Quote (18nomaUSEast @ May 13 2022 11:13am)
Atheism is a lack of belief in a god or gods.
This is the correct answer.
Quote (Ephesians61213 @ May 13 2022 01:54am)
So... help me out here because atheism as a worldview appears to be retarded.
I think faith in an invisible sky daddy is silly. But we are entitled to our worldview.
Best answer to the universe from our perspective is this:
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“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
HP Lovecraft said this about nihilism:
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
--HP Lovecraft
Quote (Sioux @ May 13 2022 10:26pm)
And you complete the circle yet again.
All modern theology has is tautology. I'm good friends with a chaplain and they do great work. Religion and spirituality work for some people when dealing with the actuality of nihilism.
This post was edited by Skinned on May 13 2022 08:29pm