What are some demotivating quotes?

And even attempting to be spiritual about it: if anything supernatural were to exist, they could only do so by being reducible down into their own existential atomized mechanisms, just like we are. Like, if an all powerful god existed, at least all powerful relative to the size of our universe, if you COULD coherently describe what that could even mean in mechanistic terms, is that logically possible? Let's assume so. All of existence simply is what it is because it is what it is, ultimately, and if our universe is something that could be, and is also logically possible, then that would suggest that all of logical possibility occurs in a repeating frequency relative to the likelihood of any particular series of atomic mechanisms taking place. So The Christian God exists, and Buddha, and Tui and Tui2 and Tui3 and 489548345098, literally every possible label that could possibly be thought up accurately describes some particular existence. Because God, if they existed, would just be what they are because they are what they are because that is a logical possibility and if it is logically possible for everything to eventually happen in endless possibility, then eventually your notions of "an all powerful god weaving through and beyond our universe" would exist. Any other combination of god and other supernatural thing existing and not existing in parallel to a copy of our universe would exist. But, logically, you are far more likely to exist in a universe with merely our mechanisms. Because more mechanisms equals more complexity equals more unlikeliness. But even if you were copies of our universe where there were some mechanisms "tied" to our universal mechanisms that formed your consciousness, such that your consciousness could be transferred to some other plane, logically, most of these would be basically static chaos, because static chaos is far more likely than well ordered happenstance, it would likely be only interpretable as a literal hell where only a happenstantial intersection of your consciousness has popped into existence, surrounded by nothing but the bare minimum of information necessary to define a copy of what your consciousness would be like if it were suddenly teleported from what it was and all of its hopes and fears copied into a series of pathways yet connected to no external stimulus and sustaining itself in nothing.

So really it is actually good that even examining the most charitable olive branch to what could make faith based notions possible: there is probably no afterlife for us, statistically it is nearly a guarantee, but even if there were, statistically, it would probably suck.

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