(May 23, 2018 at 11:19 am)mh.brewer Wrote:(May 23, 2018 at 10:28 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Let's not confuse hope with enjoyment. Sure you can enjoy life but that in itself isn't meaningful. You can build stuff but it will all fall to ruin eventually. You can hope our ancestors will carry on, but then they will die too, if not now, then eventually when the universe itself dies. If human existence is extinguished by death and all our legacies erased by time then there isn't anything to hope for beyond that boundary.
So you need the fantasy mental crutch to give your life meaning. Got it.
If you think life's meaning is whatever we each individually choose it to be, then why be bothered by a person who finds meaning in believing there's a God?
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
