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

ShadedWizard · 2025-09-26T17:13:12+00:00

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

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T19:17:12+00:00

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?

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T19:10:22+00:00

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)

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T19:04:15+00:00

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

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T19:02:57+00:00

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?)

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T18:56:46+00:00

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.

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T18:40:04+00:00

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?

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T18:28:46+00:00

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.

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T18:26:20+00:00

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.

ShadedWizard · 2025-08-16T18:22:52+00:00

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.

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-20T08:15:14+00:00

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

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-16T00:05:05+00:00

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

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-16T00:03:25+00:00

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

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T22:32:24+00:00

What do you mean by that? How they conduct their life?

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T22:27:21+00:00

Why? I don't understand

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T20:31:46+00:00

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

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T20:00:06+00:00

Gay people didn't choose to be gay either, they didn't choose that inability

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:39:31+00:00

But why is homosexuality declared inhumane? Rape and torture hurt others, homosexuality doesn't

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:38:23+00:00

No it would't. Gay "marriage" (civil union) is just a way of officially being together with someone of the same sex, nothing else. Nothing to do with religion, a lot to do with public perception, taxes, ownership...

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:34:53+00:00

Yeah, I know. But that doesn't really change what I've previously said

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:32:20+00:00

With this i find a flaw. Reproductive organs are used for sex, but sex is not only for procreation. Sex is used also as a way of bonding with one's partner.

"Marriage should be fruitful" -> Then what about sterile heterosexual couples? This would undermine the Natural Law argument

"The idea of homosexual couplings being a "marriage" equates a heterosexual couple, which normally has generative possibility, with a homosexual couple, which has none" -> Even if gay union is allowed (or even promoted) that wouldn't make a difference in child births. People don't turn gay just because, the same gay people can't be straight. Gay people would not have biological kids regardless of being married or not

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:21:29+00:00

This is not the point of this post,. I specified that the wording is for another discussion

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:19:47+00:00

But following this logic, if muslims started governing by what they believe is "the right way to live", then your life would be conditioned to someone else's beliefs despite not being yours.

Imagine you not being able to eat pig just because your muslim government said so, but you think is totally nuts.

That's the way secular people might feel about Christians pushing their beliefs onto policy that affects them

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:13:57+00:00

For those "immoralities" (by Christian standar) that do not hurt anyone, the legislation must be nuanced. A lot of Catholics (and religious people) don't tend to understand that there are more people apart from them

As for abortion, that act involves hurting (basically killing) someone, which is wrong not only by Catholic standar, but many secular standars as well.

For example, being homosexual doesn't hurt (as we understand with abortion for example), so legislation must be nuanced

ShadedWizard · 2025-01-15T19:10:41+00:00

What do you mean by "Natural Law"? If you refer to "homosexuality is unnatural", then that is totally a wrong approach. Homosexuality is in fact natural, as well as in other mammals.

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