(April 4, 2010 at 5:08 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: yeah but realising Love is chemical does not make you happier, it makes you feel like what you are: a mass of flesh and blood whose only purpose is to live and reproduce, and that is frankly depressing. How is making yourself depressed good ? living a happy life is what a lot of people want to do, so is pure rationality bad in that way ?
and i know, thats very naive, but im starting to see more good points for irrationality than for rationality and i dont want to unknowingly convince myself to get back to religion.
Quote: yeah but realising Love is chemical does not make you happier, it makes you feel like what you are: a mass of flesh and blood whose only purpose is to live and reproduce, and that is frankly depressing.It all depends on how you look at it. Knowing I'm in love with someone all because there are chemical reactions reacting in my brain doesn't make me less happy. It just means I know what causes me to love. It doesn't cause me to become less happy. Just makes me more knowledgeable.
We are flesh and blood, so what?
Quote:How is making yourself depressed good ?It is entirely based on how you look at it. It isn't depressing to me.
Quote:living a happy life is what a lot of people want to do, so is pure rationality bad in that way ?I AM living a happy life. I still love and shag despite the knowledge I have of it. Still makes me happy. It's all about how you look at it.
If you'd rather opt for a more satisfying but less realistic look on reality then there is nothing wrong with that. Not everyone wants to know how the body works or it's mind.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
