Learning about crossovers helped convert me from atheist to a believer in God


Let’s see if this one survives.    

I have been an atheist for 50 years.  Recently I became a believer.  One factor that helped tip the scales is the “fine tuned universe” argument - the idea that the physics constants, e.g. the mass of an electron, are so finely “selected” that if they weren’t very close to what they are, life wouldn’t exist.  This is an argument for a creator.  The best counter argument seems to be that there are an infinite number of universes and we got lucky.  

When I got into audio, and started learning about crossovers, I was ASTOUNDED at how well the pieces fit together.  Octaves are exact doubles of frequency.  3dB describes so many seemingly unrelated phenomena.  But the one that really got me was the magic of capacitors and inductors.  They share no parts, other than wires sticking out at each end (usually), one acts due to voltage, one acts due to electromagnetism, one resists AC, one resists DC.  And yet, somehow, they are mirror images of each other, using almost exactly the same equations, behaving perfectly orthogonal to each other, even to the extent of how powerfully they perform their function (3dB again).  How is this possible?  Could this have happened due to random chance?  I smell a creator.  

alanhuth

When the OP talks about the magic of capacitors and inductors he is just showing his ignorance.  Which makes me wonder does ignorance generate religion?

At the same time, at the level of bosons, leptons, the four fundamental forces and three dimensions plus time it is pretty amazing what evolved.  But it's even more amazing that we (our species) can comprehend what happened.

In the end, I just can’t get past the unrequited evil thing.  If there is a Creator, then why did he make it possible to create gas ovens to murder millions of people?  Or give an innocent small child a disease like spinal meningitis and suffer a horribly painful demise?  I could go on ad infinitum here.  Supposedly this is all part of a grand plan, and every awful bit is a necessary part of the Creator’s Grand Jigsaw Puzzle.  Sorry, this into a puzzle that I wish to play.

  Your capacitor works well?  Great.  Your stereo is sounding good?  Enjoy.  There is no need to postulate a divinity as being the cause of any of these things 

   

I was once a communist- which is a religion. In my youth it seemed like a fair deal- we all work together and share. The obvious problem is the nature of man- pride and greed prohibit this utopianism. As time passed it became obvious to me that intelligent design is supported by the greater weight of the evidence. Then came the obvious conflict- if good why evil?  My conclusion was pure love requires free will. Free will leads to choices for good and/or for evil. I am free to conform or free to rebel. Conform to what? to Good. Who or what is the ultimate Good? The Thrice Holy God. And the ultimate evil? He or that which stands in opposition to God- who is The Perfect Good and pure Love. It takes faith to believe in that which one cannot see- or completely comprehend. It takes much more faith to believe He does not exist and will not ultimately reconcile all things to Himself. 

It is extraordinary that men does not know what is free will...

All there is in the world perceived as evil comes from men...

The rest is accident and wait for human awakeness.... My body will go to the floor soon and i will quit it...So what ? my consciousness is not my body...

Consciousness is the only existing reality.... All there which occur, occur between consciousness...

Nothing is forgotten ... The information field is infinite... His image is number theory itself...

The OP stumbled on a phenomenon that has awaken his memory of the source so what ?

I bought a book about mammal physiology , the best ever, 1,500 pages, reading it , it is impossible not to enter in awe ....

Someone studying projective geometry who does not stay in awe dont really see geometry music..

Acoustic is a mystery... Studying it is becoming awake.... Everything speak of the ONE or the source...

Linguistic is so deep that it rival mathematic...And it speak about an intelligence exceeding any human speaker... We use divine tool without even knowing what we did when speaking... Study linguistic and awake yourself...

Only those willing to stay blind and deaf for a short time for a reason of their own free choices thinks that death is the only reality for a very short time ( 80 years average )...

The only self sustaining process is unconditional love , it is the only universal infinite process which remember anything as if it was HIM who goes into the process... HIM is the paradoxically impersonnal source manifested as a single consciousness... Call it God or your mother or an ant... No difference... it is the same HIM and it is the same THAT...

I dont believe all that i just written...

I perceive it , i imagine it in a creative way , i read it in mathematics as the law of the infinite...I felt it inside me...

How many people know that all Cantor transfinite theory pre-axiomatization comes from the three contemplative methods of a mystic : Pseudo-Dyonisos the Areopagite.. If mathematic fundamental theory itself is based on spiritual vision of the infinite, why negating his value without grasping it first ?

Men are free to stay where they are and free to be no more slaves of the corporations.. They are lazy...

They prefer to say to someone : you wear a "tin foil hat"...

The staggering ignorance because people want to keep their beliefs is staggering...

For someone who open his eyes there is no more beliefs, because he look at thing in a creative imaginative way , he dont need to imagine them obeying his past dead passive imaginations... if you want to know the difference between passive and active imagination, between corpse and living entities study geometry or biology and the crux of the matter LINK THE TWO TOGETHER... Specialization is the death of science but the bread and salt of industrial technology...Any true scientist become a philosopher... Because science must be way more than mere technology it must become personal knowledge... Wisdom...

Opening his eyes is call thinking... Thinking is putting together all there is in one vision...

Separating things from one another is not thinking...

Hubris is not wisdom...But there is an "intelligence" in hubris and an "intelligence" in wisdom... Dont confuse them... Discern between them...

Bill Gates is not Archimedes...