Topic: you are truly alone in your experience of existence
+Anonymous A — 13.5 years ago #19,293
+Syntax — 13.5 years ago, 14 minutes later[T] [B] #236,541
+ !KIEFxCVEY. — 13.5 years ago, 5 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #236,619
yes, everyone percieves their own reality. but you can try to explore the same conscious expansions with a bud or GalPal via psychoactive nature plants and things.
+Anonymous D — 13.5 years ago, 9 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[T] [B] #236,622
lol @ drugs that turn you into a solipsist.Ci͓̩̲̜̻̖̺a̮͚̣o̟̫͚̤̙͚̮,͓͓̬̙ ̗̼̫̠̘̥T͎̤̲̰̖he͙̱ ̥͓͈̦̳͔D͇o͍̮̙͖ct̼͍̘̖͚ͅo̞̪̳͙r̗͔̥̟̙̖̪.̟
+Anonymous E — 13.5 years ago, 3 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #236,700
Well, of course. Nobody else has lived the exact same circumstances as me.
·Hello !KiTtY4Diw. (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 8 months later, 8 months after the original post[T] [B] #342,244
Bump+Anonymous F — 12.8 years ago, 2 hours later, 8 months after the original post[T] [B] #342,368
First, I'd like to thank you for not being one those edgy-teen pretend atheists you mentioned seeing on youtube. Yes, pretending. Since atheism doesn't really entail any set of rules, they don't feel like there's any moral code or standard of human decency they should adhere to. So they take it to the extreme and try to be as absolutely offensive and rude as possible to anyone who doesn't think like them. You're pretty dead on with saying they've turned it into a religion. Anti-theism? Unfortunately, the uninformed, vocal minority (at least, I'd like to think they're the minority) have a tendency to ruin it for the rest of us.
Personally, I don't consider myself fully atheist. Being raised Christian, I think a small part of me will always wonder how else a bunch of people who lived over 2000 years ago could possibly put together the largest troll in history and somehow it has continued for this long. Realistically, I don't take any stock in prayer, but I won't protest when my grandparents say grace around the dinner table. I have no doubt that death is the end, but I think Heaven as a concept is a necessary human coping mechanism for dealing with the grief of losing a person forever. Hell on the other hand, is just a silly scare tactic to try and persuade people to behave, but feigning sincerity isn't much better when you feel resentful for being manipulated.
Overall, there's lots of good messages taught by religion, but I feel our species has reached an evolutionary stage where we have the mental capacity and racial diversity to know that we're all basically the same and are beginning to understand that we don't necessarily have to believe in any "higher power" in order to live in harmony with each other. However, it will be quite a while before we really discard religion as a way of interpreting the world we live in. I mean, the idea that our entire existence is a series or random scientific anomalies over millions of years in which our lives are minutely insignificant; isn't exactly a comforting outlook on life.
Of course, the people we see on youtube wouldn't understand any of this because they're just looking for attention by being what they perceive is an "extreme" or "edgy" ideology. Atheism isn't some exciting counter-culture club. It's just another boring way of looking at your life.
The only thing I really have against organized religion is they tendency it has to split us all into factions and encourage us to laud our ideas over others as if we are superior than them because of our *beliefs*.
We're all born into a world we had no choice in entering. We all feel pain. And at the end of it all, we die and get thrown in a hole in the ground (if we're lucky). What we make of ourselves in between is up to us. If there is intelligent life out there, what does it say about our species that we stubbornly cling to an archaic idea of myth-enforced self-control that pits us against each other on the basis of the main character, rather than seeing those myths for what they are and acknowledging that the basic lessons are the same?
Personally, I don't consider myself fully atheist. Being raised Christian, I think a small part of me will always wonder how else a bunch of people who lived over 2000 years ago could possibly put together the largest troll in history and somehow it has continued for this long. Realistically, I don't take any stock in prayer, but I won't protest when my grandparents say grace around the dinner table. I have no doubt that death is the end, but I think Heaven as a concept is a necessary human coping mechanism for dealing with the grief of losing a person forever. Hell on the other hand, is just a silly scare tactic to try and persuade people to behave, but feigning sincerity isn't much better when you feel resentful for being manipulated.
Overall, there's lots of good messages taught by religion, but I feel our species has reached an evolutionary stage where we have the mental capacity and racial diversity to know that we're all basically the same and are beginning to understand that we don't necessarily have to believe in any "higher power" in order to live in harmony with each other. However, it will be quite a while before we really discard religion as a way of interpreting the world we live in. I mean, the idea that our entire existence is a series or random scientific anomalies over millions of years in which our lives are minutely insignificant; isn't exactly a comforting outlook on life.
Of course, the people we see on youtube wouldn't understand any of this because they're just looking for attention by being what they perceive is an "extreme" or "edgy" ideology. Atheism isn't some exciting counter-culture club. It's just another boring way of looking at your life.
The only thing I really have against organized religion is they tendency it has to split us all into factions and encourage us to laud our ideas over others as if we are superior than them because of our *beliefs*.
We're all born into a world we had no choice in entering. We all feel pain. And at the end of it all, we die and get thrown in a hole in the ground (if we're lucky). What we make of ourselves in between is up to us. If there is intelligent life out there, what does it say about our species that we stubbornly cling to an archaic idea of myth-enforced self-control that pits us against each other on the basis of the main character, rather than seeing those myths for what they are and acknowledging that the basic lessons are the same?
+Anonymous G — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 months after the original post[T] [B] #342,372
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