(November 2, 2011 at 7:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Your post #83...which I agree is pretty fucking pointless but you do seem to be saying that you can't face life without thinking that your fairy tales are true.
I find that enormously sad.
Who said anything about fairy tales?
(November 3, 2011 at 1:43 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: When it comes to reality, your desires mean fuck all. To see reality as it is, is to ignore personal feelings and desires and to accept what you see. We are specks living on a speck which is part of a speck and that speck is just part of another speck. Stating that I'm just an insignificant and meaningless speck would in fact be very accurate.
Ace, why would you make the mistake of equating purpose and importance with size and scale? Given this same fallacious logic you’d have to say that an obese man is more important than a newborn child simply because he is bigger. Humans can be a speck in the grand cosmos and yet still be one of the main reasons the cosmos was created in the first place.
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Well being without one to me means you're free to create a sense of purpose for yourself instead of following a pre-set one.
Why would you create a sense of purpose if you know that there really is not one? Isn’t that a form of self deception?
Quote: The best thing about religion is that it's only a belief. A very improbable and silly belief that's based on ignorance.Notice that the statement that life has no purpose was also stated as a belief, religious people are not the only ones who hold beliefs.
