[Serious] How Do You Cope?

[arewethereyet]

The thing about hope is that it has always seemed a useless feeling if not also accompanied by action. Having a high degree of hope might personally make you feel better, but it doesn't do a world of good when others are actively destroying society with their conservative tyranny. In order to enact the kind of change that is needed in an ever adaptive society, one must be willing to be as bold in action as the villains are. They are dirty players, and cleaning up their mess means nothing if we're not also willing to retaliate with the same level of shadiness.

That's just my perspective.

How do I actually cope? With cognitive dissonance, putting the entire mess in the back of my mind because action is frankly too much for me to undertake. Unless you consider my writing as action, but who wants to read that drivel.

Which is why I am grateful for people like the CEO Shooter who take real action.

You're actually pleased that a family man with a wife and 2 kids was shot in the back on a public street? That he was targeted and executed? Fucking pathetic, why haven't you been suspended or banned from the forum? 

Also, can you define what conservative tyranny consists of?

I am not happy that someone what shot and killed.  But, I plan to wait till we know what the hell happened leading up to it.  Word from his wife is that he had been receiving threats for a while.  Yes, prosecute the shooter but I still want to know the why.

And if you want to call people here pathetic, maybe go back and read a few of your MAGA dick sucking posts.

Your high horse is limping.

[Ravenshire]

The thing about hope is that it has always seemed a useless feeling if not also accompanied by action. Having a high degree of hope might personally make you feel better, but it doesn't do a world of good when others are actively destroying society with their conservative tyranny. In order to enact the kind of change that is needed in an ever adaptive society, one must be willing to be as bold in action as the villains are. They are dirty players, and cleaning up their mess means nothing if we're not also willing to retaliate with the same level of shadiness.

That's just my perspective.

How do I actually cope? With cognitive dissonance, putting the entire mess in the back of my mind because action is frankly too much for me to undertake. Unless you consider my writing as action, but who wants to read that drivel.

Which is why I am grateful for people like the CEO Shooter who take real action.

You're actually pleased that a family man with a wife and 2 kids was shot in the back on a public street? That he was targeted and executed? Fucking pathetic, why haven't you been suspended or banned from the forum? 

Also, can you define what conservative tyranny consists of?

If members were banned for unpopular opinions, you'd have been gone long ago.

[MR. Macabre 666]

You're actually pleased that a family man with a wife and 2 kids was shot in the back on a public street? That he was targeted and executed? Fucking pathetic, why haven't you been suspended or banned from the forum? 

Also, can you define what conservative tyranny consists of?

If members were banned for unpopular opinions, you'd have been gone long ago.

Which is exactly why I rarely post, or even respond to anything on this forum. Considering that this is supposed to be a forum for atheists, it seems like the vast majority(about 98%) of the members here are practicing the religion of politics. 
The next 4 years are going to be very entertaining watching and listening to all of the Harris/Walz supporters losing their shit. 

And don't forget, this is still a free country, with free speech still being legal. Just because someone else's opinions are unpopular, that doesn't mean that they're wrong. 
Don't believe everything you think.

[Silver]

Got to love the illogical conflation of politics to religion. And just because most atheists just happen to be liberal has little to do with their atheism and more with their humanity.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If members were banned for unpopular opinions, you'd have been gone long ago.

Which is exactly why I rarely post, or even respond to anything on this forum. Considering that this is supposed to be a forum for atheists, it seems like the vast majority(about 98%) of the members here are practicing the religion of politics. 
The next 4 years are going to be very entertaining watching and listening to all of the Harris/Walz supporters losing their shit. 

And don't forget, this is still a free country, with free speech still being legal. Just because someone else's opinions are unpopular, that doesn't mean that they're wrong. 
Don't believe everything you think.

And yet you seem to think Silver should be banned for expressing his opinion. You should really think things through before flapping your yapper.

Boru

[Nay_Sayer]

If members were banned for unpopular opinions, you'd have been gone long ago.

Which is exactly why I rarely post, or even respond to anything on this forum. Considering that this is supposed to be a forum for atheists, it seems like the vast majority(about 98%) of the members here are practicing the religion of politics. 
The next 4 years are going to be very entertaining watching and listening to all of the Harris/Walz supporters losing their shit. 

And don't forget, this is still a free country, with free speech still being legal. Just because someone else's opinions are unpopular, that doesn't mean that they're wrong. 
Don't believe everything you think.

Well, it was. Anyway, the exit door is always open.

[Ahriman]

I cope with energy drinks and pictures of muscular men.

[brewer]

As I age things bother me less and less, probably helps that my world also shrinks.

[Silver]

Change is for the youth who battle against the elderly authoritarians who refuse to let go of the past.

[Thumpalumpacus]

So, it got me thinking "What do Atheists have?". As the world turns to shit and the future looks bleak everywhere you look with bad news and more bad news every day, what still moves you forward?

By remembering that the future may look bleak, but it is not inevitable.

As for worrying about whether death is forever or there might be an afterlife. I haven't worried about that in four decades. Like @"Szuchow" I understand that I didn't exist for billions of years, and that going back to that state can only relieve what worries I do carry. Do the best with what I have now.