RE: New atheist here, gotta say, not loving it
November 3, 2017 at 11:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2017 at 11:25 pm by Rayden_Greywolf.)
(November 3, 2017 at 11:14 pm)Hammy Wrote: If you never truly believed then what have you lost? I don't understand. Did you not believe you'd go to heaven?
As a kid, I believed that, yeah. I guess I'm having a hard time explaining it.
I lost hope, but...its more that I've never "gained" anything, in growing up. No purpose, no meaning, nothing.
(November 3, 2017 at 11:20 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(November 3, 2017 at 11:13 pm)Rayden_Greywolf Wrote: What transcended goodness?I wouldn't know, people have wildly divergent ideas on that. I'm simply suggesting that if you saw it in anything before apart from god..it;s still there now..and if you only saw it in god before..it was never there to begin with. There's just no change.
Quote:I don't really know how to answer your response about me and my family. Maybe that makes me a heartless monster, I don't know.LOL, oh I think we can shoot lower than all that. Some people aren't fulfilled by life or family. If you weren't before, it's no surprise that you aren't now. If you were before..well...you're still alive and they still exist.
Quote:I should mention I never really "truly" believed. I grew up in a Christian household, but when I was able to start thinking for myself, I eventually realized I had no reason to believe in it. I never had faith in anything.Okay then. Have you always felt that there was no transcendant good and no reason for suffering and life was meaningless and there's no point in doing anything? Your earlier comments seemed to indicate a change, and a change that had something to do with atheism..but if you've always been an atheist..........?
The change is that I was clinging onto the hope that all that stuff was there, and now I've given up trying to force that fantasy. But now that leaves me with no reason to get out of bed in the morning.