[Serious] When God isn't the answer to the question, then what is?

[The Grand Nudger]

Those holes wont fill themselves!

[fredd bear]

Beccs, did he just call you a big ape!

I'd teach him a lesson by slinging some shit his way!

 That brings back memories of George, an orangutang at the local zoo. Kids loved him. Mothers, not so much:

When I was little, my mother put me in a sailor suit. At the zoo looking at George,.He beckoned, so I moved closer to his cage: Splllatttt! My sailor suit was suddenly covered in orangutang poo.. My mother was really pissed off.

George had a swing made from an old tire. He would sit there for hours. Sometimes he would insert digit into rectum, then into mouth. He also spent a lot of time quietly masturbating.

George died many years ago. There is a life size bronze bust of George paid for by public subscription. Mother refused to subscribe, she never forgave George for the sailor suit.

Thank the FSM zoos with  cages are pretty much a thing of the past here.. We even have an open zoo, on about 1200 acres, with mainly African animals.

[LadyForCamus]

Those holes wont fill themselves!

[Fake Messiah]

Really, when you think about it, Bible is actually a very poor source for answers. Even in the past the ancient Jews who took their answers from the Bible every time that earthquake happened, or if they suffered from drought, or if King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judaea and exiled its people: they saw it as punishments from their God for their own sins.

Bible completely fails to recognize the possibility that perhaps the drought resulted from a volcanic eruption in another part of the world, that Nebuchadnezzar invaded in pursuit of Babylonian commercial interests and that King Cyrus had his own political reasons to favor the Jews.

While at the same time polytheists and animists had much more sober and more accurate perception of reality. Greek historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides, and Chinese historians such as Sima Qian  explained that wars and revolutions break out due to a plethora of political, social and economic factors. People may fall victim to a war for no fault of their own. That should be one of the telltale signs to religious people that Bible was written by primitive people (than God) when Herodotus and Thucydides understood reality much better than the authors of the Bible.

Needles to say Bible is even more useless today as are Quran and the Vedas. Bible accordingly shows no interest whatsoever in understanding the global ecology.
It is even more useless for the people of the future for they will not find the answers to any the questions pressing people in the future in the Quran or sharia law, nor in the Bible, the questions like: What will happen to the job market once artificial intelligence outperforms humans in most cognitive tasks? What will be the political impact of a massive new class of economically useless people? What will happen to relationships, families and pension funds when nanotechnology and regenerative medicine turn eighty into the new fifty? What will happen to human society when biotechnology enables us to have designer babies, and to open unprecedented gaps between rich and poor?

And yet Islamic fundamentalists repeat the mantra that ‘Islam is the answer’ as do Christians for Christianity and that may be quite a problem if people stick to their primitive books.

[Brian37]

Questions people who believe answer with God.

- Howcome we are here?

- Who should we serve?

- Who cares for us?



My question is;  how do you, as an atheist, answer these questions?

Too bad they wont read this but.

We are here because of the big bang.

Humans should serve each other, not fictional beings.

Humans should care for each other, fictional beings cant do that, we are all we have.

[SlowCalculations]

Questions people who believe answer with God.

- Howcome we are here?

- Who should we serve?

- Who cares for us?



My question is;  how do you, as an atheist, answer these questions?

How come we are here: Chance and chance isn't always fair we don't get pick and choose if we are born into this universe but what we do get to do is figure out what makes us happy 
while we are living on this earth and what we wish to accomplish or do before our life ends. Sometimes things are simple and aren't always the best answers we wish to get however nothing ever has to be grim there's a lot of things we can do to make life enjoyable and meaningful but it's up to us to find our own paths jobs and experiences to make us happy. 

-Who should we serve. I don't like the word "Serve" think of the meaning of that word a little and you may realize what i mean on your own.  
This is your life for me i live for other people there's a lot of people out here who are just as a chance as we are and who need love support and help and i'm okay with that. 

Who cares for us: You don't need someone controlling your life and actions a lot of people "Care for you" but you got to find those people and sometimes that's difficult but it's not impossible. Along with people caring for you, you also care for yourself we need to learn self care how to accept ourselves and when to be aware of our own feelings when to say no, yes when to walk away ect. That's apart of life.