RE: Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?
October 6, 2014 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2014 at 5:06 pm by Violet.)
(October 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm)genkaus Wrote: In that case it nihilism simply cannot be the logical outcome of atheism. Most of the atheists I've met regard reason as the only means to knowledge. Theists are the ones who negate the value of reason by accepting faith as an alternate means to knowledge.
Most beliefs are reasoned. Unless a person says "I don't know" when asked why they believe: they are using reason to adhere to their faith.
The wrongness of atheists and theists is not unlike... and the correctness is not found in reasoning (logical OR otherwise)... it is found in truth, which is often insubstantial regarding the illusions we live. Knowledge is no mirror of truth.
Edit: And in the end? All of us 'don't know'. Just keep asking why... keep trying to come up with a reason: you will eventually fail. Question your reasons, question the reasons you trust your reasons, question the reasons you trust your reasons's reasons! You know... and you are wrong.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
