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How do you find meaning as an atheist?
#41
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
(January 17, 2013 at 8:50 am)mr.atheist Wrote: I keep occupied,I read I think,I learn and I play Wink

Play with what? Tongue
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#42
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
I think live is meaningless, for everybody.

We can have purpose : fun, love, god, kids, etc. but there is no meaning in that
Only dead fish go with the flow * Obey your master
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#43
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
(January 14, 2013 at 9:03 am)AthianGuildmaster Wrote: I'm curious, how do other atheists find meaning in their life? I'm not talking about "purpose", that's something entirely different. What I'm talking about is the sense of a definite direction or duty to a person or thing. How do you find that in your life? What gives you that sense of meaning?

I won't share what does that for me until later on. I want to hear from you guys first.

It comes from the same place everyone else gets it, I give my own life meaning, it's the only place it can possibly come from. All the absurd claims that religions and gods give people meaning are ridiculous, they simply misidentify where they draw meaning from, the human mind.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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#44
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
How does a Theists find meaning in a fairy tales?
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#45
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
I don't really understand what the meaning of meaning is. If there was a God and you went to some kind of afterlife when you die for believing and/or doing the right stuff that isn't a meaning, it's just something that happen.
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#46
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
Thinking I am wondering if this is another lie/ pile of BS expounded by the religious masters to their slaves?
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#47
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
Meaning? Purpose? Those sound like highly personal, subjective things. I'm not aware of any reason to think there is any objective meaning or purpose, at least relative to humanity.
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#48
RE: How do you find meaning as an atheist?
I have never had to look for meaning. I have always had interests and desires to know and learn (as well as to eat and be successful). This motivates me to achieve. Achieving goals, learning and experiencing all lead to a sense of well being, ultimately self-actuation. So I guess it is understanding what interests and goals you have and achieving them. Many of the underlying motivations / propensities come from your basic chemical / emotional makeup (your basic personality type). One of my strongest emotions is interest, it drives me to learn and explore. Understanding is meaningful to me. Meaning comes from the inside, we create it. JD
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