(July 25, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:

(July 25, 2016 at 8:30 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Only religious people attribute additives that are meaningless.

Bullshit.

How so?

We're all meaningeless little snowflakes striving for their own subjective meaning. I can haz meaning in that.

Aburdism > Nihilism

(July 25, 2016 at 8:50 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:

(July 25, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Bullshit.

How so?

It's not only religious people that can ascribe meaningless additives.

I'm ok with not having a grand meaning for life. If there's anything that my own life is about at the moment, it's raising my child to be a good person.

But, as the late, great Carl Sagan said - "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

Hallmark cards writer here:

Life is good, but we must croak it in the end.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY!

(July 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

You don't really choose your meaning, you know that as well as I do.

(July 25, 2016 at 9:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Hallmark cards writer here:

Life is good, but we must croak it in the end.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY!

That is ageist.

(July 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:

(July 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

You don't really choose your meaning, you know that as well as I do.

Ultimately there is no free choice, yes.

Our values are part of who we are as people, as opposed to being dictated for us by some supernatural bullshit. That's all I meant

(July 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:

(July 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

You don't really choose your meaning, you know that as well as I do.

If you don't believe in a skydaddy, you are quite free to perceive what life is about through your own filters instead of what your religion tells you. My own filter is science-based.