If you had the chance to know the truth but....

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If you were given the opportunity to know the origin of man and the universe, and if there's a God and who that God is, which, if any, religion is 'right' --HOWEVER--you are not allowed or able to communicate this knowledge to anyone else even in the slightest degree, EVER, would you go for it or not?

You would never be able to speak of it or to even influence anyone or anything even in any round-about sort of way.

I'd take the opportunity. 59
I wouldn't take the opportunity. 17
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  • Anime7
    11 years ago

    Well bring down Apollo and call me Cassandra. Yeah I'd totally take that deal.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I would absolutely want to know. Although this is a sneaky question because as I'm typing this, I'm considering how hard it would be to know something so momentous and not be able to do some good with the knowledge. Hmm. Now I don't know.

    Okay, I think I'd still want to know.

    Maybe.

    Arrgh!

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      It's a multi-level sneaky question!!

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        I'm starting to see this. I love it when people make me think.

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  • rosa333
    11 years ago

    People should be aware of the fact that God exists and that God has created the universe and man.

    If one reads the Bible, one will know how God created this world and everything in it.

    So, I don't like your question because God exists and even though it is hypothetical, such hypothesis came into life a long time ago.

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    • NocturnePonyFan
      11 years ago

      Will you just get hit by a bus already?

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      • rosa333
        11 years ago

        No

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        • NocturnePonyFan
          11 years ago

          Well, hopefully someone will change that.

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          • rosa333
            11 years ago

            Hah

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  • prof.oak
    11 years ago

    I would take it. This question assumes that people would believe you. If I go to class tomorrow and even insinuate that I now know the truth of existence, everyone will assume that my mind snapped under the pressure of finals week.

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  • Clambones
    11 years ago

    I know the truth. It's aliens

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  • TruthsetsUfree
    11 years ago

    I do know the truth. In relating my beliefs to the very interesting question stated here, I would deny whatever that truth apparently is. God wishes that none shall perish, hence, he made a way for us to be counted holy in His presence and a way to wash our sins away. So how could He accomplish the power of the Life giving truth of His son Jesus, if he told you, "you are saved through Christ Jesus, the one who has paid the debt of the worlds sin, to those who call on his name will they be counted worthy... and by the way, you can't tell anyone about this great thing which I have done for the world." Lol.

    That would make whatever the subjected truth is, to be a sham, and actually quite wicked and meaningless. I do know the truth, and will share it with anyone that wants to listen. We all fall short of the glory of our creator, He is just, the slightest hint of sin which is brought into His presence must be judged. But we all fall short, and the way of sin is death. Why would a righteous God kill everyone!!!? That is not His will.

    Picture a man on trial for unlawfully taking money from a home, if the Judge says to the man on trial, "are you sorry for what you have done?" Of course the accused would respond, "Yes, sir." If the Judge said, "Okay, you are free of your charges." That Judge would NOT be just, because for every crime their needs to be justice served, because that home owner would still be a victim and the loss is then placed on the home owner. Now, what if someone stepped in place for the accused, and offered to pay the debt to the homeowner, so the accused would be forgiven of his crime. The Judge would be justified in forgiving the accused of that sin, because the penalty has been paid. The one that stepped in is Jesus, you are the accused, and God is the Judge. Jesus dealt with the sin of all of us when He died, and when He was raised from the dead, he defeated Satan, because sin no longer has authority over our souls. The faith part, is between you and God. He will accomplish what he pleases, after considering the complexities of life, matter, and physics, I know that we are the element of a divine plan, and a divine purpose. The truth is in His word. Lates!

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  • myownopinions
    11 years ago

    Argh, I voted I want to know, and I was about to comment now about how I gave it some thought about how I actually don't want to know, but then I gave it some more thought and now I don't know.

    On the one hand, this might be a once in a or all lifetime(s) opportunity where, even if there is somewhere to go if I die, I still might not get my answer.

    On the other hand, I'm apatheist but still believe that there is no afterlife, but if I had my theory proved right, that would both suck to know that this is definitely my only life, and it would also be a little helpful in letting me know that I should live life to the fullest. If my theory is wrong, then it would be agony to not tell anybody (especially the old people who are afraid of dying) that they have nothing to worry about.

    Hmmm... Yeah, I think I'm going to agree with my vote. I would want to know. I might regret it later, but that could only happen after I know.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    No, I wouldn't. I'm a visual artist, my job is rooted in communication, and my art is full of all of my ideas. It would be too difficult and tedious to have to leave out any hint at that sort of information in my work.

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  • fullhouse
    11 years ago

    I voted No because..
    Ignorance is Bliss!! Didn't you oearn anything from Matrix?? Seriously? hehe

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  • kelili
    11 years ago

    I already know the truth

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    • KutAcross
      11 years ago

      Ignorant answer. I comepletely despise people like you. Where you wont even consider that someone elses theory may be right. That your religious beliefs are utterly flawless. I at least take ther religions into consideration even though theirs no logic to them, whatsoever.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      What is your truth? Just asking, respectfully.

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      • kelili
        11 years ago

        God created us

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        • Bubbles-for-life
          11 years ago

          This^ xD

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I already know these things my child.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Judging by your title, your truth is the Christian God and His creation. Correct?

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    On the one hand, I have very little curiosity about the world's origins. I simply don't have the desire to know that most people have, in the same way that I don't have the desire to know what causes homosexuality or who made my clock or the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (both African and European). Those things do not affect my life, and, as colossal a piece of information the origin of the world would be, I don't think knowing that would affect my life either. I certainly don't think the risk of the knowledge being valuable is worth trade-off of the certainty of being gagged.

