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I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
#71
RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
(August 4, 2014 at 1:50 pm)Mozart Link Wrote:
(August 4, 2014 at 1:40 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Again, that's not how shit works. You don't just pick things to believe and then ask people to 'prove you wrong'. You can pull any random belief out of your ass and make it unfalsifiable, and according to you, it'd be a 'fact'. You withold belief in something until the case is made, not vice versa.
So maybe perhaps instead of trying to give me reasons as to why I shouldn't believe what I'm saying, you should instead give reasons as to why I shouldn't feel the way I do.

I can't tell you how you're supposed to feel man, that's all what's going on inside your head, and it's not like I can access that. You made statements about your beliefs, and beliefs can be true (congruous to reality) or untrue (incongruous to reality). And beliefs are not made 'true' by unfalsifiablility. That's all I'm saying.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#72
RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
(July 31, 2014 at 7:21 pm)Mozart Link Wrote: <snip>...just the feeling itself in terms of brain activity is real.
Or, you could just try controlling your mind as opposed to the obverse Thinking
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#73
RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
(August 4, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Mozart Link Wrote:
(August 4, 2014 at 8:59 am)Losty Wrote: So you're saying as long as you're happy that automatically makes you superior to anyone who is depressed or happens to have a less pleasurable life than you?
If that's what you're saying, then I completely disagree with you.
This is what I'm saying and if you think otherwise, please prove the arguments I made here backing that up wrong.

Lolwut? How can I prove your opinion wrong?
I disagree with you because I place value on different things than you do.
In my world view, a person who is completely happy and has all the pleasures they want, but does nothing has very little value.


Mozart Wrote:
(August 4, 2014 at 8:59 am)Losty Wrote:

I clearly stated that if I have chosen to instead be intelligent and have no pleasure, that would devastate my family and that it would be far better for them knowing that I am happy even if their lives were very difficult in having to take care of me if I were retarded and all happy. And why wouldn't they feel this way and feel devastated knowing that my emotional well-being (my pleasure) is all gone despite the fact that I am intelligent and such?

These things I'm saying here are not excuses--they are facts and unless you can disprove them, they will forever remain as facts.

The thing is, what you're talking about is make believe. You cannot have facts about something that is make believe.
I'm not really interested in how your family would be devastated in a fake world. In the real world you're only as happy as you want to be. If you want to be happy then go out and be happy. Do whatever it takes. Fight for what you want. Life is hard and no one else is going to take care of you.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#74
RE: I wish to feel superior to reality (atheism)
I've always been allergic to solipsism, and this is mighty close to it.

(August 4, 2014 at 8:50 am)Mozart Link Wrote: Now go ahead and give your opinion on the previous important post I just made.

Was this directed at me?

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