Picture the scenario; you as an athiest have now become the leader of a nation with very advanced technology. You are the full authority, there is no one to answer to and all power to rule is yours. Your scientists have developed a new device so powerful they call it the supernova. It is designed to be the ultimate deterrent from aggression as in 1 push of a button, the one now blinking green on your desktop, the world will be obliterated in a flash so fast that everyone would be dead so fast that the wouldn't even experience pain. The earth would dissappear in one brilliant flash and then nothing.

You believe that death is final, no life after no God to meet. You look at the world around and see that people continue to suffer from all the normal pains, griefs, heartaches, relationship problems. Natural disasters continue to occur. Nations and groups still find reasons for war. The poor continue to be poor and the nutcases still erupt with deadly results. You could end the whole thing in a painless moment and all suffering would be gone in an instant. Everyone is going to die anyway this would be painless for all.

Would you press the button and end suffering?

if not why?

Imagine you could ride a unichorn over a field of chocolate into the dawn of vanila ice cream.



Would you do it?

You are getting more bizarre by the day, marky. Did you stop taking your meds?

I wouldn't press the button. Simply because I want these fuckers to suffer

(January 10, 2013 at 3:50 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: [...] a nation with very advanced technology [...]The poor continue to be poor and the nutcases still erupt with deadly results.

Not compatible with star trek.

I'd press the fucking button. I hate Earth.

(January 10, 2013 at 3:53 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Imagine you could ride a unichorn over a field of chocolate into the dawn of vanila ice cream.



Would you do it?

I couldn't as I don't believe man is the final authority either individually or collectively so the question can arise in the same way. But i'm curious to the way an athiest may decide on this, what would the debate in their head be, what lies under the talk of atheists apart from GOD doesnt exist.

In a more serious form of answer, despite the fact that I don't think it'll actually inform Mark at all: no, I would not push the button. Death may be permanent, final, and feature no afterlife, but that does not absolve me of trying to make the one life we do have here on Earth better. Especially if, as per your hypothetical, I'm some form of civic leader.

I mean, duh. Perhaps I just like tilting at windmills myself.

The asumtion that atheists are a colective is wrong mark.

Read yourself through this forum, we are individuals who all have their different opinions.


Thing is, I find your scenario so inplausible and unlikely that I dont think that I could answere.

(January 10, 2013 at 3:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You are getting more bizarre by the day, marky. Did you stop taking your meds?

lol yes the meds ran out, our budget on the bomb meant we ran out , and that bloody green flashing button is getting on my nerves.

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(January 10, 2013 at 4:05 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: The asumtion that atheists are a colective is wrong mark.

Read yourself through this forum, we are individuals who all have their different opinions.


Thing is, I find your scenario so inplausible and unlikely that I dont think that I could answere.

well thats why I want it to be your choice and your rationale if you have one.