Swaraj Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 A question for the self-proclaimed rationalism police. Are we really just randomly mutated primates with our lives having no intrinsic meaning or value - or is there more to life? I am having trouble understanding how life has any meaning in an atheistic, nihilistic worldview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 don't take a job as a pilot ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaraj Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 It's a serious point, though. If they can't come up with an intrinsic meaning or value to life, what exactly is their objection to mass murder by 20th century communist dictators and what basis would they have had for any opposition to slavery if they had been around in the 1800s? Saying "treat others as you'd like to be treated" or "we're all equal" sounds nice but there is no basis for it in a nihilistic worldview. At best, they believe it because they're still to some extent influenced by a legacy of two millenia of Judeo-Christian values. There's no way you'd arrive at such a conclusion in a dechristianised and exclusively nihilistic and atheistic system based solely on rationalism and utility. Such ideas are spiritual in origin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Cold beer and Asian ladies ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Mass manufacturing of.. socks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sick Moon Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Asian ladies ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Stevens Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Get hold of or buy on line some of the "Silver Birch" series of books. They are a bit scarce being rather off mainstream so you will not see any in libraries or bookshops as such but you can get them from the Spiritualists National Union, Stansted Hall, Essex. That's the big house you can see on the edge of what is it M11 or is it M25 on the far side of Stansted Runway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bees Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I have some Asian friends and they're very nice but I don't think they'd consider themselves to be the meaning of life. The meaning of life is an egg mcmuffin 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 As aeons have passed since humans first asked themselves this question, surely the 'meaning' is transient? Stop having a pop at Atheists, TJ.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sick Moon Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I have some Asian friends and they're very nice but I don't think they'd consider themselves to be the meaning of life. Indeed. However, the exploitation of economic disparity makes some of them the meaning of life for ugly western men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bees Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 That's why I haven't been to Thailand and I doubt I'll ever go. I do feel quite sick at the thought of old men perving over young girls, wrong uns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 42... ...DD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sick Moon Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 42... ...DD Your school report is not the meaning of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Understanding the meaning of life requires going on a never ending journey of discovery, continually taking what you are learning, and relating it to the values that you inherit, or establish for yourself, and then seeing what emerges as you go. It's an iterative process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Such ideas are spiritual in origin. As are jihad, transubstantiation, and original sin. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/ http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100825/full/news.2010.427.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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