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May 28th, 2024 at 12:06pm
now, ik some atheists who flocked to the comfort of religion bc they were lost in their lives & so when i read something like this, i feel like it's very ignorant & im not saying it to insult anyone who believes in this fashion, but more so bc it's hard to believe something you cannot see or feel. before i knew i was agnostic, i considered atheism. i am muslim that comes from a very conservative family so you best believe i watch my mom pray five times a day & fast during the month of ramadan. i do none of this mostly bc i feel like it's disrespecting someone else's belief bc i don't believe that.
- Zinkesis:
- human-beings will not survive and it will simply be the story of sodom and gomorrah all over. immorality and sin is what kills many, many people every single day. murder, rape, etc, that's all sin and that's why people live so miserably and die every day. they choose to be sick and sadistic because they choose not to believe in what the bible teaches them. atheists seem content as well; in trying to ruin the joyful and uplifting belief that other's have in god. why do they try so hard to make other's so miserable? - because they're miserable themselves and don't want you reading the bible of which will guide your life into eternal happiness.
Nietzsche is STILL my obsession
- maidahl:
- Nietzsche was my high school obsession. Seriously, thanks for this article. Title is pretty eye-catching. Drew me in like a moth. Flame. Yaddyyada
I totally agree. There is a thin line between genius and insanity. And most people who are closer to that line have much more interesting and thoughtful ideas than those who society considers "normal". Nietzsche is my favourite philosopher for ALL of his works, especially those closer to his mental break. The letters he wrote to his friends when he was going through this break are VERY intriguing, although most of the time make little to no sense.
- oionigiri:
- Wouldn't you say that there's a thin, thin line between genius and insanity, though?
Just because he wasn't "right in the head," so to speak, it doesn't mean his words weren't true. It's come to my attention that sometimes when people aren't plagued by the mundane, they see the world in their own unique ways and speak words that the rest of us wouldn't have thought of in the first place.
I think his whole "God is dead" idea doesn't come from a world where so many people are becoming atheists, but rather, a world where we make the decision to kill and rape with no remorse.
I think the whole God concept is somewhat of a metaphor, as well -- standards being taught to us to do the right things and make the right choices with the guarantee of it all paying off in the end. I think "God dying" represents these standards being lost, rather than us not believing in him in the first place.
Good essay, though.
This is a very common thought actually, considering God didn't write the bible.
- XxSuicideQueenXx:
- i believe in god i just don't believe in the bible
Ohhh! Haha. Text is so hard to read :P
- The Master.:
- I was being ironic, showing how...illegitimate such views were.
As for some of those things...are they always set in place by religious views? They could as easily be part of non-religious views. But I see where you are coming from.
I always understood that line as indicating that God himself was man-made so...yeah...
I was being ironic, showing how...illegitimate such views were.
- Sunber:
- I disagree. There are a bunch of serial killers who "kill in the name of God" and so on. People who believe in God still commit crimes, they still get depressed, they just have an underlying thought that God has a plan, or that everything will be okay again. But that does not stop people from being depressed.
Interesting.
Hmm...I feel like I tried to explain this; that socio-economic backgrounds, education etc. have been set in place by religious views already, and so they still affect us. God might be dead (according to Nietzsche), but his views and religion are still ingrained in our society, so we haven't gotten rid of him at all.
Actually, atheists are SUPPOSED to be rather different than this. The point behind atheists is that they don't believe in God or religion as a whole. They don't go out telling everyone not to believe in God or trying to make people miserable for believing in God or reading the bible. Instead, they are supposed to feel indifferent towards religion and simply do not believe that there is a God.
- Zinkesis:
- Atheists seem content as well; in trying to ruin the joyful and uplifting belief that other's have in God. Why do they try so hard to make other's so miserable? - Because they're miserable themselves and don't want you reading the Bible of which will guide your life into eternal happiness.
I disagree. There are a bunch of serial killers who "kill in the name of God" and so on. People who believe in God still commit crimes, they still get depressed, they just have an underlying thought that God has a plan, or that everything will be okay again. But that does not stop people from being depressed.
- The Master.:
- Yeah! I mean no theist has ever became depressed, committed crimes or anything like that.
Interesting.
- The Master.:
- I can't help but feel you have missed the bigger picture. A simple deterministic world which is implied with "God's Plan" means that God could not possibily exist. If all cause and effect has an ultimate common cause i.e. the creation of the universe then God cannot change that law which essentially means God cannot exist in the all mighty format that has been popularised by the major Abrahamic religions. With the advent of the uncertainity principle, modern quantum physics has indicated that cause and effect is not as valid as afore thought and as such, God could possibily exist.
Additionally, does having freedom to choose our own path so free? Are we not constrained by socio-economic backgrounds? By our education? Our intelligence level? Our abilities to comply with authority? Our own personalities? Our genetics? How much freedom and choice do we really have?