How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
August 31, 2016 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 9:46 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(August 31, 2016 at 9:38 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(August 31, 2016 at 8:22 pm)Whateverist Wrote: You had written:But I'm not using it to deliberate on the issue. I'm ignoring the issue entirely. That was the whole point of what I said.
My point was that evaluations such as "life isn't worth living" or "it's all for nothing" put too much store in the deliberations of the conscious mind. Our efforts at reason can be effective for some kinds of tasks but for others, not so much. Any time someone writes what I bolded I can't help but think they are over thinking it, or at least misapplying a tool for a task it didn't evolve to do.
He was trying to offer you comfort, EP. You said that if you DID think about it, you would feel like life is "all for nothing." Whatevs was trying to take some of that pressure off of your shoulders by explaining that the part of your brain that (perhaps inappropriately) wonders "what it's all for" is only one small fraction of what makes up who you are. So...relax. [emoji41]
(Whatevs, please correct me if I butchered your eloquent description too badly)
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Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
