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All are figments of the brain, under stress by the circumstances. The brain often 'fills in' missing information with what is stored in familiar neural pathways. Nobody sees the blind spot each eyeball has ( where optic nerve connects to retina ), even though every eyeball has one, because the brain makes stuff up for you to see ( and does so pretty accurately ). It is people who place significance and importance on these NDEs and OBEs that are deluded.

On the whole, this has been my experience. The vertical morality bothers me a great deal as well, judging others to place yourself above them.

I left Islam in 1999. Islam and Judaism is similar to each other and are ant-humanity and are male-ism and are ant-woman and are anti-art and are anti-sience and they have taught and have recommended to slavery and enslave and violence. One God theism have been made for one-king dictatorships.

Sensei is purposely confusing judgement with enforcing established rules. He didn't like something I wrote in another thread, and seems to be hyperfixating. I wouldn't worry about it. On the whole, the Abrahamic religions want us to view the father as infallible and all powerful, while the rest of us are stacked up against our weaknesses and judged accordingly. And since this god is unobservable, all the earthly judgement is dispensed by humans. A flawed process for judging flawed people.

There used to be gods for everything ,at least in Greek and Roman religion. Why not an extra God of the Vacuum ? Could give it a name....Miele or Henry?

"Intriguing"/"controversial" statement from someone who suspends and bans people..

If that's all you've got to say, then, I guess, there's nothing more to discuss; good luck with your imagined problem though. 🙏

I would say that our moral intuitions are a combination those social factors and evolutionary ones, but that is only an issue if we think our moral intuitions are a good indicator of moral truth. Given where our moral intuitions come from and how inconsistent they are, I think we can safely say that moral intuitions are not a good indicator of moral facts. Saying "Objective biology based aspects" suggests to me that we might be taking quite different metaethical approaches that may need to be made explicit to avoid talking at cross-purposes with one another. I would say that moral facts, if they exist at all, are objective and universal facts that apply to all free, rational agents across all possible worlds. That perspective isn't really connected with what things happen to harm cooperative species. I suspect you are of a different metaethical view, would that be fair to say?

I mean at age 80 and a bad heart that Einstein might have been considering a personal God. I think under the same conditions an atheist would consider the same. That is where chaplains come in. What makes the cosmos so inspiring? Understanding it is one thing, but I think what makes it so inspiring is the deeper meaning. Escaping death from Nazis Germany. Making ground breaking discoveries and enjoying life seems like a blessed life. But back to Einstein as a Christian could living in the U.S. introduce him to Christian values. He wrote many essays that were more than just philosophies where he looked to improve society and his adopted American life. So the ingredients are there. I’m saying old Einstein is a different man than young Einstein. He lived through WWII. He also wrote a lot about the Jewish people. Maybe he writing the stuff and doesn’t know it shares many Christian values. And maybe while he is in the hospital a chaplain gets him saved. Easier to understand than relativity.