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Question: Can we believe in any God or experience love without!.!.!.!? !?
memory!? What if we don't have the ability to remember anything, sort of like constant amnesia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The capacity to love and believe are innate in human beings!.

However, we both believe and love for various reasons (upbringing, experience, reliance on authority, etc)!. All of these things are intimately tied to our memories!. Thus, if we were to lose our memories, we would not believe the same or love the same!. The capacity TO believe and love would remain constant; but our emotional triggers (based on memory) would be changed!.

It's interesting to look at amnesia victims!. Often, people experiencing amnesia develop completely different personalities and tastes than they had before their condition set in!. They love foods they previously hated, did things they never did before, and are even attracted to different types of people!. They quite literally become new people!.

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Your thought experiment and/or question is quite strange!.

I think that the love of acquiring knowledge and awe and wonder are inherent in our being!. I think that we want to know why!. Apparently the benign God does not tell us why!. Thus we may never know why!. But I forgot that in 12 hours I will have to start over but still will not know why!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

God then love next is memory there is no connection logically for these threeWww@QuestionHome@Com

No, you could not!. You would be like a new-born baby every day, every minute!. In order to have emotions or believe in something you need to think/know these things exist!. Without memory you wouldn't!.

Add: "Let's say that you had the ability to remember up to 12 Hours and anything after that you forget everything!."

Did you just watch the movie '50 First Dates!?'

"Suppose you were led to believe in God; suppose further that you were convinced that this God exist!. Then you wake up another day forgetting everything!."

There is no way that you could be led to believe in some sort of supernatural being in 12 hours!. Or fall in love in 12 hours!. If you woke up every morning with a blank slate you wouldn't know how to talk, what you even were, how to walk, nothing!. It would be chaos for you!. THINK about it!.

ADD: "Then love and believing is all in memory!? Or is it an inherent part of our being!?"

We have the ability, the mechanism, as humans!. That is inherent!. But you need the knowledge, the experience 'spark' that mechanism and you need reasons to love!. If you have no memory you are, again, like a new-born baby!. They don't believe in a god or love anyone!. They have the potential for that but even after 12 hours they do not love anyone or even have the concept of 'others' or 'love' or 'god' or 'good' or 'evil' or anything!. Even after weeks or months they do not have this although they are building love of the mother!.

Emotions don't magically appear out of nowhere!. Emotions are our response to our values!. If you love someone then you love them for reasons!. They are honest, funny, kind, sexy, intelligent!. They touch your hair in a certain way, They have self-confidence,!. Etc, etc!. As you learn these things you fall in live with them!. If you couldn't remember these things - and didn't even know you were human after 12 hours - how would you love them!? Memory is a fundamental part of our identity as humans!. Without memory we are not human!. We are a shell!.Www@QuestionHome@Com