RE: Share your worldview?
February 6, 2018 at 6:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2018 at 6:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 6, 2018 at 5:56 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I don't think you let fairy tales in the tent merely by answering I don't know to certain overly ambitious questions.That's probably not the intent, but that is what happens. Would it sound softer if I said that the religious take advantage of a persons willingness to negotiate with the truth? Individually, yes, but more depressingly, collectively. In whats becoming a pattern, I don't see the notion of afterlives as an "ambitious question" anyway, so..meh. They started and ended as nothing more or less than stories we tell.
Quote:From the outside death looks like rot and ruin. From the inside .. should we ask Rik? (Please God, no.) Maybe it feels like falling into a black hole, an admittedly useless comparison but just packed full of suggestiveness. But if anyone wants to say "but you don't know what happens after you die firsthand". I'm happy to admit I haven't crossed that river yet.There's no need to cross that river to be able to make factually binding pronouncements. No more so than I need to gouge out my eyes to establish that this will make me blind, or smash my head with a rock to establish that this will make me see -nothing- regardless of the eyes still being in their sockets.
Quote:Doesn't mean I attach any probability greater than zero to the likelihood of the xtian version. And it isn't like my claim to know the unknowable will make the least impression on the relentlessly gullible.What unknowable? Your considering it, or even speaking of it in terms as the unknowable helps them to feel more comfortable in their gullibility or ignorance. Armed with that knowledge, they then feel justified, incidentally by you, to allow said ignorance to inform their actions in the living world, this life. None of the older, "sillier" fairy tales ever just died off. They only disappeared when they were treated with the contempt, derision, ridicule, and uncompromising acknowledgement of their complete vacuity...all of which they richly deserve..... that they ever went away and stopped fucking with people.
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