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If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
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RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
(August 9, 2021 at 2:25 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Well, so what? Why am I obligated to participate in experience in order to be perceived as rational? Choosing between life and death isn’t choosing between eternal experience and no experience, after all. I was thrust into an experiential existence without my consent, and I don’t even get to keep it. That, coupled with my awareness that every emotion, thought and pleasure I have is rooted in nothing more than a blind, biological drive to reproduce leads me to regard conscious experience with growing dispassion, or perhaps ‘clinical detachment’ is more accurate. I suppose I just find the whole business of finite conscious experience rather silly and trying. If the inevitable is to end up right back where I started; not existing; if there’s no meaningful distinction between being born, living, and dying, and having never been born at all; then maybe I simply don’t want to be bothered marching forward with the business of it. I’m not depressed (I don’t think) or miserable, or suffering. I just can’t think of many good philosophical reasons for actively living. Camus said we should “revolt” against and in spite of the absurd; that that was the most reasonable choice; and I used to agree with him. But now I’m not so sure.

All this is a direct consequence of atheism. That's what an atheistic worldview provides us with: nothing, nihilism. Absent a God, there obviously cannot be an objective reason to live for or something worthwhile to pursue. Being aware of finite existence and disbelieving in God at the same time is not a tenable position for any human being. I don't think even atheists hold this postion rigorously, some will try and defend some rudimentary form of afterlife that doesn't require God.

This can actually be more evidence that we're designed by a deity. The fact that our psychological makeup can't seem to stand nihilism is probably the very imprint of our designer. We crave for belief in God like we crave for food or air.

And one more thing, this assertion right here :

(August 9, 2021 at 2:25 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:  I was thrust into an experiential existence without my consent, 

is not logical. You need to exist first to be able to consent. So, objecting to existence is logically invalid, it's a non-starter.
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RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better? - by R00tKiT - August 9, 2021 at 3:59 pm

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