Koizito

Very little I must say... There are all kinds of anime!

You are so right!

If he was dead before he fell, he died asfixiated or with the neck broken... If not, then he died from the wound in his belly... As simple as that...

He died twice?

NO!! Don't give up on anime... It is really cool!!

I think you mean pantheist...

"Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" I took the liberty to search for what I think is the article where Albert Einstein said that sentence... The one about science and religion... As you can see, for him religion at best only gives you the goals, but it can never take you there... For that we have science... And faith is only needed when a scientist believes everything can be explained rationaly... And the sentence before, as I already said, is a metaphor, in which god means the natural laws...

Hey I never said he was cold and too rational... From what I know of him, he seemed like a nice guy, even though a stubborn guy... "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." Albert Einstein I guess you people don't understand the meaning of the word "metaphor"...

Everything we know for sure, every single piece of technology we have at our disposal came from science, reason and mathematical processes... As a society, religion doesn't help a bit and, in some cases, it increases suffering and death... Of course, we may feel more confident if we think there is a cosmical father or something like that helping us, but this is taking it individually... Albert Einstein wasn't theist, he was a pantheist... He believed the natural laws were god... Like in a metaphor... He didn't believe in a being that is watching for us... And also, I think that by "intuitive" he meant "imaginative, creative", as supposedely a scientist should be... We already did the impossible: some centuries ago, people thought nothing that was heavier than air would fly, and therefore it was impossible to us, humans, to fly, but now we have giant machines, which weigh much more than air, taking us to far away places... Nothing is impossible... Knowing the "what" but not the "why" and the "how" is like knowing the story less than half way ... The"why" and the "how" are much more interesting and hard to know... Evidences are things that you can show anybody and that person wouldn't have other option than to say "yes, the X event occurred...". Faith can't do that, or else even the most rational scientists in the world would have to accept it as evidence... Or as a way to achieve proofs... Actually, one of the objectives of the first model of science was to try to explain things without using supernatural explanations... And that one hasn't changed yet... And finally, both doubt and fear are good things: doubt makes you look for knowledge, fear makes you want to change things... Both of them, mixed with moral and ethics, are extremely useful... How convenient for something or someone which existence can't be proved by science or any rational means that faith is good and both doubt and fear are bad...

I have to be honest with you, your opinion is kind of a paradox... You say you prefer to be unhappy and know the truth, and for that you need reason, but after that you say you would love to have faith... I may not be understanding your perspective but I think that's contradictory... You also have some of the reasons that made me think a little more about faith and religion... When I was a child, people always told me to pray and god would answer... But it was always a monologue... I remeber I often thought "what am I doing wrong? Maybe I don't know how to pray..." and things like that... Now I know what was wrong: my CBW (christian brain wash) didn't work!

I am using the most common definition for faith... If you have another, tell me which is it...

I find this funny... If I said I was the second Jesus, would you follow my blindly? Of course not, you probably would demand proof of what I was saying... And yet you don't demand proof from anything that is written in some books...

Then as a scientist, you should know these theories you speak of are actually hipothesys... And isn't math one way to prove some things? And about your last paragraph, by that logic you, as a religious person, could never make theories without taking in account the existence of god, as an atheist can't make theories accounting with god...

The religion itself may encourage reason and logic, but in one thing it will always exclude them: the existence of god... There are not objective proofs for the existence of god... So yeah, a religious person may never say he or she is totally in favor of logic and reason, even if his or her religion tells him or her to do so...

Everybody says that... It is also interesting that you find curiousity so interesting... It is pretty common in us humans... And even though atheists and theists have some very different world views, should we stop care about religious people and also stop communicate with them? Call me crazy but I think not...