(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.
My life has no significance to anything or anybody except me, and perhaps the people in my life who care about me. Beyond that, I'm just another sack of flesh on this tiny little rock, of no significance to the rest of humanity let alone the cold and unfeeling universe in which we all preside.
And I have no problem with that. The universe owes me nothing and I am obliged only to enjoy myself while I've got the chance. If, by your own reckoning, that means my life lacks purpose, meaning or both, then the ramifications of that are yours to wrestle with.
