reply to post by valiant
Thank you! I know that I am raising some shackles and that is not my intent, but it is to question our beliefs even if they don't support ours. I
think that is what ATS is all about and why I stick around. Otherwise, I would leave.
reply to post by karl 12
I really like that cartoon! Very apropos.
reply to post by kyanther
As an atheist, sometimes I wish that I did believe in a GD. It would make my life so much easier. But I can't trust a bunch of primitive
peoples ideas.
My atheism has made me neurotic, suffer from panic attacks, deal with insomnia, obsessive.. all because my brain has been condidtioned to believe that
these stories must be true, because they have survived this long, yet make no sense.
I appreciate your honesty probably more than anything on this thread!
Here is my take: redefine God!!! Leave the religious and Biblical one behind. Get to know a NEW God NOT of your understanding. This is why I wrote
this thread:
Are We Humans an Experiment...? I am trying to teach a new way of viewing
God and I am using the science approach. View him as the greatest scientist of all!
Let go of the Bible stories. God doesn't need them!
I don't understand the comment about atheists not being able to pick out patterns, as I see plenty of patterns, EVERYWHERE. I know that this
statement isn't true, and whoever made it is wrong.
The point: do you know what to do with those patterns? Some are right brained, but are conditioned to place more emphasis on only the left so this
leaves many with an under-used creative, imaginative side.
reply to post by miragezero
but once I had some dim hope unnamed that our curiosity and technology would help us understand and become something better than what we are
eventually... and it will! Transhumanism defined really set my mind at ease... even if there is no god we can still explore, live forever and discover
whatever the universe has to offer.... i guess my new religion is technology, including mother nature's technology :-)
Awfully lonely! If you can withstand a concrete and glass outlook, then more power to you. But there are gray areas to life, also.
I prefer searching out the unknown that man cannot create. If we limit ourselves without the function of a higher consciousness (God). Then - how
boring! To have our lives depend so much on man and his knowledge. Even if you would call my outlook delusional, then fine by me!
Atheism is far too dim and narrow. Come out of the box and search for a new understanding. You may actually find it will make you happier.
reply to post by pcgeek
I will not change how I feel to FIT IN. I choose to question the norms and will continue to, I never argue with religious folks, what is the
point. We can never win because they have something we don't, BLIND FAITH.
But...don't you see! This is exactly what you are doing, fitting in. Different group, different religion, same box. Same words, spoken over and over
by the same group. Each quoting each other.
Try very hard to come up with something original. My thread is original. Try it!
reply to post by n000b
Im going to piss people off when i say this :p but aint this what this sites for ?
Hehehe, and how long have you been here? Re-read the forums.
Again, the mental block! I am not talking religion! I am against religion. This is a standard left brain atheist argument mimicking other atheists.
reply to post by FritosBBQTwist
You take a concept (organized religion) and make it your own. Yet I imagine that there is more to it then religious followers think. There is
no way what we have been told by normal humans is the base of our existence.
Maybe it is you who are left-brained, and can not think of anything besides an old tradition.
Oh my, sweetie! Did you read any of the op? At all? Any of the subsequent posts? I won't slap your hand too hard, but this is a case of contempt
prior to investigation, or you need a new pair of reading glasses! Assumption can be an embarrassing thing at times, right?
What would your professor tell you, in school or not?
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Thank you very much! Maybe now, we can have an intelligent conversation, and one that actually comes from each and every one of your own gray
cells!
