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Testing the strength of your Atheism
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I can't see it - unless I had lost my mind. Who am I going to pray to? Vishnu? Allah? The Great Pumpkin?
I would more likely cry out to Scotty to beam me up NOW dammit!
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein  
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It requires no effort from me to be an atheist.
I'm pretty sure I would talk to God, because I have a habit of doing that without any crisis to motivate me. I was indoctrinated as a Christian. Intellectually I don't see any possible way that any form of Christianity could be true, but my habit of talking to God and Jesus continues. I even cross myself sometimes which is particularly silly.
 RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism
January 22, 2015 at 1:14 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 1:16 am by IATIA.)
(January 21, 2015 at 1:14 am)PreV2 Wrote: Say you were in building in an earthquake zone and a large earthquake struck.No. Nothing can be gained from praying. There is no god, so what is the point. Even if there were, I am not concerned about my wallet at the moment. Look to real solutions. Pray to MacGyver maybe. 
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy  (January 21, 2015 at 8:40 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: I'm pretty sure I would talk to God, because I have a habit of doing that without any crisis to motivate me. I was indoctrinated as a Christian. Intellectually I don't see any possible way that any form of Christianity could be true, but my habit of talking to God and Jesus continues. I even cross myself sometimes which is particularly silly. Jesus Christ, pull yerself together! Oh, wait...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism
January 22, 2015 at 7:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 7:17 am by Animated Earth.)
Then again...
Speaking of pulling yourself together. Prayer may be helpful psychologically. In a panic situation your instincts (emotional brain) take charge and suppresses your cognition to a degree...presumably to make you take historically proven action quickly rather than risking delay due to analysis paralysis, or something like that. It may be that praying is akin to meditation in this circumstance and may calm down your emotional response and enable some clearer thinking. IOW when you pray to God you might actually be praying to yourself to calm down a tad and come up with a new course of action. Praying for "inspiration from God" but not really from getting it from a god. Like you might think better if you had another person with you. Our minds are highly emotional. Who designed this thing? 
Very good point, Animated Earth.
I remember reading somewhere that the 'design' of our brain would not permit total suppression of emotion or even to the degree of the fictional Vulcans of Star Trek. Something about everything going through an emotional filter before it even reaches our analytical brain. It seems like a crappy 'design' all right.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein RE: Testing the strength of your Atheism
January 22, 2015 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 12:19 pm by Alex K.)
AFTT47,
Yep. Think about it - none of your actions can ever be purely based on rationality, because logic is simply a system to arrive at conclusions from given premises or axioms. The first motivation for any action must be a non-rational one, be it instinct or emotion. Suppressing all that would mean loss of all inner drive.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
I pray to Mila Kunis all the time. She responds about as often as god does. But, at least I know she's real and better looking.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
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