Atheiart

I think at one point everyone gets to the point where you feel god is particularly not hearing u out and tends to cause some anger on your part. I know i’ve gotten angry many times but that never made me permantely rebel against my God. It’s merely just my human nature. To be honest with you, atheist’s thinking process has only one duty, to destroy. Just like anything else in life, if your miserable than your goin to take everyone down with you. Since they got nothing to live for what better way to live life than to demolish everyone elses faith and create a world that abominates everything in it. I don’t know how any atheist could have a positive mindset. You really have nothing to live for. And living without a cause, is a dead one.

As an atheist myself I’m just gob smacked by your comment Javen.

How can you assume that atheists are miserable, do you even know what the definition of an atheist is? An atheist is a person who doesn’t believe in any superstition. All faith is by default superstition. Because I don’t mind walking under ladders and do not believe there is a god doesn’t make me a miserable, angry person with no appreciation of life.

On the contrary actually. Would you like to know how I derive happiness in my own “dead life” as you put it?

OK, here we go.

Interaction with people, laughing, discussions – usually scientific or political as that is what I and my friends find interesting. Are we depressed by science? No. Are we excited about it? Yes. Do I feel lucky for being born in this current age, definitely, I derive a lot of pleasure out of the sheer coincidence of my time of birth so I have access to this vast pool of quickened globalised knowlege, with tools like the internet at my disposal. I feel extremely lucky, and this makes me very happy, considering my ancestors were not privy to this.

Living in Australia makes me happy and grateful, again to appreciate the pot luck of life. Owning my own house, and truely deriving great pleasures from the block of land my boyfriend and I worked to own. Being able to have creative, expressive, and scientific ideas and not be persecuted for it, again because I live in a decent country, makes me very very happy, appreciative and looking forward to more of the future.

Life makes me happy, the warm sun, the cool breeze on my arse when I get out the shower, the feel on clean sheets, flowers in spring for their sheer free beauty and smell. Animals and animal companionship I derive great pleasure from too.

Love, the love of my family and friends and especially my boyfriend stablizes my life somewhat, gives me security of “who to turn to”, who will give me REAL support, OBJECTIVE answers, and TRUTHFUL advice when I require direction or encouragement, rather than turning to a superstition for guidance. I seldom feel alone in this world, and I have developed enough wisdom to realise that if I did find myself alone in the world, then I would have to muster up enough mental power to soldier on, find other true friends and resources for support if need be and not feel sorry for myself. To be honest, I do not need alot of support in my life because I feel I can rationalize nearly everything which happens to me and understand it well to deal with it. I do not enjoy boredom, so I do tend to hang out with other people by default.

Something I also derive alot of pleasure from is my brain, getting older and aquiring more knowlege. I can’t seem to soak it up fast enough because it is so interesting, inspiring and I can adapt it to my real life, generally either a) make money for me to spend on other pleasures such as airconditioners, travel, yummy foods and b) to share this information with others who also have such a lust for life based on objectivity rather than subjectivity. Mostly I just find history, science, business, politics very very interesting, and as a person who would like to make informed decisions (aka voting) I find this knowlege to be very helpful in making the correct decision.

I enjoy other mindless matters too, such as movies, video games, television, music, dancing, singing, exercise, all which give me good happy vibes.

I’m not angry at you for such a misinformed post, I am more totally gob smacked and kinda embarrassed as a fellow human being – especially with such resources we have (you obviously have the internet) to inform yourself better.You are almost correct in one of your points, but don’t take it as an ego stroke, as your point isn’t elaborated. You state that atheists have one duty to destroy… to destroy what? people, windscreens, society, churches.. what exactly?

I would like to abolish religion, I don’t see it as having any real purpose in life to be honest considering I’m enjoying life as a moral human being with out it. Your statement alone proves what scares me the most about religion, that it dumbs people down to such a state that free thought is not encouraged (infact I believe religions one mission is to DESTROY all other religion, and free thought, and to inevitably create one dictatorship of power, which ofcourse, is easily seduced and corrupted and used for personal profit).

Now you say to yourself with satisfaction that I have just offended god with that comment and will probably not make it through the gates of heaven to justify your mindlessness. Well not much I can do about rationalizing your own thoughts in your own head. However for me, hey I can do what ever I want, say what ever I want, if I was so inclined to prove to you that I do not feel threatened on this earth by God, I’d go so far as to try to offend a superstition to prove my point, such as, I dunno, cutting up a bible, burning it, pissing on the wall of a church, not because I hate it, but because I know there will no consequences and to state otherwise is just – well again, superstition. And hey, breaking mirrors doesn’t worry me either.