RE: How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
August 25, 2016 at 4:25 pm
(August 25, 2016 at 3:47 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I suspect you are right about that. I feel intuitively that what we are is not exclusively up to us. But as creatures with the capacity for reason and accustomed to encoding understanding in symbolic language it can easily come to feel that way. So I find I'm fairly immune to feelings of despair over the isolation inherent in the human condition. No magic required. Just an openness to the what more there is within without rushing to judgement.
Just to be clear, I am not judging atheists as people, but rather atheism as an intellectual commitment. That said, I agree that individually people vary, mentally and physically, by accident or outside influences.
I see, in the capacity to use reason and discover about-ness, both of which you referenced, signs of something that transcends pure physicality - something common that binds us together as participants in a world richly endowed with meaning. If that is what you call magic, then I say we should embrace it.
