(October 28, 2021 at 10:39 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(October 28, 2021 at 7:49 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Enjoying life is more important/meaningful than anything else, but it's not some grand meaning. It is very much a mundane understanding.
Please demonstrate to us that there is such a 'grand' meaning.
How do you even know, that the grand purpose the god you believe exists, has chosen for you, is even in your best interests?
It's kind if strange to me, that the vast majority of people would rebel if their: college was chosen for them, their major, their career, their spouse, where rhey are going to live, hiw many children they would have, etc, were all chosen for them.
But they seem perfectly ok with a god choosing their purpose for them.
A dictatorship, even if run by a benevolent god, is still a dictatorship.
I stopped believing in grand meanings when I was in the army. I came within a hair's breath of being sent to Vietnam. Through pure serendipity I was able to evade that fate. It had already sunk in that I was going to a foreign country where people would be trying to kill me. Didn't care much for that. It was at that moment that I began to care about the sanctity of life, my life. This has always been the most precious life of all to me. Except of course while I was married. Then it was my wife's life.
In the years I was a functioning alcoholic, I was usually disappointed to wake up and have to face another day. But now, I wake up ready to my best to savour each day.
Today I've spent about 5 hours learning about the workings of my computer router. Everything is working well, and today I understand a bit more about the why of it than I did yesterday. That's worthwhile to me, not some fantasy about a very transactional blissful afterlife.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not possible for me to offend a god of infinite love and mercy. He will love and accept me warts and all. If I'm right and he doesn't exist, I won't know will I.
