(March 6, 2015 at 11:16 am)Faith No More Wrote: Don't get caught up in the theistic delusion that a finite existence leads to our actions being meaningless.Neither atheism or theism per se entail existential nihilism. Ontological naturalism, physical reduction, and materialism are a different story, since all three sever the relationship between signs and those things they signify. Purely physical event just are, they are not omens nor do they have affect. They have no significance except what gets assigned to them arbitrarily based on someone’s whim. And within that absurdist position, the whim of a pious humanitarian has no more justification than the whim of a mass murder.
(March 6, 2015 at 11:16 am)Faith No More Wrote: ...the negative and positive effects they have on the people around us.And why exactly do those effects matter at all within a materialistic paradigm? How does someone go about assigning value to different kinds of electro-chemical reactions?
