RE: How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
August 25, 2016 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2016 at 5:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 25, 2016 at 2:50 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Eventually the reductive view of Man prevails leaving atheists with the bleak conviction that human beings are electro-chemical reactions advanced by chance and necessity. We are only physical and purely physical things aren’t about anything; they just are. That perspective is literally dehumanizing because it dismisses as illusions the very things that make us human, such as rationality, signification, choice, and personal identity.
What would be dehumanizing about a recognition of precisely what we were, if that's what we were? Do you suddenly stop loving Bach or something? Seems like a stretch. This is a common and amatuerish criticism of -any- increased specificity in understanding...that if things are not as magical as you believe them to be, they are somehow illusory. Rationality, signification, choice, personal identity...all of these things are as real to me sans magic as they are to you as components of magic. The only difference between us, in context........is that I'm not advocating for deepities masquerading as profundity. I'm not a common religious con with delusions of philosophical grandeur.
Quote:As I see it, hope is not about clinging to comforting illusions; but the choice to leave open the possibility that human beings are more than we think they are.Um..............
Just tossing this out there....but maybe electro chemical reactions advanced by chance and necessity can love Bach? That would certainly -seem- to be the case...if that's what we are. Maybe you're giving electro chemical reactions a short shrift? What, about this, demands transcendence from anything? Confusingly...seeing as how this transcendence doesn't appear to have any referant -beyond- what are very clearly your own hopes and comforts........wtf are you going on about?
More bitingly, did you -need- to lead in with all that fiction about atheism and your atheist days, was there some compulsion, just to drone a common apologists argument- as if you were little more than an electro chemical reaction? Is there anything to you, anything at all, beyond the maintenance of these arguments? Do you love Bach, for example......
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