I notice this as well Hippie. Everybody thinks that their way of thinking is the best. I wonder why that realization alone doesn't give more of us pause and enable us to open our minds more. I thought atheists would be more open minded but this site has taught me that they are no different from religious types at all. I guess human nature doesn't change much regardless of what you believe.
I notice this as well Hippie. Everybody thinks that their way of thinking is the best. I wonder why that realization alone doesn't give more of us pause and enable us to open our minds more. I thought atheists would be more open minded but this site has taught me that they are no different from religious types at all. I guess human nature doesn't change much regardless of what you believe.
Cool, really good to hear. Truthfully speaking to my mother whos really quite a tough cookie and normally gets shit right. She just thinks and i think its true, women just have better shit to do in there time than bother with religion...Because mostly it doesnt involve them and athiesm they just dont care. Im in Britiain so the situation is diffferent from you guys in the U.S but cool to hear
Cool, really good to hear. Truthfully speaking to my mother whos really quite a tough cookie and normally gets shit right. She just thinks and i think its true, women just have better shit to do in there time than bother with religion...Because mostly it doesnt involve them and athiesm they just dont care. Im in Britiain so the situation is diffferent from you guys in the U.S but cool to hear
Damn, sorry to hear about all of that. but yeah my mums been through lots of peeps dieing when she was a child. And similarly to ur mother i suppose? but not really. My mum has always said to me when i was growing up, if god does exist, hes an absolute wanker.
See, you automatically disagree with me which more or less proves my point. You think you are right, they think they are right. To deny this is to deny fundamental human nature. I didn't mean to say this was an absolute but it is definitely the norm. Tell me that you don't know you are correct. My dear grandmother, whom I love wholeheartedly, is very religious and she will tell you to your face that she knows she is correct. And for anybody to deny this is to deny a look at their own self and way of thinking. Stop for 2 seconds and open your mind. Allow yourself to think: maybe I am wrong about everything I think about religion. It's a fact of human nature. We all think our way of thinking is the correct one.
Your just annoying, im not saying its absolute either. The truth is, if they are fucking right they cant say theres been much wrong with athiests, we arent violently doing much we arent keeping kosher or going to church or rapping our women up in burqas no. but we are still being charitable and thers a large proportion of them working high up in science ( richard dawkins gives the percentage in his talk i think less than 10percent of the top 400 chemists and biologists believe in a personal god? i cant remember exactly ) and all im saying is, as athiests when we are showing the proof we think is admirable and sufficient we will be the first ones to admit we are wrong.See, you automatically disagree with me which more or less proves my point. You think you are right, they think they are right. To deny this is to deny fundamental human nature. I didn't mean to say this was an absolute but it is definitely the norm. Tell me that you don't know you are correct. My dear grandmother, whom I love wholeheartedly, is very religious and she will tell you to your face that she knows she is correct. And for anybody to deny this is to deny a look at their own self and way of thinking. Stop for 2 seconds and open your mind. Allow yourself to think: maybe I am wrong about everything I think about religion. It's a fact of human nature. We all think our way of thinking is the correct one.
Yup, thats where the whole evolutionary perspective comes into play. We can see that religion once was of utmost importance, when people went to war and when people were in famine it was religion thta kept their hope and possibly led them on to survive/defend from people. But, this is all big phoney ball shti im on gonna speak about...Like terence says, like aldous says and like as we see and the world is showing...We are speeding up and become increasingly complex, religion is slowly loosing importance and is having a negative effect.
If I'm annoying you then I must be doing something right................making you think! OUCH!!! It hurts my brain! Look man, you don't have to agree with me just like I don't have to agree with you. I share many of your feelings about organized religion but when I see things like "Christianity is dangerous" or "Religion encompasses everything wrong with the world" it gives me pause. It's a blanket statement, a generalization being made. Which is a stereotype. To make blanket statements is to deny the reality of what religion is and does. Is religion perfect? Of course not but show me any human institution which is perfect. Can religion be dangerous? Of course it can but do churches feed the hungry and clothe the poor? Do priests molest little boys? Of course but does every priest molest? Come on! You are all intelligent people..............start behaving like it for a change.
I do have pity on her,even though she wasn't exactly super mom.After dad died,we went hungry a lot while she went out partying....and I got beat on a bit there by her...I think it was a way to get back at my dad for the things he did to her and my half brothers,because I was his favorite and wasn't mistreated.I used to resent her for it,but I don't anymore.However, I will bring it up if she starts running her mouth and trying to tell me how to raise my kids...basically letting her know she has no room to talk,because I may yell a bit sometimes, but it's nowhere near what she did as a mother.I think we end up being our own instrument of "karma".We become on the outside what we think we are on the inside a lot of the time. Imagine being one of the great beauties of your town, if not your nation,and ending up the complete opposite of what you were.And I'm sure she feels she deserves it sometimes.
Ha! Perhaps your are correct. The point is though is that nobody really knows. One can suspect, believe, or even srumise, but nobody can really know. Which brings us full circle in our logic.............Thank you and goodnight!
Isn't that a bit superstitous for somebody who is an atheist?
Isn't that a bit superstitous for somebody who is an atheist?