RE: The Ultimate Why There Is Evil in the World Thread.
May 15, 2015 at 6:44 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 6:50 pm by Whateverist.)
(May 15, 2015 at 1:44 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 15, 2015 at 9:56 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: First: "the atheists" don't have to do anything. Atheists need not demonstrate anything about a god...You're right atheists don't have to prove anything until they do try to prove something like the notion that theodicy disproves God. In the context of this thread an intelligent reader would be able to recognize my use of the word atheist as a generality and not a universal.
(May 15, 2015 at 9:56 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: Second: you have a real problem with this shit. I'm really sick of you lumping atheists together the way you do.With all due respect..screw you. I'm not about to qualify every single use of the word 'atheist' with "those atheists who" or "only atheists that" just because you lack the wit to read things in context.
(May 15, 2015 at 1:52 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Excuse me, Chad, but why on earth do you think I was responding to you? I quoted Hatshepust directly.
So, no. Screw you.
Geez, get a room. And take pictures. We'll expect a tell all after.
(May 15, 2015 at 5:16 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(May 15, 2015 at 2:48 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I assume your life is not without its share of suffering. Does that mean that you would prefer never having been born? Or now that you do exist, in what you consider a crapsack world, will you accelerate your own demise? I doubt that very much.
I can't answer for Pyrrho but for myself, YES, I would have preferred not to have been born. It's not that I'm miserable but there is more strife than desirable things. And I have a death sentence. Life would be worth it if I had time to self-evolve into something greater but I don't have that option because of our pathetic lifespan. So why don't I just kill myself? Because I have a hard-wired fear of death.
I didn't ask to be born. I didn't hard-wire myself to fear death. I don't know about you but the world I find myself in sure as hell isn't optimal for me. It could be a lot better. I just make the best of what I have because what else can I do?
Whoa! Half full! The goddam glass is half full, as well as half empty. Sometimes you get the half with the dregs, admittedly. But if I knew it would be my last sip I'd certainly savor them all the same.
