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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think what they are trying to say is that the emotional experience they have when they look at a sunset is similar to the emotional experience that gives them conviction that there is a God. It's not a statement of objective fact about the universe and its processes; it's a statement about their mental and emotional life and how they want to feel inside their own head.

Although, maybe they are saying that no one knows how sunsets work and so therefore a wizard did it. I would hope it is that first thing though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

God’s just a burst of dopamine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Dopamine used to be considered the generic pleasure chemical, but I think it's not anymore. Has more to do with reward pathways and learning, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Although, maybe they are saying that no one knows how sunsets work and so therefore a wizard did it. I would hope it is that first thing though.

There is still a decent chance it's the second tbh. Fucking magnets/tide goes in etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like it has to be the second thing, but not everyone has those religious experiences, and even the religious don't always correlate these things to God. It just requires so many layers of weird assumption that I really don't know what to think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

"... that I really don't know what to think."

There, you're starting to get it! That's exactly what the religious do. Get confused, start using "god did it" as a gap filler in their knowledge, and soon, they "know" less than nothing.