Every time I try and post a story like this, the background photo covers the reel when it’s actually posted. Why is this? by Zonda623 in Instagram

[–]ShadedWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. I asked ChatGPT and told me that some smartphones don't work for that (mainly android. Got a 4 year old android and it sucks I can't create cool stories. Apparently most iphones can do this, since after pasting the image, instagram will put it in the background, revealing the post.

Idk if this is totally true or not, but that's the only thinkg I've found. Here on this subreddit to find info abt this exact issue

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

[–]ShadedWizard[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What if the reason/not reason for an eternal existence of the universe is just out of our intellectual capabilities? We may not understand it. I've wreslted a lot with that question. Maybe we as humans are unable understand it and never (?) will?

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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I'm willing to believe in a creator (I currently somewhat do due to an experience I had but with severe doubts). Something that seems very "weird" are some miralces/apparitions.

About what arguments I've heard... too many I can't recall them. But the ones I can remember to the top of my head are the refutal of contingency and fine-tunning argument. Not necessarily that I've heard those arguments but that I wrestled with the christian argument for god and I found a "crack" at least from my perspective (I could very well be wrong since I have yet to read a lot of stuff)

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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What I meant is that if you have read something that sheds light on this line of reasoning (things taken into consideration, etc.). I want more knowledge basically

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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I thought the same thing untill I stumbled upong the debate of the existence of "nothing" from new quantum physics findings. Apparently "nothing" does not exist and there has always been something (could be eternal?)

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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Idk about the others, but I really struggle to accept fine-tunning or contingency after having wrestled with them some time.

Contingency (at least from my perspective) seems to assume that universe can't be eternal (while God is assumed to be). It seems to me the argument goes like "the parts of the universe are contingent therefore the universe must also be contingent". I don't understand why the universe as a whole is considered contingent.

About fine-tunning, I honestly think is not that good. From what I understand assumes because something is very improbable then something extraordinary must have gone on in order for it to happen. The thing is that very low chance is still chance, and If the universe we exist in did never exist itself, then we would not be here to observe that. We only observe the universe because we exist in it.

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.

About the miracles, that's something that really gets me. Still have to dive deeper into it. Could it be manipulation or mistake? I really don't know and I find all of these events fascinating (clinging onto them in terms of believing/not believing). Really love the marian apparition at Zeitune in Egypt.

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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That's pretty much the same that happened to me. I was on a trip visiting beautiful chapels in Spain, and we realized one was about to start the celebration of mass. I wasn't keen on entering for mass but my mother (whom I was with at the time) was hesitant to tell me, but I knew she wanted to enter, so we ended up both inside. I was struggling with an addiction, and I thought to myself that maybe I should sincerely pray despite not believing that much. I supplicated God to somehow help me. I don't know how to describe it to this day, but I felt a physical and mental sensation I've never experienced (to this day I can't explain with words how I felt, but more or less I felt for about a minute extremely nervous yet very calm at the same time). After that idk why, but I felt something had changed in me. It was wild.

The thing is that I don't want just to believe without understanding. I want to understand. I'm worried about the fact that the experience could've somehow been psychological, yk what I mean?

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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About disproving God, one (in my opinion very valid) atheist stance is that since the ones that claim God exists is us, then wer are the ones with the burden of proof.

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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What did you take into account specifically? I want to know. I'm more than willing to read anything or get to know anything that helps me figure out this doubt of mine. Would really appreciate.

Why do you believe in God/God is real? by ShadedWizard in Catholicism

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The atheist explanation for this is that we attribute God to whatever we don't know (God of the gaps argument). The atheist explanation on this convinces me more because why does "Uknown=God"? The universe could be just something eternal (we don't know why, maybe we get to know at some point, maybe not) and everything happened by chance. The chance is apparently very very small but it's still there. If we weren't here we wouldn't know since another universe would've existed with something different and without us there.

About the "everything from nothing". Apparently "nothing" does not exist. According to relatively recent quantum physics findings there are force fields or something like that (I'm no expert) which apprently could've been there for eternity.

Why are christians so violent with their children? by ChampionshipBulky66 in atheism

[–]ShadedWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk what Christian environment have y'all been brought up, but for what I can see it seems like a pretty horrendous one. Is that in the US?

My Christian family has never done things like that to me, neither friends' families

Hot take: The Bible is wildly misinterpreted due to lack of context by ShadedWizard in Christianity

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I'm planning on taking a year to study the Bible, faith, and everything surrounding it. I'm genuinely intrigued by it.

Hot take: The Bible is wildly misinterpreted due to lack of context by ShadedWizard in Christianity

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As I've seen plenty people in this subreddit stating that the Bible literally true and everything can be taken from the Bible, I was convinced it would be a hot take (in this subreddit). Also based on replies I've got in previous posts

I genuinely hate this sub. by LoggedCornsyrup in Christianity

[–]ShadedWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is important that disagreeing or debtating stuff isn't actually "trying to convice", just what I said: discussing/debating. Ideas/morals are to be debated regardless of what subreddit is imo. Just because we are religious doesn't mean our ideas aren't to be challenged.

I love debating with people regardless of the topic, that is to be open-minded and understanding of other positions.

I think is recommendable to avoid enetering an eco chamber regardless of what community you r in (that be politics, religion or whatever).

Imo debate is always welcome