(March 2, 2014 at 1:42 pm)StatCrux Wrote:(March 2, 2014 at 1:30 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: You've just done the same to me.
Hypocrisy is a double edged sword.
Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house...
No, I commented on a book in which the author agrees with myself that atheism when taken to its logical conclusion ends in nihilism. So you can either agree or argue logically why it doesn't. Simply stating that I believe in a man in the sky doesn't address the argument and is erecting a straw man.
Actually, without explicit reference, I proposed the argument of parsimony (using Occam's razor) which largely contends that since natural theories adequately explain the development of religion and belief in God's, both the claim of existence and the actual existence of such supernatural agents is superfluous and may be dismissed unless otherwise proven to be required to explain the phenomenon.
I dismiss those claims as being superfluous. That doesn't remove meaning from my life.
If I had never sought meaning, would I have exposed myself to as many possible truths, philosophies, interpretations and theologies as I have?
Don't ever tell me that my life doesn't have meaning.
My children are my meaning; my wife is my meaning. I want to breathe in and out every possible second of this existence to spend that time with them. My meaning is their joy, their happiness, their contentment, their comfort.
As an Atheist, I have EVERYTHING to live for.