RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 3, 2019 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2019 at 7:34 pm by Acrobat.)
(September 3, 2019 at 5:58 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: False sense of humanity? Needing a god who fucked his own mother to give himself birth to have meaning in life is a truer sense of humanity?
I suppose the slave contented with the fellowship of the slave quarters and have no aspiration of ever being free might deem those who overtly embrace the potential afforded by self determination inhuman, even though his slave master to whom he truckles so obsequiously lords it over him by realizing those very same potentials at his expense.
Hum, freedom? Many atheists seem to operate on some conception of freedom, like religious people as enslaved while they are free.
Yet this freedom they refer to clearly isn’t the sort of freedom afforded to us politically the sort all of us have, but some other kind?
There’s some sort of underlying concept of freedom they operate on, thats peculiar.
It also doesn’t seem to be an appeal, or a belief that this freedom they speak of is possessed by accepting some particular scientific or historic fact either.
Also, while they seem to be advocates of this peculiar freedom, they never seem to be possessers of it, they seem no more free than those who they accuse of being enslaved.
You seem to held captive to something.
You repeated the whole “god who fucked his own mother” twice already for what purpose? For my sake? probably not. But to provoke an emotional reaction, like in the use of insults. You feel some sort of miserableness contained in such expressions, and want to pass that miserableness on to others in hopes of relief, a relief that never comes. It probably from some undisclosed pain, as it usually does. It’s stuff like this, that seem to be the shackles, of this sort of peculiar freedom, that we both recognize, even if we don’t possess it ourselves.