(May 31, 2012 at 7:08 am)StatCrux Wrote: I think this is related to life having a meaning and purpose. Anyone who thinks life has no meaning is unlikely to produce great art, unless of course it is depicting the meaningless nature of existence. Religious thinking sees meaning and purpose which is conducive to creating great art. The problem for the atheist is that ultimately life has no meaning. If you then say that you create your own meaning, that is the definition of delusional thinking, unless you truly believe in your own meaning..which is putting you in the realm of faith, faith in no God.
LIFE HAS NO MEANING, GET OVER IT!
Think about what you were 1 billion years ago and that is what you will be 1 billion years from now.
THAT DOES NOT mean you cannot find meaning while you are alive, and that meaning is what you give it, and it is not handed down by any fictional being, anymore than worshiping the sun made it a deity.
When our species goes extinct there wont be any future generation to sell our human invented superstitions to. The planet will go on without us until it too burns out it's core and dies. The sun also has a time span and it too will end. The universe will continue with no record of us just like it had no record of us when the solar system first formed.
I still find "awe" in nature without assigning it to myth. I feel that sense of awe with my mother. I feel it with my cat. I feel it with a pretty sunset. But I also feel it when thinking about the awesome destructive side of nature in volcanos, earthquakes, black holes. And all without assigning the good or bad to Superman vs Kriptonite.
