Non-existing objects

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I can't agree that we have no choice but to follow the role embedded in our nature (my bolded).  At best I think you'll find our nature consists of a constellation of predispositions and an assortment of interests not all of which are even known consciously by us.  These vie with one another chaotically.  Even if one subscribed to a theory of determinism I would think the calculus required to predict how all these become resolved in ones life is beyond anyone's understanding.  Therefore it would be naive to suppose that each action a person takes was ever inevitable from any possible point of view - including a divine one.

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Not addressed to me but I can't help but make a plug for self reliance here.  Of course I trust my personal observations and logical reasoning (and intuition for that matter) more than of anyone else.  What choice do I or anyone else have?  If I am incapable of applying my own judgement directly what chance would I have in choosing the correct source of guidance?  Accept no substitutes: we each have a sensory cognitive array on par with anyone else's.  No expert, living or dead, ever started off better equipped than ourselves.  Rather than seek a shortcut by looking over the shoulders of others to crib their answers I suggest we make our own choices.  Right or wrong, we have a better chance of eventually going right when we allow the consequences of our own choices feed back on our own impulses rather than on those that never issued from us in the first place.

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In my experience most atheists like myself do not say 'God doesn't exist'.  They merely never get a satisfactory answer to what it is "a god" refers to.  We then go back about our business knowing that in the minds of those who asked, we now meet the description of one who does not believe in 'god'.  But it was never the case that belief was withheld from any actual god.  From a myriad of descriptions given for 'god', not one of one of them could ever be demonstrated.  Your typical atheist is simply someone getting on with their life who has stopped waiting for a coherent answer to his return question "what is a god?"  But apart from the question "do we believe in god X" it would not have come up.

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You did well.
And you are the first person I met on the internet (among theists and atheists) who says clearly that he doesn't have any Elite (and books/references written by some Elite) to trust more than he trusts himself.

For instance, is it the first time you write something like this (in atheistforums in the least; after being a member since many years)?

Is this your first time on the internet? Nobody I've talked to outside of straw men in Christian propaganda shitshows does that 'elite' crap you're talking about. Where the hell did you find those weirdos who do, or did you just think they were doing that when they weren't as is a common occurrence?