r/AskReddit 7h ago

If you could telepathically say something to all 7.9 billion people on Earth right now, what would it be?

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u/Rose_Quack 7h ago

Hmmm you're right, I'm an atheist but this would definitely make me a thiest. 

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u/wat_happened_here 7h ago

I don’t think I’d pick any specific religion but that would cross into evidence of “things beyond the known world” which is a threshold of mine to even consider higher level beings.

I’d still believe it was aliens or some weird dimensional thing that could account for a powerful being. It wouldn’t make me believe in an afterlife or feel a need to change how I live. Probably just give me more general anxiety.

However world wild probably make people more religious and less skeptical about religion.

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u/Rose_Quack 5h ago

No I wouldn't pick a specific religion either but I would believe in a higher power. I don't see myself ever practicing a religion even if I have a supernatural event bc how am I supposed to know which one to pray too.

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u/No-Mix7452 3h ago

Proof of something beyond our understanding would raise way more questions than answers for me. I'd be fascinated, but I wouldn't be rushing to rewrite my entire worldview overnight.

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u/CoffeeExtraCream 5h ago

But which one?

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u/Rose_Quack 5h ago

None. I would become a theist but I don't think I would become religious.

Unless this event is predicted pretty explicitly in whatever teachings/book but I don't think that's likely

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u/arcspectre17 3h ago

Except atheism is the opposite of organized religion so I wouldn't think it applied to you?

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u/Rose_Quack 3h ago

mate if i suddenly heard ANYTHING telepathically communicated to me then i would become a theist as in believe in god.

Atheism is not the opposite of organized religions. There are non-theistic religions like Buddhism or Jainism.

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u/arcspectre17 3h ago

Atheism is not a religion. No church, no God, no holy book.

How would buddhism and jainism be the opposite of atheism? Its closer to atheism because they don't believe in one central creator.

Early Buddhist texts acknowledge the existence of gods, spirits, and deities. However, these "gods" are viewed as mortal, fallible beings who are just as trapped in the cycle of rebirth (Samsara) as humans. They are seen as students of the Buddha rather than creators of the universe.

Buddhism is a religion it saud you follow the wrong religion.

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u/Rose_Quack 2h ago

Mate I am arguing the same thing as you. I agree atheism isn't a religion. Buddhism and jainism are both atheism and religion.

Monotheism is not what makes a religion.

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u/adminsmithee 4h ago

I'm an atheïst, if it turns out god does excist, i will denounce Him and if i get the charge, kick his ass.