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Solace
#11
RE: Solace
Facepalm

Keep telling yourself that Chad, in the end, the only difference between you and your portrayed 'atheism' is your own delusion.
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#12
RE: Solace
I'm pretty happy with life to be honest. Minus the weather, I've got pretty much everything I could want, including good wine, and a bolognese I'm making right now.

Is life meaningless? Who cares? I don't need a deity to be happy :-)
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#13
RE: Solace
(May 11, 2013 at 1:24 am)Praetorian Wrote: My questions to the board are, how do you cope with the ultimate meaninglessness of your existence? What brings you solace, and what would you tell someone to comfort them? What would you say (or did say) at the funeral of a loved one who is an atheist?

The hope for revival in reruns.

But yes the thought of death does raise conflicts with survival instincts. If those bother you don't think about it. Be prepared to cope. Think about grabbing the scythe and getting the Reaper first. Listen to Brahms' fourth symphony.
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#14
RE: Solace
I can't worry about two billion years from now.

In 100 years everyone here will be dead... and the theists will not be sucking the dick of whatever sky-daddy they claim to worship for eternity.
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#15
RE: Solace
(May 11, 2013 at 1:13 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: To me this is an example of atheism NOT facing reality, i.e. the logical conclusions of its own premise. Without grounding in a fundamental justification for meaning, the attempt to find solace in some proximate meaning ends in futility (if you actually think it through). Like naked mole-rats, eating their own shit, atheists remain blind to their own cosmic nihilism, the void that devours the very substance of meaning itself.

So, what is facing reality, then? Arrogantly believing that a god has a special place in the universe just for you simply because you are incapable of discovering meaning without it?

The more you post things like this, the more I am convinced that you turned to Christianity, not out of believing you discovered the truth, but because you were unable to cope with an existential crisis on your own.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#16
RE: Solace
None of them can deal with the fact that they aren't fucking "special," FNM.
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#17
RE: Solace
Nothing like fooling themselves about a god, spirituality or bullshit like that to claim others are fools not to be that deluded Wacky
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#18
RE: Solace
(May 11, 2013 at 11:25 am)Praetorian Wrote: Don't worry about everything ceasing to exist, because you won't be around for it anyway.

Or... you might be. You're a lucky bastard what can die... Tongue
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#19
RE: Solace
(May 11, 2013 at 2:17 pm)Faith No More Wrote: ...you were unable to cope with an existential crisis on your own.
Quite so. And not even entirely in the past. I face it everyday, the choice. Because I know that neither belief nor disbelief are truly rational. And yet I find that only belief offers the hope of reason.

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite." Kierkegarrd
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#20
RE: Solace
(May 11, 2013 at 5:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: And yet I find that only belief offers the hope of reason.

Belief offers comfort, not reason. Disbelief is akin to removing the blinders of faith.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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