RE: Unfortunately the atheist will have to stand up and go
December 4, 2013 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2013 at 12:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 4, 2013 at 12:06 pm)DOS Wrote: Chuck
Quote:You don't believe fairy, lepricons, and jins exist, or don't know?I have no problem if the fairy, lepricons and jins exist! I don't give a thought or shit whether they exist or not and I'll be fine if u prove me they do really exist.
I am talking bout afterlife, God, soul here...
Put aside your inclination towards self-indulgent wish thinking.
Your ideas about afterlife, God, soul are completely equivalent things to fairy, lepricons and jins in terms of how these concept came to be, what widespread psychological weaknesses of humans they happen to exploit to remain in popular culture, and how non-existant are the evidence and support for their reality. If you don't care about fairy, lepricons and jins, and think their reality has no impact on you, then you have no more intellectually rigorous reason to care about afterlife, God, soul. The only thing that makes you dismiss one and revolve your life around the other is the fact you, in your self-indulgent and self-delusional way, find afterlife, God, soul more suited for further indulgence of even more self-delusions.
There is nothing that can be "known" in the sense of it being the received truth from above the collective human capacity for rigorous analysis of accessible evidence. But one could make a probability assessment of the likelihood of something being true in light of carefully evaluated and validated lines of evidence. The latter is the maximum extend of any real "knowing".
To not "know" in this second, rigorous, sense and still claim to know is the height of self deception.
So I don't know, in the self-deceptive sense of "knowing" that you use, that afterlife, God, soul does not exist. But I know in the rigorous sense of evidence that reasons to believe in the reality of afterlife, God, soul is insignificant. It would intellectually criminal to act as if there are significant likelihood of their reality for that infinitesimal possibility to be acted upon.
So put down your Doztoevsky, and pick up a study of scientific thinking. It won't make you feel profound in a self delusional way, but it will make what you say much more likely to be true.