(January 31, 2014 at 2:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Some atheists display cognitive dissonance about meaning and purpose. On the one hand they insist that the natural world has no teleological properties. Then they turn around and claim their lives can still have significance, thereby inserting teleology back into reality.
Significance to us individually, in ways that often echo out into our social groups, and possibly beyond. Significance to the universe is a completely incomprehensible concept; in your religious world you're talking about significance to god, which is really just one more mind to be significant to, only you've puffed that one up above all the others.
Essentially, we're thinking of the same kind of significance no matter our teleological positions; the atheists just aren't arrogant enough to invent another mind so that the most important person in the universe also finds us significant.
"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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