RE: My somewhat deconversion
April 19, 2012 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2012 at 10:48 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(April 19, 2012 at 10:00 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well Faith, you may trust yourself to assign purpose to your own life, but I do not. I've been known to make terrible decisions. I may not be able to fall back on any god for purpose, but I've been letting empty soup cans handle that for me for quite some time now...and it's working out rather well.
(@Tea: would letting soup cans give my life purpose be any more or less effective than sourcing the same from an article, book, or video? How about god, in what way might a god differ from soup cans, articles, books, or videos as far as assigning purpose to my life is concerned?)
Hmm. I might be able to find meaning from alphabet soup!
Soup can is an inanimate object. It can't think, feel, or express it's self. God is said to be eternal and perfect and the creator of everything. Supposedly, God is meaning (not that he creates meaning). So, from a theist point of view, since God is meaning, and he created everything and supposedly has an ultimate purpose for everything, a person can only get meaning from him.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
