RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
August 24, 2017 at 12:49 pm
(August 24, 2017 at 12:39 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Excellent question. The answer is it makes no difference whatsoever. In the end we only can understand what we can and abandoning our self determination to some hypothetical uber-being is not an option.
Yep. It's like the question of our being in the Matrix (and not the proper Doctor Who version). We have to face reality on the terms that we're given. If there is some kind of higher whatever so impossibly above our understanding, what are we supposed to do about it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
