(August 28, 2015 at 11:17 am)lkingpinl Wrote:What gives life meaning? I have a wife and family and enjoy spending my days with them and supporting them. I have hobbies and interests and a job. I find this satisfactory.(August 28, 2015 at 11:10 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Why must there be a meaning? What difference does it make to your day to day life?
Because deep within I believe we all question and seek answers to four major questions.
Origin
Meaning
Morality
Destiny
Where do I come from?
What gives life meaning?
How do I differentiate between good and bad?
What happens to a human being when he or she dies?
The atheistic worldviews answers to these questions, I find depressing. I think most people have a longing for life after the grave, we feel there is something more. May be not all people, but most.
Atheism says we are a cosmic accident, each person defines their own meaning, each person defines their own good, and then dust. To me, personally, that is depressing.
How do I differentiate between good or bad? I don't know about you but i have this thing called empathy where I can place myself in another persons situation and imagine how they would feel if I acted a certain way. As an evolved social animal I act in accordance with what causes the least societal stress. It's not rocket science.
What happens to a human when we die? Nothing, we end and that's it.
You seem to need external forces that are based on wishful thinking to give your life meaning, I find this sad.
Where do I come from? My family and further back the animals I evolved from.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
