(January 31, 2014 at 3:41 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(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.
It's almost like those atheistst think things can only hold meaning for beings capable of ascribing meaning to things.
You're close, Chad thinks that things can only hold meaning by things that have had the ability to describe meaning prescribed to them by a cosmic meaning prescriber. I don't know of any example of this, and think a fart would probably hold all physical stinky properties regardless of my description of it smelling like shit upon its entry to my senses. Absent my nose to describe this "shittiness" it's still a fart, it just hasn't offended anyone. I suspect that Chad will insist that without some platonic ultimate Shit, the fart that participates in the form of Shitty would not be perceivable, thus, there must be a divine prescriber of shit, i.e.-God. If this doesn't give your life meaning, I don't know what will.
