(August 15, 2015 at 2:29 am)robvalue Wrote: I totally and utterly don't get what meaning God is supposed to provide. Is it just part of the indoctrination? I know religion heavily forces people to think there is no meaning without God, but what exactly is this meaning in the first place?
Is it just the fact that you're scoring points and getting ready for the afterlife? Or what? I'm serious, I have no idea. To me, living life as if it's some kind of test for the benefit a weird voyeur would make life pretty bizarre and pointless.
In fact, while waiting for the afterlife, we are taught to see this present life as meaningless and pointless of no value. It's not how long we live that makes life meaningful, but what we do with the time given. Touching people and passing on the energy. When I die, I leave a body of work and I leave somebody who will remember that I made them smile.
When you think about it, it's us who give meaning to god. Let's suppose hypothetically that god exists. He would have no culture, no art, no science, no vocation or anything to occupy his mind other than worry about we're doing. Why else is he so petty?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
