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It is curious. Especially when one hangs out in a forum with atheists and can clearly read the information provided about what atheists are and are not.Where is the "winner times two" thing?
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It is curious. Especially when one hangs out in a forum with atheists and can clearly read the information provided about what atheists are and are not.Where is the "winner times two" thing?
Apparently, like any other philosophy, some atheists may be convinced that their philosophy is superior to other philosophies. I‘ve noticed a tendency in certain atheist views to be focused on large or cosmic catastrophes that are mostly far beyond our control and always mean our total annihilation. Like a gamma ray burst hitting our planet and transforming our atmosphere into mostly nitrogen dioxide. Or the activity of dark matter or some sub-atomic particles ripping our universe apart or making it collapse, destroying all matter in this process. Or the hysteria about various diseases in far away countries with actually very low mortality rates. What is the good in focusing on catastrophes you mostly cannot prevent? The only effect I see is setting people into permanent panic mode. And what is the solution to this panic mode? Voidism? Consuming more and more?
I was raised with a focus on atheist philosophy but I’ve come to the conclusion that a theism which focuses on reinforcing things like trust and community spirit may be a healthier alternative to an atheistically motivated permanent focus on cataclysms.
Please discuss.
It is curious. Especially when one hangs out in a forum with atheists and can clearly read the information provided about what atheists are and are not.
Apparently, like any other philosophy, some atheists may be convinced that their philosophy is superior to other philosophies. I‘ve noticed a tendency in certain atheist views to be focused on large or cosmic catastrophes that are mostly far beyond our control and always mean our total annihilation. Like a gamma ray burst hitting our planet and transforming our atmosphere into mostly nitrogen dioxide. Or the activity of dark matter or some sub-atomic particles ripping our universe apart or making it collapse, destroying all matter in this process. Or the hysteria about various diseases in far away countries with actually very low mortality rates. What is the good in focusing on catastrophes you mostly cannot prevent? The only effect I see is setting people into permanent panic mode. And what is the solution to this panic mode? Voidism? Consuming more and more?
I was raised with a focus on atheist philosophy but I’ve come to the conclusion that a theism which focuses on reinforcing things like trust and community spirit may be a healthier alternative to an atheistically motivated permanent focus on cataclysms.
Please discuss.
I think the real question is why is it theists look to God to try to deal with these problems for them, while the atheist tries to do something constructive about it because they realize it's up to them?Apparently, like any other philosophy, some atheists may be convinced that their philosophy is superior to other philosophies. I‘ve noticed a tendency in certain atheist views to be focused on large or cosmic catastrophes that are mostly far beyond our control and always mean our total annihilation. Like a gamma ray burst hitting our planet and transforming our atmosphere into mostly nitrogen dioxide. Or the activity of dark matter or some sub-atomic particles ripping our universe apart or making it collapse, destroying all matter in this process. Or the hysteria about various diseases in far away countries with actually very low mortality rates. What is the good in focusing on catastrophes you mostly cannot prevent? The only effect I see is setting people into permanent panic mode. And what is the solution to this panic mode? Voidism? Consuming more and more?
I was raised with a focus on atheist philosophy but I’ve come to the conclusion that a theism which focuses on reinforcing things like trust and community spirit may be a healthier alternative to an atheistically motivated permanent focus on cataclysms.
Please discuss.
Anyway, to add to what I posted earlier, there are some things that we can't do much about and many that we can do something. And if we can make the lives better for ourselves and subsequent generations by dealing with these latter issues, that are mostly man-made, then we should do so, and even perhaps do as much as possible to cope with the life-extinguishing events where we can too.
Apparently, like any other philosophy, some atheists may be convinced that their philosophy is superior to other philosophies. I‘ve noticed a tendency in certain atheist views to be focused on large or cosmic catastrophes that are mostly far beyond our control and always mean our total annihilation. Like a gamma ray burst hitting our planet and transforming our atmosphere into mostly nitrogen dioxide. Or the activity of dark matter or some sub-atomic particles ripping our universe apart or making it collapse, destroying all matter in this process. Or the hysteria about various diseases in far away countries with actually very low mortality rates. What is the good in focusing on catastrophes you mostly cannot prevent? The only effect I see is setting people into permanent panic mode. And what is the solution to this panic mode? Voidism? Consuming more and more?
I was raised with a focus on atheist philosophy but I’ve come to the conclusion that a theism which focuses on reinforcing things like trust and community spirit may be a healthier alternative to an atheistically motivated permanent focus on cataclysms.
Please discuss.
