RE: first timer
April 23, 2014 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2014 at 12:45 am by Whateverist.)
(April 22, 2014 at 10:24 pm)fishmagnet Wrote: When I die my stardust will return to the stars, my mind will be silent and lost to time. I will be at peace knowing I had a chance to experience a wonderful experiment in life.
OK, that's who I am. Maybe I'll write more maybe I won't, just needed to get that off my chest today.
You sound like a Bokonist to me. It sure is fine getting to be sitting-up mud even for a little while, isn't it? Some appreciation is called for whether you think there is any entity to receive it or not. It's more about expressing who you are than literally thanking a creator. Welcome.
(April 22, 2014 at 10:28 pm)Beccs Wrote: Some people, in my experience, just need something "greater" to get them through life, to help them with their insecurities, and to overcome their fear of death. There's also the sense of community that religion and church can create - something atheism hasn't yet achieved but is slowly creating.
For me, it isn't that I need something greater so much as it is that I sense it. But I don't think the something greater is "out there". Nor is it "in there" in a literal way. To get the full flavor of experience, one should always fully savor impressions in an as-if manner.
I think god was the concretization of unconscious functions of ones mind, not the deliberate invention of anyone's conscious mind. "As-if" is the antidote for literalism.
