Quote: (03-29-2014 01:57 PM)Farmageddon Wrote:
Actually the feeling of love or infatuation or attachment or anything similar to this is very closely linked the release of oxytocin and serotonin and dopamine in the brain. Love is quantifiable. A personal God who intervenes in human affairs is not.
Electric currents in a chip are also quantifiable and measurable, which does not mean that you can touch your operating system. Software has a physical embodiment, but it's still intangible.
You're not attacking my point, but confirming it. Love is an idea. So is God. If ideas have a real impact by being believed by a collective of people, then they do exist. The word "god" is just an old name for "idea". Hence, the gods exist. We cannot see them, but they are with us. Eros is with us when we fall in love, for instance. The fact that we get high on love is the proof that Eros exists.
In the old days, our "unenlightened" ancestors sacrificed goats to please, say, Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, hoping she would give them a good harvest. Today, modern "progressives" sacrifice women in the workplace to please the God of Equality, and have the gall to call themselves atheistic. They also want to sacrifice women on the battlefield to please the very same god. And millions of lives are destroyed to please the God of Economic Growth, as if economic growth always implied an increase in the quality of life of a population.
Humans need a religion. The abstract ideas that move modern humans are our modern gods.
"The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her." – H.L. Mencken