Originally posted by Thequ1ck
If time travel eventually becomes possible, will the stories of Jesus and other mythologies actually be the workings of our future selves telling fables of our current day and futures?

Shouldn't the notion of a temporal loop be our new religion?

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
So we need to reduce religion to a hypothesis or else eradicate it?

Suppose we do manage to hypothesise existence, what would the leading theory be?

Originally posted by twhitehead
Also, all those future time travellers will be getting influenced by other time travellers who come after (or came before).

The reason why time travel is impossible, is there is always some lunatic that goes back and kills the guy that invented it.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7214412/Heinlein-Robert-a-All-You-Zombies

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Since religion does not attempt to explain anything, Occam's razor does not apply to it.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
As far as I can tell, this last question doesn't even really have much meaning.

Richard

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
Maybe it's not the sharpest tool in the box then.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Even the sharpest tool does not work if you apply it to nothing.

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
Does not work or does not have an effect?

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
Of course it does. It's the difference between looking forward and looking back.

One creates, one destroys.

The word religion describes a certain set of beliefs.

While all religions are different they do all (unless you can describe an example otherwise) have one thing in common.

They ALL include a faith based belief in some kind of life after death for us humans.

Many also include beliefs in a deity or deities and all kinds of other nonsense but the thing that they all have in common
that is the hall mark of a belief set that can be classed as a religion is belief in life after death.


Thus whatever the hell "Shouldn't the notion of a temporal loop be our new religion?" actually means...

And as far as I can tell it's meaningless nonsense...

There is nothing about the idea of temporal loops (whatever they are) as far as I can tell that includes or suggests
a life after death.

Thus my answer must be no. Whatever the hell belief in this is, it is not a religion or religious belief.

Originally posted by googlefudge
The word religion describes a certain set of beliefs.

While all religions are different they do all (unless you can describe an example otherwise) have one thing in common.

They ALL include a faith based belief in some kind of life after death for us humans.

Many also include beliefs in a deity or deities and all kinds of other nonsense but the ...[text shortened]... r must be no. Whatever the hell belief in this is, it is not a religion or religious belief.

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Originally posted by googlefudge
The word religion describes a certain set of beliefs.

While all religions are different they do all (unless you can describe an example otherwise) have one thing in common.

They ALL include a faith based belief in some kind of life after death for us humans.

Many also include beliefs in a deity or deities and all kinds of other nonsense but the ...[text shortened]... r must be no. Whatever the hell belief in this is, it is not a religion or religious belief.

Originally posted by googlefudge
The word religion describes a certain set of beliefs.

While all religions are different they do all (unless you can describe an example otherwise) have one thing in common.

They ALL include a faith based belief in some kind of life after death for us humans.

Many also include beliefs in a deity or deities and all kinds of other nonsense but the r must be no. Whatever the hell belief in this is, it is not a religion or religious belief.

Originally posted by Thequ1ck
Yes, I can provide an example. Of a successful 'religion' as you put it.

Buddhism.