Basically… my reaction to hearing the good word of Atheism was to cling to New Age as hard as possible and believe the Skeptics were just miserable and calling anything inconvenient to their beliefs “Psuedoscience”
That lasted… a while… thankfully I’m not on the Spirit Science train anymlre
Now I’m a Buddhist and am learning to be cool with the temporary nature of existence and am looking forward to rebirth in the Pure Land.
The Problem with New Atheism is that humans need hope and hope isn’t something Dawkins offers.
That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.
My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.
Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.
That looks like a healthy cry. She will go through much self reflection and come about as a better person.
Nope! She has spent her life with a religious as her backbone and now will seek it as a crutch with greater desparation. Trauma…survival mode…etc…
Basically… my reaction to hearing the good word of Atheism was to cling to New Age as hard as possible and believe the Skeptics were just miserable and calling anything inconvenient to their beliefs “Psuedoscience”
That lasted… a while… thankfully I’m not on the Spirit Science train anymlre
Now I’m a Buddhist and am learning to be cool with the temporary nature of existence and am looking forward to rebirth in the Pure Land.
The Problem with New Atheism is that humans need hope and hope isn’t something Dawkins offers.
That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.
My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.
Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.