    On the other hand, given the opportunity I don't know how well I'd be able to resist the natural instinct to know. So I don't know what I'd do.

    Are you offering? xD

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      I am just genuinely curious about the answers.

      I'm much like you and am not curious at all about this matter, but I know most people are either spiritually or scientifically or for various other purposes or intents so, really, this is just an all-around honest question looking for all sorts of honest responses!

      Thank you for your response! It's been duly noted, and will not go unappreciated! :)

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    Of course I would want to know.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      I'm fairly certain I've read posts of yours that indicate you are a religious person (Mormon?).

      Does your positive answer to this question mean you do not have total faith in your religion? To me, that's what I read of it.

      I posed this question out of many related curiosities, faith being one of them, so that is why I am curious as to why you answered 'yes'.

      I'd be VERY grateful if you explained! As a person who has never held a faith, nor even gave a second thought to a God or creation, I do not understand, so any expansion you can do on your answer-and my follow-up question-would be so appreciated! Don't take this as a back-and-forth debate invitation, I couldn't care less to debate with you over this, I am simply trying to understand better and you seem like the perfect person to help with that in this 'faith' regard.

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      • NeuroNeptunian
        11 years ago

        Bear in mind, my opinion should not be taken as any sort of representation of the entirety of religious people. We come together for the church and the common beliefs of God, Jesus etc. and many of their faiths comprise of the common beliefs of the church, but many of us also have our own personal beliefs so when you read this, take that into account.

        I don't want to misrepresent a group of people who are constantly misrepresented as a homogeneous group.

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      • NeuroNeptunian
        11 years ago

        Believe me, I am less interested in debate of my spiritual beliefs than you are.

        Yes, I am a Mormon. Yes, I have faith that there is a God and that he maintains watch over me and that there is a divine plan for us all. I have faith in the concept of a universal system of morality, that there is right and wrong on a level that is deeper than that which humans can see or construct and I have faith that everything that is now was planned to be by God. I have faith that everything that is now exists beyond a level at which our senses perceive...

        They say, in church, that you can no longer have faith once you see God and once you learn the answers from God directly. Even in church, we acknowledge that our faith is not based upon scientific evidence: that is the very definition of faith, believing what you do not see. Being able to believe something based upon pure feeling alone. When you see God, however, you no longer have faith. It can no longer be called faith.

        The rest of my belief system is based upon knowledge of what I can see, perceive, know and prove. My feelings won't change the fact that if I jump, I will fall back down. My feelings will not change the fact that the wind blows or that entropy converts useful energy into useless energy. However, my feelings can change whether or not God exists to me and my faith makes the difference between a world devoid of God and entirely constructed by chance, scientific laws and human constructed morals, and a world where there is a God and a level of right and wrong that exists universally.

        Part of the challenge of Faith is to learn to live with that. To most believers, it comes instantaneously but for me, knowing that my feelings make the difference in the reality perceived by myself is sometimes... unsettling. My perception of reality is fluid and, unlike billions of believers who have a foundation of reality in their religion, and to an extent, my belief in God is almost solid but everything else? I have a hard time believing that out of all of the well-honed perceptions of the universe and the afterlife, mine would somehow be correct. My wanting it to be will not make it so and while I believe it is... that doesn't mean it is.

        Faith is wonderful, but at the same time, it is a burden. If I were given the chance to lose my faith, then I would take it. If it turns out that my faith is wrong, I would rather it be replaced by the CORRECT answer, rather than someone's OPINION (atheist, religious or otherwise) of the correct answer.

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        • prof.oak
          11 years ago

          You're awesome. I'm not religious, but this is true faith. Many people think faith is to believe without questioning; wrong, that's zealotry. Faith is to continue believing in spite of your questions and doubts.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          I *think* I understand what you're saying.

          It still leaves me wondering, why a person who thinks like you do would commit to a specific faith, and be content (at least on the surface) though.

          Do you feel less faithful than those who don't question such matters? Do you ever wish you didn't have a faith?

          Forgive me, this is just very interesting!

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          • NeuroNeptunian
            11 years ago

            Do I feel less faithful than those who don't question such matters? Of course, but even many Christians question what they believe. Some of them are more vocal about it, some of them keep it to themselves out of fear that they will be shunned by their fellow Christians.

            There are people out there that accept all of these scriptures and truths the way that you would accept your car being rained upon. It's true, it happened, they might has well have seen it with their own eyes.

            However, I would say that when it comes to the idea of God being the divine creator and all things being under the providence of God, I would say I am very faithful to that idea. Even if and when I am able to call bullshit on every other religious precept, doctrine and concept, the idea that there is a God and that there is something greater than ourselves still resonates in my mind, regardless of any evolutionary explanation for why I would think like that. It's as real to me as my very own existence.

            It's not as if I am unfamiliar with science and with the ideals of atheism and I have probably read more atheist literature than your average atheist, but it all came down to my faith and I could not shake it. Would I? No. Regardless of the right and wrong, it makes the world make more sense to me and my central belief in a deity makes it much easier for me to accept that the universe that we live in may not be as solid and definite as the great thinkers of our time try to make it look.

            However, it'd be great to know the truth. We all want to know the truth, the "Theory of Existence". Knowing is necessary for many people, atheist and religious alike. That is just what it is though, theoretical bullshit based on observation. There's no solid proof for or against God, but wherever it leans, I'd like to see it BECAUSE of the way I think.

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              11 years ago

              Thanks for your replies! :)

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