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Thats true, I completly forgot about psychology (some how).
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I don't have much faith in Psychology to solve the more abstract problems about the universe, only to deal with 'good enough' statements for interpersonal situations and how our mind works in relation to them. Of course I'd love to be proved wrong. I
do want to be a psychologist after all.
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What I meant was that Religion has a conscious being controlling the universe while science believes the universe is run by automatic processes and coincidence (or something like that). Shove those aside and you have similar things; they're just using their own way to explain the universe.
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It's a fair bit more complex than that, especially with these 'coincidences'. If there is an infinite number of universes then the vast
vast majority of them cannot support any kind of life, so it's not by coincidence that we're here, it's by necessity. Because we simply couldn't be anywhere else.
EDIT: Not all religions believe in a conscious being controlling the universe, some believe in avatars of nature, nature itself or the whole universe as God.
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MA's story was interesting, that lorry driver seems completly immature. Ouija boards seem to be quite interesting objects.
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My opinion of Ouija boards is the same as my opinion about tarot cards, that is, that you see only what you want to see.
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I see the idea of a link between omnipotence and impotence (if you can do anything, what is there to do? The ultimate bored child phenomena) but don't think it applies to the God I believe in. God is inspired to act through love. Sometimes that means doing nothing and sometimes that means doing anything.
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That's not exactly what I mean, what I mean is closer to how the character of Dr. Manhattan is realized in
Watchmen, that is that he is rendered absolutely inert and powerless by his own power. The power to change anything and the knowledge that goes with it means that you cannot in fact change anything. God cannot act because he already has, he is not a free will, he cannot make choices, he is, in fact, a force of nature.