Hello :)

[festive1]

Greetings and salutations!

[Brian37]

Greetings and salutations!

Love your quote above your avatar "I prefure the harsh truth over a comforting lie"

That would have come in handy when I was a young dumb and full of hormones teen when I pined after a girl who would never have any interest in me. Boy did I crash big time when she finally, after working up the nerve to ask her out, rejected me.

I don't see how anyone in the modern age, other than evolution will always produce irrational beliefs, but how anyone knowing what we know about science can still stick their heads in the sand and deny the harsh truth that this is all there is and there is no magic super hero to save us.

Seriously to any modern believer who reads this, of any religion, if you can live without believing that the sun is a thinking god, like the Egyptians once falsely believed, what makes you think our species cant live without your pet god claim? Humans have given up on lots of myths over time and I think you can too.

Accepting reality does not make the atheist a pessimist or evil. It merely means we don't need to make up stories to explain either the good or bad that happen in reality.

Thank you for that quote, glad I read it.

[festive1]

Greetings and salutations!

Love your quote above your avatar "I prefure the harsh truth over a comforting lie"
Accepting reality does not make the atheist a pessimist or evil. It merely means we don't need to make up stories to explain either the good or bad that happen in reality.
Thank you for that quote, glad I read it.

Thank you. I really love Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. Admitting there's nothing beyond this life can be overwhelming, but I think it's better than deluding yourself. I'd rather fully enjoy what I DO have rather than suck it up and simply endure in the hopes of some eternal reward. And, as you pointed out, it has worldly implications as well.

[Brian37]

Love your quote above your avatar "I prefure the harsh truth over a comforting lie"
Accepting reality does not make the atheist a pessimist or evil. It merely means we don't need to make up stories to explain either the good or bad that happen in reality.
Thank you for that quote, glad I read it.

Thank you. I really love Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. Admitting there's nothing beyond this life can be overwhelming, but I think it's better than deluding yourself. I'd rather fully enjoy what I DO have rather than suck it up and simply endure in the hopes of some eternal reward. And, as you pointed out, it has worldly implications as well.

For many who, like me, grew up beleiving, it can be scary when that light bulb clicks on. But once you get to cope with it, it becomes a silly proposition to be scared of nature. No one is scared of life before they were born so while we might be scared of pain, or not having more time with our loved ones, death is as mundane as the seasons changing and a leaf falling off a tree and rotting. Reality is nothing to be scared of, minus the violence people will commit in the name of their fictional super heros.

All we have is now. To think that we are special in the vast universe has to be the biggest pile of shit claim any human has ever come up with. It was started long ago even before any written tradition or religion. It was human ignorant gap filling. It was understandable back then when our species lacked the modern scientific knowledge we have now. But it is sad evolution still produces irrational beliefs in the face of hard facts.

[Cinjin]