Last thoughts for the night

"Try to think of us human beings as instruments, put into an environment. Things impinge on us. Just as a thermometer registers the temperature, so we respond to causal impacts: energies and photons and pressures of touch and sound. I, as an instrument, respond to this continuous causal flux one way--a way determined by the state of my sense organs and brain--and so do you. But if I respond one way, and you a different way, where is truth or falsity? I am an input-output device which gives one output, and you are a similar device which gives another." --Simon Blackburn

I don't know what to make of having no control. It makes things less serious, it takes things to a different level. If you are a hard determinist you technically believe everything is set and we are just playing out a recording; we are the music. Technically this means we believe in God. God is a word Romantics like to use, it’s a pretty way of saying everything is as it should be. I'm an Atheist for political reasons. I'm an atheist because I have no empirical data to the contrary. I believe in the possibility of Deities but I highly doubt the likelihood of a God as "we" understand it. We being humans, we meaning an anthropocentric Deity. If there is a God then he doesn't care about us. If there is a God with traits most people claim, then he's an asshole.

See even reading back over this I am caught by the uselessness of the word God. It’s such a loaded word. I used it just now in a few different contexts; all from one word. The word is meaningless because there are so many different interpretations of the word. I can't comprehend what you mean by the word. It has no meaning--shit can I say that one more time? That’s why when you start a debate you first have to make the person making the claim to define her terms. Usually that’s where most of my debates snag. When you actually sit down and force a person to define what they mean you come to find out they don't know what they mean. How can people invest so much belief and passion into something they don't understand? And yet the thing is I do it all the time, my confusion isn't God my confusion is life. Yet I'm very passionate about it and I have no fucking clue about anything. So I sit and poke holes in people beliefs so that they can be as empty as I am.

Wow the quote I used to influence my last thoughts for the night have nothing to do with the subjects I hit on. Or maybe they do?