RE: The most beautiful thing to me about the world.
November 13, 2017 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2017 at 2:09 pm by Jackie.)
Mystic,
OF COURSE the world is full of beautiful things. We'd agree if a Christian or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist said the the same thing. YES, there is lots of wonderful awesome things in life.
My mom was AWESOME. My best friend John a liberal redneck from Oklahoma, IS AWESOME. My cat Sarah, he is AWESOME TOO.
I think the ocean is awesome to look at on a sunny warm calm day. I think a pretty night time sky is AWESOME to look at.
But cancer is NOT awesome. Famine and pollution are NOT awesome. Child rape is NOT awesome. War is not awesome. Hurricanes are powerful, but suck for those in it's path. Volcanos suck if you get stuck in their path. Meteors hit planets in our solar system all the time, just look at the pock marks in the moon. They could very easily do to humans what one did to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The only difference between you, and a Christian and a Jew and a Hindu and a Buddhist and an atheist like me, is I don't assign good or bad to old writings or holy people.
Are there pretty things in life? ABSOLUTELY. Are there good humans worldwide? ABSOLUTELY! Can you be good and do good? ABSOLUTELY!
But the atheist does not see either good or bad, between humans, or even natural disaster as being some magical thing regulating us controlled by a divine source.
OF COURSE the world is full of beautiful things. We'd agree if a Christian or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist said the the same thing. YES, there is lots of wonderful awesome things in life.
My mom was AWESOME. My best friend John a liberal redneck from Oklahoma, IS AWESOME. My cat Sarah, he is AWESOME TOO.
I think the ocean is awesome to look at on a sunny warm calm day. I think a pretty night time sky is AWESOME to look at.
But cancer is NOT awesome. Famine and pollution are NOT awesome. Child rape is NOT awesome. War is not awesome. Hurricanes are powerful, but suck for those in it's path. Volcanos suck if you get stuck in their path. Meteors hit planets in our solar system all the time, just look at the pock marks in the moon. They could very easily do to humans what one did to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The only difference between you, and a Christian and a Jew and a Hindu and a Buddhist and an atheist like me, is I don't assign good or bad to old writings or holy people.
Are there pretty things in life? ABSOLUTELY. Are there good humans worldwide? ABSOLUTELY! Can you be good and do good? ABSOLUTELY!
But the atheist does not see either good or bad, between humans, or even natural disaster as being some magical thing regulating us controlled by a divine source.
