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spaghettilegslee28 karma

I read them all. There are assumptions and logical leaps that are obscured by what seem to be a very simple a to b to c, but really it goes a to b to c so therefore z. I don't think so. Even if it's true it's not logically sound to assume that a first mover must be omnipotent, omniscient, or omnipresent, let alone jumping to the claim of what we all agree is the definition of God. The only God I can see from this logical chain is a god of the gaps and I think there is arrogance in assuming that everyone can agree on anything as abstract as God. Pretty much a rehash of centuries old thoughts with a good measure of patronizing commentary and unnecessary trips to Home Depot.

I can understand religion and the belief in God especially from a historic or traditional sense and even a purely emotional one. I also don't care if people believe or not, but I find it very intellectually dishonest to use logic to prove God in the way the first mover hypothesis does.

You can only get to that conclusion from those steps if you were already aimed there. Sound logical steps don't require assumptions or presuppositions about what everyone supposedly agrees on to arrive to its inevitable conclusion.

The first mover hypothesis starts with physical laws and certainties which no good thinker can deny, then leaps to I don't know, therefore God. The intellectual dishonesty is obscuring the I don't know to it must be this and we all agree that this is God so therefore God.

I'm glad that you found meaning and happiness. Whether it's from Catholicism or anything else is fine by me. I get that reading the old thinkers played a part in your conversion and it's an important part of it, but it's not really bulletproof logic.

Keep believing if it makes you happy and a better person. It's also kind of cool to participate in beliefs and rituals so ancient, but I remain unconvinced it's anything more than a human invention by geniuses and great thinkers of millenia ago.

spaghettilegslee2 karma

Can you do one arm handstands on the ground by yourself? Or is this unnecessary and waste of time to train? If I'm not mistaken a flyer just needs to stay tight like a broomstick for the base to balance everything.

More important question is how many hours a week do you train?