hey everyone, . I'm an atheist but I keep finding myself coming to the view that 'bad is good and good is bad'. This is particuarly to do with being a materialist and therefore placing physical and psychological needs as being more important than 'moral' restriants and this is nihilistic.
In Christianty, a great deal of our natural desires (particuarly sex) are demonised as sinful- yet really this has little to do with the nature of the act and instead more to do with it challanging authority and social norms. pleasure is sinful, but thats no fun.
This view is basically inherited into Liberalism that human nature is inherently selfish and must therefore be subject to checks in competition and limits to power. I'm steadily rejecting a great deal of the 'traditional' morality which is submission to an authority and entertianing some fairly nihilistic ideas as a result given that what 'the powers that be' say is wrong is precisely what they do. The confusion over the sense of right and wrong gives me a lot of headaches and trying to seperate between caring what happens to people and what people think is pretty tough.
Of course, I realised the Left-hand path has been here before and I'm just a late commer to these problems. You probably know better than answers to these questions, so I wanted to ask;
When you accept no higher authority to judge your actions and to rebel against such power, what do you believe constitutes 'good' or 'evil'? And how is that different from the moral perscription of the authority?
In Christianty, a great deal of our natural desires (particuarly sex) are demonised as sinful- yet really this has little to do with the nature of the act and instead more to do with it challanging authority and social norms. pleasure is sinful, but thats no fun.
This view is basically inherited into Liberalism that human nature is inherently selfish and must therefore be subject to checks in competition and limits to power. I'm steadily rejecting a great deal of the 'traditional' morality which is submission to an authority and entertianing some fairly nihilistic ideas as a result given that what 'the powers that be' say is wrong is precisely what they do. The confusion over the sense of right and wrong gives me a lot of headaches and trying to seperate between caring what happens to people and what people think is pretty tough.
Of course, I realised the Left-hand path has been here before and I'm just a late commer to these problems. You probably know better than answers to these questions, so I wanted to ask;
When you accept no higher authority to judge your actions and to rebel against such power, what do you believe constitutes 'good' or 'evil'? And how is that different from the moral perscription of the authority?