Have you got any examples of this, because I've not seen any talk of imminent catastrophy. It is just science, we are interested how the world begins and how it may end.Apparently, like any other philosophy, some atheists may be convinced that their philosophy is superior to other philosophies. I‘ve noticed a tendency in certain atheist views to be focused on large or cosmic catastrophes that are mostly far beyond our control and always mean our total annihilation. Like a gamma ray burst hitting our planet and transforming our atmosphere into mostly nitrogen dioxide. Or the activity of dark matter or some sub-atomic particles ripping our universe apart or making it collapse, destroying all matter in this process. Or the hysteria about various diseases in far away countries with actually very low mortality rates. What is the good in focusing on catastrophes you mostly cannot prevent? The only effect I see is setting people into permanent panic mode. And what is the solution to this panic mode? Voidism? Consuming more and more?
I was raised with a focus on atheist philosophy but I’ve come to the conclusion that a theism which focuses on reinforcing things like trust and community spirit may be a healthier alternative to an atheistically motivated permanent focus on cataclysms.
Please discuss.
A wide current through Christianity has been preaching the
passive acceptance of a sorry lot in life with the promise
of better things to come.
And the belief than conservation is pointless, god gave us
this stuff to use, ( it is all corrupt anyhow)
and when time comes, it will all wash away and be replaced
with paradise.
(Oh dear, am I being a atheist obsessed with doom,
if I notice that this may not work out?)
Imagination is 100% awesome and amazing.Atheists seem to generally be people who have become stuck in their own egotistical presumptions about "objective reality" and "evidence", as if these somehow rendered imagination insignificant.
This is a laugh, surely? Have you not seem the religious doom-mongers on this site - many having different versions of the apocalypse facing us? Atheist or not, those who look at the evidence from our past, and what science tells us about the possible threats we face (who knows when?), shows it would be rather foolish to discount the possibility of any of these occurring - even if the odds are minimal. 65 millions years ago a rather large object hit the Earth, destroying much of life, and unfortunately we don't seem to have the capability of detecting ALL such threats. Our particular nasty object might appear at any time - with us being entirely unable to do anything about it. That's (one) reality.
Only those who can't place these threats into perspective are liable to permanent panic mode - that is, if we can't do anything about such threats then why worry and just accept this fact. Individually, we know we are all going to die, such that why should it even bother us if it applied to the whole human race?
Literally the only thing I can think of in this vein that I have ever seen from atheists is in their pointing out that random activity of "the universe" can, factually, destroy us, and using that to help another understand why they don't believe in God. Because if it can be evidenced that something like this has happened in the past (like the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs), and the same sorts of things occur in the universe currently, then the same possibility exists. God apparently didn't intervene on behalf of the dinosaurs, and from what we can see in reality as it presents itself to us now, God isn't around to intervene on our behalf either.Please discuss.
I only see the world changing. I'd like it to continue containing human-kind, but I understand that if it doesn't, that's no skin off "the universe's back." From a human perspective, "the end" is the end of human life - but that's not really some ultimate "end." Not hardly.How is atheism any different?
What do you think "climate change" is?
Face it, deep in their heart even atheists understand that it feels like end times. So they too have doom and gloom messages encouraging people to recycle more, or whatever. As if the things of this world can save you.
Apparently, like any other philosophy, some atheists may be convinced that their philosophy is superior to other philosophies. I‘ve noticed a tendency in certain atheist views to be focused on large or cosmic catastrophes that are mostly far beyond our control and always mean our total annihilation. Like a gamma ray burst hitting our planet and transforming our atmosphere into mostly nitrogen dioxide. Or the activity of dark matter or some sub-atomic particles ripping our universe apart or making it collapse, destroying all matter in this process. Or the hysteria about various diseases in far away countries with actually very low mortality rates. What is the good in focusing on catastrophes you mostly cannot prevent? The only effect I see is setting people into permanent panic mode. And what is the solution to this panic mode? Voidism? Consuming more and more?
I was raised with a focus on atheist philosophy but I’ve come to the conclusion that a theism which focuses on reinforcing things like trust and community spirit may be a healthier alternative to an atheistically motivated permanent focus on cataclysms.
Please discuss.
well howsabout pompously pronouncing purported profundities???Imagination is 100% awesome and amazing.
Believing what you only imagine is NOT.
How is atheism any different?
What do you think "climate change" is?
Face it, deep in their heart even atheists understand that it feels like end times. So they too have doom and gloom messages encouraging people to recycle more, or whatever. As if the things of this world can save you.
How is atheism any different?
What do you think "climate change" is?
Face it, deep in their heart even atheists understand that it feels like end times. So they too have doom and gloom messages encouraging people to recycle more, or whatever. As if the things of this world can save you.
Same here.Perhaps it is a local thing?
I have not run into any of the atheists described in your OP.
I have encountered numerous theists who concentrate on the end of the world in an attempt to sell their beliefs to others.