Do you wish there's a god?

[fredd bear]

Well I don't know about critters like yourself, you're just strangers on the internet. But in my view most people I know, especially as they get older appear lost and bewildered by life, they hunger and seek things, and meanings that never come to fruition, or are far less meaningful than they thought they were. They chase one disappointing idol to the next. 

The atheists seems to believe in a world in which man creates his own meaning, that there's near endless options as to what can constitute as a meaningful life, so to each is own. As a surveyor of meaning, there isn't multiple meanings to life, there's just one, only seen with great effort.  Those who don't see that are just perpetually lost, bewildered and disappointed, chasing after false gods. 

That the world is filled with men just staring at shadows in the cave, in denial  or ignorant of the light outside of it.

So atheists are "lost, bewildered and disappointed"? Nobody told me. 

Do you not realise that is an old and very lame christian myth?

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I wasn't aware that atheists are an homogenous group. .

My position is the meaning of life isn't at all complicated or hard to understand. There isn't one.* The purpose of life is itself.

As far as human beings go generally, not just atheists,  I agree with Voltaire, who said "most men lead lives of quiet desperation"

Not a popular view. I tend to accept it because one of my self labels is 'cynic'.


* this view is supported by the philosophical argument that a fact justifies its own existence. Reference: "The Is Ought question" A series of essays, about which I remember very little, having read it over 40 years ago. It's still in print