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Originally Posted by Saya
Well yes belief shapes my life, but I am a religious person.
However even an athiest who assumes they will wake up in the morning does not eliminate the possibility that they will die in their sleep, they just don't think about it and take it for granted they'll wake up. Lots of things are givens that we know, water will boil at 100 degrees, and tea will be done after its steeps for a few minutes. We KNOW that once we pour the teapot blood isn't going to pour out. A religious person however might be waiting and expecting for signs of the end of days, so they don't quite KNOW that.
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Absolutely! We know that water boils at 100 degrees but if you change the pressure it boils at a different temperature. But in your day to day experience the water always boils at the same temperature. But that's not an absolute don't you see.
And when you sleep there are very good odds you will wake up. But what if you are terminally ill...then all the odds change and you see things differently.
The point is that it is our experiences which determine how we view things...there are no absolutes and it is a delusion to think that there are.
We create/impose a form of order on the world because it would be impossible to live our lives if we didn't.
But it may be conceivable surely that when we go to bed tonight none of us will wake up because they guy on the corner who believes the end of days is upon us might just possibly be right.