To be happy right now doesn’t prevent future planning. It’s just a matter of terminology. What’s future? It’s Present which has not happened yet. It may happen or may not.
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Now we should talk about whether we have Free Will. (I say we do, even if we don’t choose to use it very well). This is not just a question of religious faith. Robert Sapolsky, PhD (zebras don’t get ulcers) says no free will. Sam Harris (making sense podcast) says no free will.
What say you?
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This is a loaded sentence if you ask me. Such a generalized statement/assumption should never be put on writing. Says who that happiest are non-religious and in what basis, and how it is measured. BTW not taking a side either way but merely pointing the fact that things can’t be as simple as ok get rid of religion and we will all be happy LOL. Not religious myself however I do wish I were and couldn’t quite explain why that is so.
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I didn’t start this discussion and it is not my intent to question or denigrate anyone’s religious beliefs. I do not think this is a proper subject for Rapamycin News.
But here are a few alternatives:
Jesus and most other prophets merely suffered from schizophrenia and thought they heard the voice of God.
Gods had already been invented by then to explain natural phenomena which people did not understand and not to feel so damn lonely and alone.
Some think God is the result of the bicameral mind.
“Bicameralism[Note 1] (the condition of being divided into “two-chambers”) is a controversial hypothesis in psychology and neuroscience which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be “speaking”, and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind, and that the evolutionary breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans. The term was coined by Julian Jaynes.”
I like the Bicameralism Theory.
“In 2012, a team of psychiatrists, behavioral psychologists, neurologists and neuropsychiatrists from the Harvard Medical School published a research that suggested the development of a new diagnostic category of psychiatric disorders related to religious delusion and hyperreligiosity.[4] They compared the thoughts and behaviors of the most important figures in the Bible (Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Paul)[4] with patients affected by mental disorders related to the psychotic spectrum using different clusters of disorders and diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV-TR),[4] and concluded that these Biblical figures “may have had psychotic symptoms that contributed inspiration for their revelations”,[4] such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, delusional disorder, delusions of grandeur, auditory-visual hallucinations, paranoia”
Bicameralism (Psychology) | Encyclopedia MDPI(the,and%20a%20second%20part%20which
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I say we do not have free will. And I’m not even religious. Brain makes decisions before we even know it.
OK folks, I’m concerned that this thread is veering off into a religious discussion… so better to take that type of discussion off to forums focused on those discussions if you want to talk about those.
Lots of potential for never-ending arguments when we veer into religion, yes, even worse than the rapamycin and cardiovascular risk thread ;-).
So - I’m closing this topic.
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