(September 13, 2011 at 1:53 am)Shell B Wrote:(September 12, 2011 at 7:53 pm)IATIA Wrote: I am one of those rare professed 100% nihilistic atheists, but I probably know more about the babble-book than most bible thumpers.
I wonder what sort of nihilist you identify as, though I probably disagree with you, if by 100% you mean in every way.
We live in a deterministic universe and our 'free will' is nothing more than our consciousness/awareness 'explaining to our mind' what we have already done. And probably, all of reality is nothing more than a construct of our awareness. (I am still on the bench with that.)
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy