(December 4, 2018 at 8:06 am)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 4, 2018 at 7:59 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: How about your own interests, achievements, and the loves you forge with others? No "isms" involved. No gods, either.
No matter how great an individual I become I will always seek something greater than myself.
I'm a weak, fallen human being with few achievements. There is nothing to atheism but loss and more loss. Loss of identity and any sense of community too.
That's why young non-religious people are turning to toxic ideologies like the "Alt-Right". They need it to fill the void.
Love is greater than myself. Through love I grow. Not just through hate.
Love for my girlfriend, is greater than myself.
Love for fellow man is greater than myself.
Love for family is greater than myself.
Love for knowledge and understanding of the universe is greater than myself.
Love for theater is greater than myself.
Love for my cliënts.
Love for books and series and songs composed by individuals and groups alike.
Collaborations and displays of the human effort. Always building, often faltering and misguided, but Always pushing forward towards either the brink of self-destruction or the attempted self-earned salvation of our species. The human will to try and persist, in spite of failure, shame and the grim uncertainty that lies ahead.
Trust me, if you recognize the many faults we have, you can become attuned to finding whatever points we should admire about the sum of our parts.
There are things greater than any one of us to admire.
"If we go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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