I'm an atheist,but spirituality scrambled my thoughts.

[Minimalist]

Walk, feed and love your dog and he'll be happy forever. Humans are much more complicated than that

True of some humans.

[Bad Writer]

I'm glad you're feeling better already. Sometimes when we think we need to discover the great mysteries of the universe, all we actually needed was to talk with others for a moment. Laying our thoughts out for others to see is such a relief sometimes.

[Whateverist]

Listen to Spock. The meaning of life is [REDACTED].

[Neo-Scholastic]

Kudos to you for understanding the logical consequences of you atheism and not trying to rationalize or candy coat the truth with vague appeals to not worry and be happy. If you wish to remain an atheist then IMNSHO the most noble stance is to remain defiant in the face of inevitable defeat.

[Angrboda]

P1) Through spirituality, I [you] am able to find meaning in life;
P2) The spirituality is unlikely to be reasonable and is likely false;
C1) You are able to find meaning through something which is likely false and not real.

Taking C1:

P1) It is possible to find meaning through something that is likely not real;
P2) Things that aren't real cannot make life meaningful;
P3) You find life meaningful this way;
C2) Your finding meaning is likely caused by something that is not this spirituality.

Taking C2:
P1) You are finding meaning in life.
P2) This meaning likely comes from some other source than the spirituality.
C3a) You can find meaning in life from some other source.
C3b) The meaning you find comes from something other than the spirituality.
C3c) There are non-spiritual sources of meaning.

Taking C3c:
P1) Life can have meaning through non-spiritual sources;
P2) Nihilism posits that life has no meaning from non-spiritual, non-transcendant sources;
C4) Nihilism is not true.

[theyear12013]

I have been struggling to understand life why are we here,whats our mission,...I first studied nihilism but I got very depressed because of it views (maybe because they are true).

Our ancestors fought and died for 500,000 years so that you could be here. We beat the apes, the Neanderthals, all other species and have survived countless self inflicted wars until the point when we could acknowledge where we came from -- the truth. We created mythologies to explain the pain and suffering, but the best pallative to nihilism is to think -- my ancestors fought for me to be here today -- I'm not about to give up now just because our current dominant mythology has been proven false. I don't require a sky god from Arabia or Jerusalem to find meaning in creation. If anything we are the most advanced life form we have ever found yet in the universe -- and its our job to figure out the rest of it.

I find these documentaries to be spiritual in their beauty -- the CGI is so good these days space documentaries are quite relaxing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlmNwm_sjMs

[KichigaiNeko]

[Aractus]

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I have never believed in god, I was raised this way to follow science evidence and logic,but I have been struggling to understand life why are we here,whats our mission,...I first studied nihilism but I got very depressed because of it views (maybe because they are true).So I got my hands on some "spiritual" books and they gave me some kind of comfort after reading them they showed me life in a different view,Its like I have been kissed by an lie. But I keep rethinking the things that books say and some of the things the book say clashes with my rational logic. But now I'm trapped in between if I return to my atheist views I will return to my sad,depressed,whats the point me but if I turn to spirituality I give reason to my life,I feel more happy, more alive,... Hope you can give me some help and advice. I'm still a teen so maybe this growing up thing is messing with my brain.I have also experimented with high marijuana and salvia dose and mushrooms and I hallucinated landscapes,I talked to the beings that were living there.,People say that those drugs mess up the normal functioning of the brain but if they mess up your brain you wouldn't see pure landscapes,beings you would just see some random colors,sounds,...flashes I have hard time explain psychedelic drugs I like to think that they connect us to other planet and being,can someone explain this. (I don't want to hear that stories about the harmful use of psychedelics drugs)

Thanks

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But you should not be taking drugs at your age - and in fact even when you're an adult you shouldn't take them!

[Fruity]

Welcome

[Mudhammam]

What you may eventually discover, if you allow yourself, is that there are some parts of life, such as your own mind-reality tunnel, that you create while others are forced upon you. You choose to accept some, not others. God, intelligence, life itself to some extent, meaning, you create those for yourself, some rationally, others out of fear or anxiety or depression. I like to find ways to calm those ills and doubts with the most fulfilling activites in life I enjoy: reading, learning from others, thinking through problems and dilemmas, nature, animals, etc. Not everyone thinks like I do, so be it. Just don't brainwash kids with fear and your own bullshit projections, that's primarily why I promote secularism/naturalism/atheism. God does not exist in any objective sense. No one can demonstrate this.