How do atheists do life?

[vulcanlogician]

Secondly, I don't think we on this forum have any influence at all on the quality of the world. If we think we're working to protect America from idiots, whether they're Christian or anything else, by posting here, we're flattering ourselves.

From one high-minded idealist to another, I think people on the forum (for the most part) are just here to read other people's posts and respond with posts of there own. They're just hanging out and posting stuff (which is really what a forum is supposed to facilitate). Sure, there are a plethora of other motivations to be found. (Some people are motivated to change the world for the better. Others want to get knee-deep in shit and start slinging.) But for the most part, people come here to hang out and have interesting discussions. It's kinda like bullshitting about guns and whiskey only with different subject matter and without the accompanying claim that it's all in service to the creator of the universe.

As for Buber, I and Thou is where it all starts. Are you into Christian existentialism at all? Kierkegaard, etc.? Buber is Jewish but will be familiar to you if you're into that.

Put any well-crafted, challenging work of philosophy in front of me and I'll get nourishment from it. I love philosophy. I like the Greeks (especially Plato), and I have an enormous soft spot for 19th Century American philosophy. Other than that, I enjoy the entire buffet. Spinoza and Nietzsche are on my favorites list. What about you? I know you like Plato, but who else do you dig?

I've not completed a work by Kierkegaard but I have absorbed many of his ideas from secondary sources. I find his thinking interesting. I know very little about Buber, which is why I'd like to read one of his works. (He was a critic of Gandhi's passive resistance, I believe, which is more than enough reason for me to explore his thinking--since I'm such a fan of it.)

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My assumption is that you're just trolling us, since your post is full of lies.  I'm surprised some of my fellow atheists took it seriously enough to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Damn. You may be right. Fucking Poe's law! I'm such a sucker for that shit.