(March 18, 2017 at 10:12 am)Little Rik Wrote: Atheists keep on saying that they follow logic but in reality they go against logic.
But let me put in simple terms what is and is not logic.
Most people feel satisfied after eating or after having sex or after they got a new car.
Unfortunately this feeling of satisfaction doesn't last very long indeed.
After a short time that feeling goes away and the action need to be done once again and again and again.
In this way most people think that this repetition is the way to go and therefore it is logic and make sense.
This is not logic.
Logic is when the feeling of satisfaction is permanent not temporary.
Smart people come to understand that physical-material things can not possibly bring a permanent
state of peace of mind and happiness that is why they work on actions that fulfill a state of permanent
feeling.
Peace of mind come from within so the work need to be done within.
Forget about an external God.
The real God is you and is all within.
You only need to understand who you are, all the rest will follow.
Wow, what a giant wall of woo.
You contradict yourself by talking about "satisfaction" at first then your last sentence is "You only need to understand who you are, all the rest will follow"..... Um plenty of individuals are satisfied with whom they are and also dead wrong at the same time. Trump would be a prime example. This entire post is woo, not logic. You basically said "feeling good is temporary" then end it by saying "understand yourself". No this does not work because human perceptions even of oneself can be and often are notoriously flawed.
Logic is a process, good logic follows a pragmatic process. None of this post expresses a process. How you think to insure quality of data is what matters.
"Peace of mind", more woo. Again, lots of people are at peace with being greedy, others are at peace with being poor, others are at peace with being violent.
If the word you are looking for is "introspective" that would be better, but even then, being introspective isn't enough. To know if you are right, you don't simply say "peace of mind", that is simply a woo way of convincing oneself they are right.
Reality isn't about denying oneself no, but neither is convincing oneself and this post really sounds more like an emotional post and not logic.
This post is totally ambiguous and could be used by anyone to justify anything to call it logic.
