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Meaningfulness v meaninglessness; theism vs atheism;
RE: Meaningfulness v meaninglessness; theism vs atheism;
Quote:I'm alright, Ace. Doing a lot better than I was a few months ago, but I generally can't complain. Good to see ya again, my friend. Big Grin
It's good to hear that. I had only one down but have had many ups over the past few months. All is well.Big Grin

Quote:I find that to not only be a very depressing answer, but a very telling one, as well.
You find that depressing? I don't. I'm ok with it. Something someone said kinda made me feel kinda special in a whole different way than simply having a purpose.
We are made up of star matter, and as he put it which I liked "we are the cosmos looking at itself and trying to understand itself". We are the cosmos looking at itself. Though without a meaning or purpose, we exist only because of random chance events. Nothing more than a coincidence. This doesn't make me look badly on everything but looking at everything in a positive way.


I guess for theists it can be seen as depressive. Especially if you see reality without a god, without an afterlife and without purpose. Like when we die, we cease to exist. We will never come back. To go back into oblivion and to never return. Never to see loved ones. Nothing. Thing is, religion is filled with lovely thoughts like never dying, will see lost loved ones again and all the bad guys get what's coming to'em. But it really is all fairytale.
I guess when after looking at everything in such a positive way that any view that is without such ideals would seem depressive.
Animals always seem to die such horrible deaths. Most of the time they die by being ripped apart. Some animals are eaten alive and have to bare unimaginable pain. That is reality. Same as we, when we die. When our time is up, we are so fucked, we go back into oblivion but this time permanently. When someone dies, they're gone for good. You'll never see or hear from them again.
Religion offers a blanket to make things seem nicer, but it doesn't change reality. Just because we can think and understand doesn't mean we get to live forever. It doesn't mean we have any purpose or meaning.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Meaningfulness v meaninglessness; theism vs atheism; - by Ace Otana - January 27, 2011 at 2:54 pm

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