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Testing the strength of your Atheism
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RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism
January 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Alex K Wrote: AFTT47,

Yep. Think about it - none of your actions can ever be purely based on rationality, because logic is simply a system to arrive at conclusions from given premises or axioms. The first motivation for any action must be a non-rational one, be it instinct or emotion. Suppressing all that would mean loss of all inner drive.

I'm not sure what you mean by "inner drive." The will to live, perhaps? That's the only reason I can fathom for evolution selecting for emotion. Without that, I might not figure it's worth the trouble to continue on.

Then again, very simple organisms do well enough. An ant takes action to avoid attacks on it and it seems too simple a creature for something as complex as emotion.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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Testing the strength of your Atheism - by PreV2 - January 21, 2015 at 1:14 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Allnewoutlook - January 21, 2015 at 1:23 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by 404NotFound - January 21, 2015 at 1:36 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by PreV2 - January 21, 2015 at 1:47 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Silver - January 21, 2015 at 1:41 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 1:43 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 2:14 am
AW: RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Vosur - January 21, 2015 at 2:17 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 2:21 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 2:23 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 2:50 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Pizza - January 21, 2015 at 3:14 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Thumpalumpacus - January 21, 2015 at 2:53 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Minimalist - January 21, 2015 at 3:20 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Thumpalumpacus - January 21, 2015 at 3:38 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 3:39 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 3:40 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Lucanus - January 21, 2015 at 3:49 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 3:51 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Lucanus - January 21, 2015 at 4:26 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Exian - January 21, 2015 at 5:37 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by One Above All - January 21, 2015 at 5:56 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 6:21 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Ben Davis - January 21, 2015 at 6:48 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Hoopington - January 21, 2015 at 6:54 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 7:33 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Hoopington - January 21, 2015 at 8:34 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 21, 2015 at 8:41 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by ManMachine - January 21, 2015 at 6:53 am
Testing the strength of your Atheism - by KUSA - January 21, 2015 at 7:24 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Norman Humann - January 21, 2015 at 8:11 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Animated Earth - January 21, 2015 at 8:49 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Spooky - January 21, 2015 at 9:55 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Tonus - January 21, 2015 at 10:00 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 10:30 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by dyresand - January 21, 2015 at 10:32 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by FatAndFaithless - January 21, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Simon Moon - January 21, 2015 at 12:37 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 21, 2015 at 12:47 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Norman Humann - January 21, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Natachan - January 21, 2015 at 12:54 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by abaris - January 21, 2015 at 1:55 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by downbeatplumb - January 21, 2015 at 2:43 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Jenny A - January 21, 2015 at 3:51 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Regina - January 21, 2015 at 4:00 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Davka - January 21, 2015 at 4:08 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by AFTT47 - January 21, 2015 at 4:35 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Davka - January 21, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by LastPoet - January 21, 2015 at 5:00 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by watchamadoodle - January 21, 2015 at 8:40 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 22, 2015 at 1:24 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by IATIA - January 22, 2015 at 1:14 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Animated Earth - January 22, 2015 at 7:15 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by AFTT47 - January 22, 2015 at 12:09 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 22, 2015 at 12:15 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by AFTT47 - January 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 25, 2015 at 11:31 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by AFTT47 - January 25, 2015 at 2:14 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by IATIA - January 25, 2015 at 2:31 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 26, 2015 at 10:51 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Animated Earth - January 26, 2015 at 11:14 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by KevinM1 - January 22, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Strongbad - January 22, 2015 at 1:36 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 22, 2015 at 2:25 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 22, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Norman Humann - January 22, 2015 at 1:46 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by robvalue - January 22, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by jackson - January 24, 2015 at 1:06 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by CapnAwesome - January 24, 2015 at 1:44 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Thackerie - January 25, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by The Valkyrie - January 25, 2015 at 2:35 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by dyresand - January 25, 2015 at 4:45 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by AFTT47 - January 25, 2015 at 5:10 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by IATIA - January 25, 2015 at 4:48 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Ben Davis - January 26, 2015 at 9:39 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by KevinM1 - January 26, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Cato - January 26, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by AFTT47 - January 26, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by FlyingNarwhal - January 26, 2015 at 11:18 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Alex K - January 26, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by xr34p3rx - February 21, 2015 at 12:52 am
RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism - by Mr.wizard - February 21, 2015 at 1:14 am

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