(May 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm)coffeeveritas Wrote: 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.We have our own sense of purpose. We can create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose is to grow, learn, protect loved ones and become more than I am whilst enjoying every minute of my life. I chose this purpose for myself.
No one really needs a religion or god to find a sense of purpose. Some can't imagine purpose without a god, but fail to realise that we are sapient. We can think for ourselves and become more than we are.
I've never had a moment where I felt meaningless. Because I had already a meaning, a meaning I created for myself.
You see, our evolutionary purpose is to survive and reproduce, that is well taken care of, and being sapient, we can think and create our own unique purpose. Become more than we are.
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.
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.
