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Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 4:53 pm
New to this site and actually atheism. I’m here to know more about atheism and how people convert to it. My questions are below. If you have time please take a moment to help me understand more of the atheist view. These questions are intended for those who espouse the atheist view but if you are from another belief system feel free to answer.
What do you consider as prime reality?
What is the purpose of history or does it serve a purpose?
How did human existence begin?
What is morality?
Where do you decide what is right and wrong?
What do you believe in with absolute certainty?
Thanks in advance.
Max
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 5:02 pm
The same thing that anyone else considers prime reality.
History is a story about where we've been and what we've done. It has no singular purpose because human beings have no singular motivating purpose.
Tough question, but human existence as we know it began with the adoption of full modernity sometime between 50k and 10k years ago, depending on the criteria used for full modernity.
Morality is a term we use to describe the subject of what we think is right and wrong, and the relationship between those concepts and ourselves.
I decide what's right and whats wrong wherever I happen to be at, at any given moment. That's the only place I ever decide anything.
Nothing.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 5:04 pm
(December 12, 2019 at 4:53 pm)maxolla Wrote: New to this site and actually atheism. I’m here to know more about atheism and how people convert to it. My questions are below. If you have time please take a moment to help me understand more of the atheist view. These questions are intended for those who espouse the atheist view but if you are from another belief system feel free to answer.
What do you consider as prime reality?
What is the purpose of history or does it serve a purpose?
How did human existence begin?
What is morality?
Where do you decide what is right and wrong?
What do you believe in with absolute certainty?
Thanks in advance.
Max
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 5:07 pm
Anyone who thinks you "convert" to atheism is a couple of snags short of a barbie ….. or a troll.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 5:11 pm
(December 12, 2019 at 4:53 pm)maxolla Wrote: What do you consider as prime reality?
I don't.
Quote:What is the purpose of history or does it serve a purpose?
History doesn't have a purpose. However, it can serve the purpose of teaching us, if we fucking bothered to learn.
Quote:How did human existence begin?
Very slowly.
Quote:What is morality?
A human construct that helps us measure whether we're shitheads or not.
Quote:Where do you decide what is right and wrong?
In my brain.
Quote:What do you believe in with absolute certainty?
Lots and lots of things. I'm uncertain about more, though.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 5:51 pm
Why am I an atheist.
Because I don’t believe in deities.
I’ve ssen your other posts in the Islam thread so I’ll ignore the other questions since they’re loaded.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 5:57 pm
A house adjoining a clean lake or river in a quiet neighborhood or with acreage.
Knowledge is both the means to an end and an end in itself.
Humans didn't truly live until they began to tell lies.
Morality is an iced brownie with a cool stout.
After the fact.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 6:15 pm
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(December 12, 2019 at 5:57 pm)Ranjr Wrote: A house adjoining a clean lake or river in a quiet neighborhood or with acreage.
Knowledge is both the means to an end and an end in itself.
Humans didn't truly live until they began to tell lies.
Morality is an iced brownie with a cool stout.
After the fact.
Math and bad Haiku.
I have to agree with you on 1, 2 and at one time 4 and 5 didn’t understand 6. Thanks for the reply.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 6:26 pm
Quote:What do you consider as prime reality?
I've honestly never thought that much about it. I deal with day-to-day reality and let 'prime reality' look after itself.
Quote:What is the purpose of history or does it serve a purpose?
'History' is all the stuff that happened before right now. The study of history serves to give us an insight into human nature and societal evolution.
Quote:How did human existence begin?
By splitting from our shared ancestor with chimpanzees.
Quote:What is morality?
The attempt to determine right from wrong.
Quote:Where do you decide what is right and wrong?
Inside my brain (not trying to be flip, I'm just not sure I understand the question).
Quote:What do you believe in with absolute certainty?
Lots of things - that people are generally well-meaning, that most meats are better with gravy, that recreational skydiving is indicative of a mental disorder, and so on. Can you be more specific?
Quote:Thanks in advance.
You're welcome retroactively.
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RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 12, 2019 at 6:26 pm
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(December 12, 2019 at 5:02 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Thanks for the thoughtful reply
The same thing that anyone else considers prime reality.
Is your reality based in purely existential knowledge?
History is a story about where we've been and what we've done. It has no singular purpose because human beings have no singular motivating purpose.
Is there a purpose beyond our brief existence as humans?
Tough question, but human existence as we know it began with the adoption of full modernity sometime between 50k and 10k years ago, depending on the criteria used for full modernity.
I’m not familiar with this concept. Is there a record of this adopting principle and what was before full modernity?
Morality is a term we use to describe the subject of what we think is right and wrong, and the relationship between those concepts and ourselves.
Where does the concept come from? Tribal belief, within ourselves, or evolution of the species or something else?
I decide what's right and whats wrong wherever I happen to be at, at any given moment. That's the only place I ever decide anything.
so, posed now with a moral dilemma or decision of morality you cannot give a decisive answer until the actual scenario presents itself?
Nothing.
Thanks again for answering thoughtfully.
I guess I should have been more specific with question 5. Where does the concept of right and wrong come from? To be even more specific...when posed with a horror where does the horror response originate? Why do people find, say, genocide horrific? Is it a socially learned response, innate, or something else?
(December 12, 2019 at 6:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quote:What do you consider as prime reality?
I've honestly never thought that much about it. I deal with day-to-day reality and let 'prime reality' look after itself.
Quote:What is the purpose of history or does it serve a purpose?
'History' is all the stuff that happened before right now. The study of history serves to give us an insight into human nature and societal evolution.
Quote:How did human existence begin?
By splitting from our shared ancestor with chimpanzees.
Quote:What is morality?
The attempt to determine right from wrong.
Quote:Where do you decide what is right and wrong?
Inside my brain (not trying to be flip, I'm just not sure I understand the question).
Quote:What do you believe in with absolute certainty?
Lots of things - that people are generally well-meaning, that most meats are better with gravy, that recreational skydiving is indicative of a mental disorder, and so on. Can you be more specific?
Quote:Thanks in advance.
You're welcome retroactively.
Quote:Max
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