(August 28, 2013 at 4:00 pm)Quicksilverpoet Wrote: What kind of purpose can be derived from a life without religion?All of it. All kinds. If you want to make your life's purpose to better mankind, you purpose is to do so. Want to see how many cans of beer can be drunken by one man in a lifetime? Then that too can be your purpose. It is freedom to choose your own purpose.
(August 28, 2013 at 4:00 pm)Quicksilverpoet Wrote: What kind of meaning comes from being the current state of DNA that's simply trying to further its line?The same meaning of having a family, while in one view it is simply propagating the speasies, in practice, it is a cornicopia of love and happiness.
(August 28, 2013 at 4:00 pm)Quicksilverpoet Wrote: If an asteroid annihilates the Earth tomorrow, what purpose did we serve by living?We enjoyed the ride and the entertainment along the way.
(August 28, 2013 at 4:00 pm)Quicksilverpoet Wrote: Really I guess I'm just trying to ask, Why bother living? Not believing in a higher power of any flavor has led me to really wonder why I should bother to do anything. There's no purpose or reason.
Did you also say why bother being good after you found out that Santa Claus was imaginary? Did you give up on dental hygiene when the tooth fairy was seen to be fiction? Even if there were a god, he hasn't bothered to meet you one on one in the flesh. He hasn't bothered to become real so that the world can really know without doubt his purpose for us. Besides, would you be happier with a purpose that your father picked out for you with no input from you, or would you prefer to choose your own purpose in life? I know I want to chose my own, and I am more content in my heart as an atheist than I ever was as a theist.
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