I don’t know about dots, but “existence” either had a beginning or it did not. And a God, the God, your God is either embedded in there somewhere or He is not.
And mere mortals here on this teeny tiny planet in the staggering vastness of what may or may not be the multiverse, either have some level of autonomy or they do not.
All I can come back to then is the extent to which what you believe about all of this “in your head” is something that you can demonstrate that all reasonable men and women ought to believe in turn.
Whatever that even means given the gap between what any particular one of us might believe and that which would need to be known in order to grasp it all, say, objectively, essentially, wholly?
And that’s before we get to the specific aim of this thread: exploring the dots that connect the behaviors we choose on this side of the grave and whatever is to be our fate on the other side of it.
A lot of things believed on this thread have seemed silly to me.
But you’re the one who is “trying to made sense of things”. Why muddy it with the concept of obligations in a determined universe? A determined universe only has “mindless” motion.
But isn’t that what sites like this were created for: to explore these relationships? To ponder the extent to which the mindful matter [us] that has evolved in what [given God] may or may not [ultimately] be a mindless universe, is able to fathom [ontologically, teleologically] existence?
Unless of course we are all just characters [or caricatures] created in some unimaginably mysterious entity’s simulated reality.
Sure, maybe even God’s. Maybe even your God’s.
Things are as they appear to be. If this is a simulation, then there is no way to know that it is a simulation.
Unless, of course, there is a God [your God] and He maps it all out for you in Paradise.
Just out of curiosity, how close or how far is this from what you believe “in your head” now?