(June 27, 2013 at 7:41 pm)hookakat1 Wrote: Now I'm feeling a bit lost and empty.
I think that's understandable, especially if the realization came suddenly or over a very short period of time. There is a lot of subconscious conditioning that gets thrown out of whack when we realize that there isn't a god or an afterlife. Keep meditating on it and finding the good in being free of a delusion that maintains a pretty tight grip on the minds of billions of your fellow humans.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
