RE: Nothingness
May 23, 2013 at 5:24 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2013 at 5:24 am by Cyberman.)
(May 19, 2013 at 5:58 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: 1. That's not true, our morality is not based on logic, at least I hope yours isn't. Morality is most of the time illogical. And I really couldn't give a shit about the Bible. Logically, yes, selling your daughter as a sex slave earns the parents some financial reward doesn't it. In fact, a daughter can be a financial liability, so it makes sense to sell her as a sex slave. Welcome to using logic as the basis for morality my friend, welcome.
Logic has very little, if anything, to do with how animals ought to behave towards each other. Well spotted. To expect otherwise would be rather silly.
(May 19, 2013 at 5:58 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: 2. Atheism is the lack of a belief. I don't just lack a belief in Zeus, I reject it with a positive rejection i.e. there's no way Zeus exists. That's not the same as atheism.
Please note the words in bold, then analyse them using the preceding sentence. Notice anything?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'