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Poll: Do atheists have as great a sense of awe and wonder as theists?
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Yes and more so since they don't immediately interpret that feeling within a system of beliefs.
61.54%
16 61.54%
Yes, but it isn't on par with what theists feel. Without the feeling of the infinite personified and tuned into you, it can't be the same or as great.
0%
0 0%
No, atheists are only concerned with science. For atheists the 'unknown' is just more raw data waiting to be sorted out rationally.
0%
0 0%
Who the hell knows?
38.46%
10 38.46%
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Do atheists lack a sense of awe and wonder? (Doubt it.)
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RE: Do atheists lack a sense of awe and wonder? (Doubt it.)
(January 18, 2014 at 12:24 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Well there is some grandeur in that view of the universe. You think it's all random fluke though.

I think the universe is an infinitely delicate cascade of consequences and physical processes, the mechanisms of which are impossible to fully comprehend in the scope of a single human lifetime. I think the universe's improbable state is grand in and of itself, that in the vastness of time and space, in all the myriad possible combinations of constants and variables, the atoms that make up me were able to converge and, for the briefest of cosmic moments, appreciate the sheer scope of that which is around me. I see a universe burning with motion and action and silence, and I find it breathtaking.

You think it's all a magic trick performed by a self-aggrandizing invisible wizard, though.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee

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RE: Do atheists lack a sense of awe and wonder? (Doubt it.) - by Esquilax - January 18, 2014 at 1:40 pm

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