RE: New atheist here, gotta say, not loving it
November 4, 2017 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2017 at 7:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 4, 2017 at 5:41 am)Odoital77 Wrote: No, as I said earlier. "On atheism there is no grounds for having hope. You simply have the life you appear to have now, and when it is over...you are over. Nothing that you say, do, or feel has any ultimate meaning or significance.No god meaning, therefore no meaning? A bit of a stretch, don't you think? Besides, if all you have is ultimate meaning, then you don;t have any super ultra mega ultimate meaning.............................
Quote:If I somehow found myself an atheist, I can imagine myself feeling much the same way. Knowing myself, I would likely end up killing myself through destructive addictive behavior, probably by way of the abuse of alcohol and use of prostitutes.........therefore Hookers and Blow!
Quote:Thankfully, I'm free from that kind of existence as a Christian. I would invite you to reconsider the truth of theism and Christianity in particular.Neat trick. Why, do you suppose, that other christians are all about hookers and blow and meaningless lives? It seems that you haven't all gotten the memo.
Quote:That has nothing to do with an imaginary friend. It has to do with the fact that there is no ultimate basis for meaning on atheism. And yes, merely because I would likely succumb to destructive behaviors if I didn't know the truth about reality doesn't mean that everyone else would to that, though I would point out that plenty of people poison their bodies and destroy their lives in just the ways I described, as well as many others. But yeah, there are people who don't realize, are able to ignore or otherwise compartmentalize the consequences of their views and are not drastically affected by their consequences of their views as I would be. Those people can certainly live multi-decade lives that look very much like those of any other average Joe.Or maybe meaninglessness and hookers and blow isn't a consequence of atheism? I mean, we all know that;s just a consequence of tuesdays, right?
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