RE: Why your exsistence is more worthless than you previousy thought it was.
February 11, 2014 at 8:32 am
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2014 at 8:33 am by Sword of Christ.)
(February 10, 2014 at 9:48 am)Alex K Wrote: Hey, whatever floats your boat
It's good advice regardless of whether you believe the supernatural claims of religion or not.
Quote:Yes, there is a great deal of finality to my happiness. To yours as well I reckon, because, by the way, believing otherwise doesn't make it so.
One of us will be entirely mistaken on the subject of the existence of God\the non-physical though only you have the prospect of being comprehensively to be proved mistaken. If what you believe is true then no-one will ever find out. If what I believe is true then atheists are going know all about it at some stage guaranteed.
Quote:You obviously devalue everything that's actually in our lifes in favour of a (in my opinion) phantasy. I don't.
In my opinion your opinion is wrong. You won't get very far with that line of argument.
Quote:No, I wouldn't do that, actually, that's a terrible strawman depicting atheists as some kind of Vulcan caricature.
Even Vulcans had religion and had mystical powers and shit. They were still entirely logically though of course, the emotional control they had was a religious/spiritual discipline.
Quote:I wouldn't feed them comforting lies about the afterlife, though.
Nothing is ever here all we ever see are changes in form. In any case I think there is good evidence of different kinds that life/consciousness isn't annihilated by physical death. Though even if that did happen it wouldn't happen seeing as you wouldn't exist to experience it happening if you think about it
Quote: However, I wouldn't talk the dying person next to me out of their faith, if they didn't desire and start that discussion themselves.
It's not that like you would get far anyway seeing as you only have some kind of a belief yourself. Why should they take your word for it?
Quote:See, there's harm in delusions.
It isn't a delusion if there's a good chance it might actually be true if there are good reasons to believe it. It's still a faith if you can't be factually certain but you can't be factually certain that atheism is true either. You have a belief you have based on what you consider to be good reasons/arguments, what you feel to be true and whatever.
Quote:Which road again?
It's the road leading away from God, the wrong road IMO.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
