RE: As time goes by
September 9, 2009 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2009 at 8:02 pm by theVOID.)
(September 8, 2009 at 8:16 pm)ecolox Wrote:(September 8, 2009 at 2:32 am)theVOID Wrote: Explore life and the universe and arts and culture, music, literature, science, maths, philosophy but more importantly to enjoy yourself, do things that interest you, there is always a possibility of living a great life with your friends and family and bartender and kids and your partner... there are more things in this life to do than there is time to do it, so you have to enjoy our very existence because you're never getting another one.
You aim, most importantly, to enjoy yourself while people are out there starving and living in miserable circumstances? That's a rather limited view of the world, don't you think?
Coming from the douchebag who believes sky daddy is around and chooses not to help them! What is your excuse for the supposed omni benevolent god not helping them out? And FYI i do help them, i give money to Oxfam, it's not much but it's what i can afford at the moment as a student.
Quote:theVOID Wrote:I see no need to believe in an afterlife;
Of course not, because you wouldn't be in charge of the afterlife. And from your first paragraph I can see that you are most concerned with yourself and what you want.
No, i see no reason to believe in the afterlife in the same sense i see no reason to believe in reincarnation or unicorns or dragons or fairies... THERE IS NOTHING MORE THAN SPECULATION ON THE SIDE OF THESE IDEAS! It's frankly idiotic to believe truly in ideas without a scrap of evidence, even more stupid when these ideas came straight out of the mind of primitive men.
Quote:theVOID Wrote:It, along with religion is a concept developed by primitive, uneducated, superstitious men thousands of years ago to try and explain the universe.
The biggest difference is that your worldview is self-centered - whereas theirs wasn't.
That is STUPID, i'm not the one who thinks the universe was built by a God for us and us alone! I'm not the one who thinks we were created in the image of the divine. The universe did not happen with us in mind, we are a bi-product of something much larger, Evolution did not plan us and it doesn't even know we exist.
Quote:theVOID Wrote:compared to the knowledge we have today their assumptions are laughable, there is no evidence to distinguish their assumptions from any other possibly imagined afterlife or reincarnation, only faith in the ideas of primitive men.
What knowledge - you haven't even explained why you exist? You've highlighted that by discussing what you think you should do with your life.
I AM A BIG, BAD, ASS-KICKING, INTELLIGENT, ORGANIC MACHINE! I LIVE THEN I DIE.
Quote:theVOID Wrote:There is no reason to believe all the functions of the mind(there is no soul) are anything but naturalistic and until evidence arises for an alternative theory i refuse to accept something that offers us no advantage or explanatory power, there is no need for any of the empty religious concepts, they are the product of superstition mixed with human curiosity, and they were completely wrong - it's an idiotic belief and an even more idiotic way to evaluate the universe.
You have yet to offer a viable explanation for why you even exist.
I did, #48 in: http://atheistforums.org/thread-1729-pos...l#pid31713
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