(May 10, 2011 at 4:26 pm)Napoleon666 Wrote:(May 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm)coffeeveritas Wrote:(May 7, 2011 at 4:15 pm)Ace Otana Wrote:(May 7, 2011 at 3:45 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: This exactly proves the point above. Without a concept of purpose your life is sad and inhibited.
Atheists have a concept of purpose. We can make our own. We can be more than we are, religion is not required. Life is only sad if you need a belief in god in order to see any purpose.
Atheists are not sad, they are not without purpose, they are free.
This is something I'm very interested in Ace. I've never had this explained to me, but what exactly is the sense of purpose for an Atheist, and where does meaning ultimately come from? Of course I recognize the diversity of takes here, but I wonder what the gist is here. Maybe I should start a thread on this, I'm very interested in what philosophy different atheists have. I suspect there's a lot of common ground.
I think the basic trend is that we don't need a god to give us purpose. We can find purpose in simply what makes us happy.
So what you're saying is that you don't need no Man to feel good about yo'self!
"simply what makes us happy" has a very Zen quality to it.
This is interesting, I totally have to do a thread.