RE: The Batlord Cometh
July 29, 2015 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2015 at 4:38 pm by Alex K.)
(July 29, 2015 at 2:33 pm)The Batlord Wrote:(July 29, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Alex K Wrote: Welcome!
However, if being wrong makes you sacrifice a significant part of your all too short life to a bullshit idea, being right has a clear advantage.
I've never known atheists to be any happier than anyone else, and if there is no intrinsic happiness benefit to being right, then I don't see it necessarily as an advantage on the individual level.
Then you should get out more.
But even if I granted you that one, is happiness really the final arbiter? To borrow a famous quote, a drunkard is happy, but does that make it desirable to be continuously intoxicated?
I think that your view, if you are really serious about it, inevitably leads to absolute nihilism, because if one does not value truth, I do think one cannot value anything. As an example, imagine you are convinced that you will meet your loved ones again after death. You may spend less time with them now, might even treat them worse because you know that you have eternity to make up for it. Would you not consider this tragic? Not caring would mean not caring about your relationship with your loved ones.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
