(March 5, 2015 at 2:11 pm)Lek Wrote: That's just the thing. Life makes no sense to an atheist. We live in this world with all this pain and suffering absolutely no reason at all. We're just here by chance. We live through the suffering and try to make the best of it and then we die with no memory of anything that happened. And this goes on and on until the universe self-destructs and something else comes about. All this for absolutely no reason! What kind of sense does this make? I see you as being person who comprehend more than just what you can see on he surface. Maybe you're the one who needs to break out of it. Come out of your scientific box and see that there is more to the world than what floats on the surface. We are spiritual beings as well as physical beings - different from all the other creatures upon the earth.
Life makes perfect sense to me.
My life has plenty of reason to me, to my family, friends, coworkers. Just because something is temporary, does no mean it has no reason or purpose.
Your wishful thinking that you want life to mean more to a god, does not make it true.
Quote:I mean no disrespect by this, but you did mention that you suffer from depression. I know that my anxiety colors my view of the world. Could it be that your depression is a factor that causes you to see the world in an unreal way?
I mean no disprespect, but...
You're the one that believes in all sorts of unsupported, unevidenced, supernatural claims, and he's the one seeing the world in an unreal way?!
Seriously?!
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
