Worship
The act of showing reverence, adoration, or deep respect toward a deity, higher power, or something regarded as sacred. It can also mean giving great honor or devotion to a person, idea, or object.
Makes sense to me as to why.
To transcend oneself, one must be willing to devote themselves to something greater than them.
So is worshipping bitcoin considered good and moral? Since it is greater than us.
Technology can enhance life, but it can’t define what makes life worth living.
Technology is meant to be a tool, not a source of value itself.
I think those who worship Bitcoin have either replaced God with a man-made construct, similar to those who worship the state, or they’re worshipping the ideals that Bitcoin embodies and incentivizes.
Religions are all man made constructs as well.
There certainly is no evidence that they were made by anything else but humans. This doesn’t necessarily mean that god doesn’t exist. I just don’t believe that god is what religion tells us it is.
But why is worshipping bitcoin bad?
Why is showing reverence, adoration, or deep respect toward bitcoin bad?
And why would devoting yourself to bitcoin be bad? Bitcoin is greater than all of us after all. If worshipping god is good, then why wouldn’t worshipping other lesser, but still good, things like bitcoin be considered evil?
My thoughts are that God can only exist if we believe in Him, and we only exist because of God.
If we were to stop worshipping God and turn our devotion toward something else, God would cease to be and, in turn, so would we.
That is why worshipping something other than God is not good.
If god ceases to exist when we stop worshipping him, then is god really worthy of worship?
That question kinda assumes that divine worth = self-sufficiency and power.
Maybe devine worth = relationality and love
If that was the case, shouldn’t I worship rational humans that love me?
And now we loop back to:
But people worship each other and then stop all the time. Celebrities and politicians are heroes until they’re enemies. Those people existed before and after the worship.
Yeah, people like that have been around for a long time.
But they don’t cease to exist after the worship stops is my point
Okay? 🤔
You argued that we need to worship god or he ceases to exist. But this rule doesn’t apply to other beings.
That's what I think, sure. But why should it apply to other beings?
It doesn’t but if these rules are universal then they should apply to everyone
I do think that if humanity stops believing in itself, it will die.
