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Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists
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RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists
(December 29, 2015 at 6:08 pm)Brakeman Wrote:
(December 29, 2015 at 5:16 pm)wallym Wrote: I don't believe in morality.  And I don't believe in the "Good for me, good for the herd" mentality.  To me, they are delusions.  Or maybe a better phrase would be a misrepresentation of reality.
Are you speaking against objective vs subjective morality or are you actually saying that humans don't make choices while considering consequences to others?

I don't believe humans make choices.  

That being said, I think humans follow the morality they make up in the same way humans follow the God they make up.  

So the distinction is the notions of morality, God, and unicorns exist, but morality, God, and unicorns don't actually exist.

Or maybe they do.  I suppose it depends on whether or not you view an irrational view of the world as 'real.'  If I have an imaginary unicorn in my head that I named Jasper, and I pretend we play fun word games together.  Would you say Jasper exists?  What if rather than pretend, I really believed Jasper was a unicorn in my head that played word games with me?  Would that make him real?

Either way, I find the idea of morality, subjective and objective, as irrational nonsense.
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Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by henryp - December 29, 2015 at 12:57 am
RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by henryp - December 29, 2015 at 7:00 pm
RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by henryp - December 29, 2015 at 10:54 pm
RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by henryp - December 29, 2015 at 10:00 pm
RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by brewer - December 29, 2015 at 10:05 pm
RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by henryp - December 29, 2015 at 11:09 pm
RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists - by Cato - December 30, 2015 at 8:25 pm

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