> It is hopelessly self-centered to claim that they were made in God's image.
Much less self centered than assume we’re developed from a mud on our own, without any external intervention.
> It is hopelessly self-centered to claim that He made the world just for us, and put us above all animals.
Not a bit more than think that we’re ultimate authority to judge and decide who is above who
> It is hopelessly self-centered to literally centre the Earth, and have the Sun rotate around us.
Geometrically it is an arbitrary choice of the coordinates system. Cosmologically and historically it was only an intermediate view held by many nations regardless of their religious views. Generally, the Earth is a truly unique planey unless found otherwise.
> Much less self centered than assume we’re developed from a mud on our own, without any external intervention.
No. "From mud" is strictly less egocentric than "in God's image" for any possible interpretation.
> Not a bit more than think that we’re ultimate authority to judge and decide who is above who
No such thought necessary.
> Geometrically it is an arbitrary choice of the coordinates system.
It is absolutely not. Have a quick peek into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle. If you put Earth in the middle, then all the other planets move along squiggly lines and do not travel on the clean ellipses prescribed by gravity. Atheists joke about 'why not intelligent falling?' in response to 'intelligent design', which I think is a bit much. But yeah, put us back in geocentrism and you do need something like intelligent falling to fill in the gaps.
Yeah it’s funny to compare yourself now when you touched some real thinkers and real wisdom and years ago when you thought charlatans like Dawkins were worth trusting :)
Because modern so called atheists is a popular religious cult of its own, they tend to cancel anyone challenging it, because of lack of better arguments.
Natural scientist by education and degrees and raised in implicitly atheistic soviet family in my pursuit of truth I started noticing more and more evidence of the world picture without God not making much sense and fundamentally incomplete, flawed in many ways. Also it is heavily pushed down modern western people’s throats with very little real scientific support for its foundational claims.
Also noticing people pursuing their own agenda and manipulating others with “atheism” religion.
A lot of thinking, logical reasoning and a sprinkle of personal unusual experiences eventually made obvious for me that there is much more to all this than meets the eye. And there must be some deity.
Nobody knows for certain what or who he is, but world with him is much more credible model of reality than without. And by definition he can’t be “proved” so I believe in him technically, though it feels like I know.
Also on a personal note (as you see from many comments here) - many so called atheists are arrogant people (in same way as religious radicals), while most true believers I met are more humble about their faith. Though it is definitely a biased perspective. But still Id rather be associated with best religion thinkers (like for example vast majority of mideveal thinkers that shaped our modern civilization) rather than with so called atheists who tend think they are the center of the universe.
> This leads me to believe that most people either get lucky and then apply a framework in retrospect to justify their luck
Yes, congratulations on finding the truth.
This is the pattern 95% of business, psychology and other pseudoscience is built upon.
The 2 main system reasons behind it: 1) any complex system cannot be really calculated farther in the future than a very short timeframe 2) natural human brain tendency to organize the observed universe into patterns.
The good news is that if you keep buying lottery tickets your chances of winning at least once also grow.
BEAM distribution + consistent hashing. Entities are assigned to nodes by their ID. If a node goes down, the hash ring updates and surviving nodes pick up its entities. Litestream continuously streams SQLite WAL changes to S3 so you can restore from the last segment.
The clustering and rebalance coordinator are implemented and tested with multi-node BEAM peers, but I'll be honest, I haven't run it in a multi-server production deployment yet. Single-node with Litestream backup is what I'm running in production right now. Recovery from backup takes seconds, not minutes.
True multi-node HA is architecturally ready but not battle-tested at scale yet. v0.1.
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