RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 5, 2019 at 11:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2019 at 11:16 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(March 5, 2019 at 10:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote:There is no such thing as "mind". What there are, are brains and brain processes, and they exist, because they promote evolutionary survival.(March 5, 2019 at 9:58 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: The existential truth about any god not only is not hidden, but as it's undefined, does not even merit any position with respect to it.
It's (the idea) nothing but acculturation and a bad habit.
The idea has no more value than that of Pink Sparkly Unicorns.
Yeah, maybe. It depends on what value depends for you. I'd like very much to know why there is mind rather than a lack of it, for example-- or why anything exists at all.
Is there value in thinking about this stuff, or speculating? Not in the sense that you'll ever get a definitive answer, and not in the sense that you'll have some advantage in putting food on the table.
Pink Sparkly Unicorns have little interest for me. But the philosophical quantity or entity which allows for existence-- that's fundamentally interesting, without regard to its value beyond having something deep to think about.
Why anything exists at all is a Physics problem. Not a god problem. Same old bad habit at work.
Without healthy functioning brains, in every single case, there is not one instance of "mind".
The fact you don't have an answer to something never justifies jumping to "well maybe god done it", whether you call that an "unknown in a box" or an "entity".
A philosophical entity would have to itself exist, therefore to say that one "allows for existence'' is not only meaningless,
but impossible, as it would have had to create the Reality it requires itself to exist, (and that's one of the insurmountable problems that makes ANY god incoherent). Existence is not nothing.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist