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A question about God, the answer to which should tell nothing of religious beliefs?
Sister kiki, you fasted the entire month _before_ Ramadan, so only God knows of the sinuous intricacies of your immaculately devotional stratagems. However, I am utterly convinced that your phrasing is, most assuredly, a subtle confession of your ardorous, fervent faith.
For in commanding us to tell nothing of belief, you command us not to simply believe, but to **KNOW** there is a God; and in posing such questions, you humbly remind your brethren not to fall for idolatry.
Give thanks and praise, for we shall not serve nor bow ourselves down to no one and no thing but the LORD. A "very powerful entity" is not greater than all, [TRANSCENDENT OVER ALL]; it is IMPOTENT before the Almighty, Most Exalted, Most High.
In summary, sister kiki reminds us to _both_ (utilize reason) and {reject shirk}, for the later requires the former.
Let us now rejoice, and join our hands and voices in prayer... -
@SoldierOfCode all models are wrong, but some are useful. I think that distracting ourselves with whether the almighty entity exists prevents us from examining entities that, in practice, just as almighty to us
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I don't think our understanding of the world is anywhere near good enough to estimate the probability of our survival throughout history. Every equation I'd seen so far for this purpose involves mostly coefficients we can't even begin to credibly reason about, and a few that are hotly debated with vastly different value candidates.
Thought experiment (and I promise there are no plot twists and no metaphors -- it won't turn out that I was talking about tiktok/apple/censorship):
Imagine there is a cosmic horror entity that can annihilate us in an instant. It lives at the bottom of a pit. We as a species are being constantly sucked into that pit -- in this fictional universe, it's the natural order of life. The pit devoured many before us, and we're next. The pit is not conscious -- it's just a force that exists, and like a black hole, it can do nothing but attract things around it just to devour them. It has no choice -- it destroys things passively. It never changes the way it destroys things.
We know we should've been already done for long ago, yet we are still alive. We know that at this scale, it wasn't because of something WE did or didn't do.
It can only mean one thing: a very powerful entity consciously keeps us alive.
Can this entity be called "god"? If yes, why? If no, why?
Choosing either way tells nothing about you and your religious beliefs -- the universe is pure fiction, and known gods/religions don't work there. All I need from you is raw thought process.
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