned with making cents, than making sense.
@@stevewebber707 Well done!!!
See Mr Anderson?
No you don't. He's a glitch in the matrix.
Well, I would like to live in the matrix. Especially in Animatrix ;-)
That was such a great little add-on!
Actually his name is WASAHOETZ.
Ex Christians might find Advaita Vedanta a sensible alternative to Abrahamic ideologies.
2:08 Damn you for putting Culture Club in my head the rest of the day. You jerk.
Sorry. 😬
Karma (Chameleon) is a bytch.
JHVH (Jehovah, Yahweh, Jah, etc.) - is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good, and incapable of error
Also - created Adam and Eve, bade them not eat the forbidden fruit, and cursed mankind when they disobeyed him.
- allowed mankind to prosper in sin, then took a mulligan and killed everything except one family and two of each animal.
- created Lucifer, and then created Hell to punish him and the souls of the wicked.
- became mortal in the form of Christ, only to suffer horribly and die, to redeem the sins (of those who believe.)
All, apparently, with perfect foreknowledge of everything that would come to pass.
Does any of that make sense?
Somehow I suspect that Mr Anderson's loaded question is predicated on a nonsensical ...er... *sense* of the word "sense." It isn't meant to enquire if the existing conditions seem to be conducive for biological activity; nor even the existence of the human race.
It seems more akin to a statement in the form of a loaded question, in which 'life' is the series of events for an individual person between birth and death, and 'sense' is a value judgement wherin value acrues to the extent that conditions for life and the events within it are orchestated to revolve around ME; to placate MY ego; to satisfy MY petty desires.
I've got a better question Mr Anderson. Does the universe owe you anything more than the opportunity to live your life, just because you happen to exist? Or... Shoud we as humans expect the conditions of the universe and the events that prevail to cater to our whims and whines by placating our egos and having the decency to be all about US... to revolve around US?
Gods and their religions are the exact kind of manifestations you'd expect from the egocentric minds of people who's concept of 'meaning' is derived from self-centred, self-important narcissism.
*A little limerick from the perspective of Mr Anderson:*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The world might revolve around my God,
But he makes it revolve around me.
He gives my life value and meaning because,
He lives in my head rent-free.
Great poem! (it's not a limerick, though, which has 5 lines in an _aabba_ rhyme pattern)
@@JaniceinOR
There once was a man from Australia.
Who's poem was not a complete failure.
Though a limerick you say,
Should go aabba,
The lyrics were prone to regalia.
Wait... eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil makes your children morally impaired? By... knowing good and evil? I kinda feel like that needs a little more lantern hung on it, it kinda gets lost in the shuffle of the evil being that the all-knowing all-good creator made and then that deity's need to power-wash the planet.
It is even worse. First what loving parent would stick a dangerous object near their kids? Second the punishment is at odds with god's rules he informed the Israelite's, punishment should match the offense (eye for eye etcetera) and somewhere in the bible god says the sins of the father are not visited on the son (not sure about girls) at least after a few generations, that have certainly passed since the myth of Adam and Eve..
@@tomschmidt381 Plus, Jesus supposedly freeing us from sin still somehow doesn't make childbirth not painful? That's _one of the original curses the god of Genesis levied for sin._ It's a good thing he was only here on behalf of humanity, I'd hate to have seen how botched all the snake leg returns would have been.
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That was the answer, now what is the question... What is 6 times 9?
@@alanhilder1883there’s something terribly wrong about the universe.
@@alanhilder1883 I'm guessing you've never read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
@@stan1027 How many times, read it watched the TV show, heard some of the radio show ( didn't air here ), found the American movie to have totally missed the point.
Why do you think I haven't read it? The question was given in the 2nd of the trilogy ( only 5 books in the trilogy )
All you have to do is really, really believe in something for no good reason at all then it all make perfect sense... So what's the problem?
Faith accompli!
sounds like einstein and the big bang.
@@axeman2638 Yeah it kinda does, if you look away from all the overwhelming evidence for the Big Bang and BTW Einstein didn't coin the term Big Bang.
Or do you mean Albert Einstein didn't exist at all? "sounds like einstein and the big bang." Six small words, a name and still so much wrong in this little sentences 👏👏👏
@@mads5000 lol, the big bang never happened, and Einstein is nonsense that's not even mathematically correct.
Overwhelming evidence? roflmao, the CMB is an exercise in data filtering to achieve a predetermine conclusion. and the work of Halton Arp (Hubble's pupil) shows that standard interpretation of red shift is wrong.
That's the so called evidence for the big bang, nothing.
Stop just believing what you are told and go and look critically at the subject.
Try Eric Lerner's book, the big bang never happened to start.
I bet he conflates theology with philosophy! 🙄
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Life makes sense from the point of view of physics, which at least has a chance of describing *SOME* of the phenomena we current experience on this planet and in this reality. Thing is, though, trying to make sense of a planet of nearly eight billion people, each with their own POV, interests, needs, and drives strikes me as a task which would have Sisyphus saying, "To Hades with that noise" and go back to his rock.
And that's not even considering the illogical madness which is religion!
@@Troubleshooter125 As a big fan of classical Greece, this comment really makes me smile!
@@misterdeity I always thought the greek myths were so much more entertaining than anything in the bible. Sheesh, nailed to a tree for a day when you know you're coming back and then living in paradise? And they think that's immense torture? Clearly they never read greek god punishments.
@@darrennew8211 Indeed ... Prometheus, anyone?
@@misterdeity Brian, if I can give YOU a smile, that just makes my day!
@@Troubleshooter125 And for that matter, all the people saying "Crucifixion is the most terrible torture" sort of sayings. Like, how could anyone actually even know that? What's worse, starving to death, burning to death, drowning, or crucifixion? How do you measure that?