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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rick Julian who wrote (25684)10/28/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>state where they extract philosophical meaning from
their existence. Personally, I am not interested in quotes from other thinkers <

OK, I'm confused. If not from others, from where should the atheist extract his philosopy? To me the verb "extract" implies an external source.

There is no atheist scripture. It's a contradiction in terms. This is one of the qualities which makes atheism ... interesting. There isn't some cowl&robe guy to lean over your shoulder and tell you "you're doing it wrong". So - to ask for a statement from some central atheist text or mythos is imho not gonna work.

>To date it has been "Rick
vs. The Atheists"<
This strikes me as unfair. First off, is there a single self-identified atheist here? Second off, it's been more like "Rick and Steve and E and Alex and Sam and...". I don't see any real binary division anywhere - rather a room with many voices comparing (sometimes politely) dearly-held ideas and beliefs.

>This could be a very powerful and transformative exercise. It has the potential to
demonstrate the metapotential of on-line interaction regarding a subject of immense
gravity--the meaning of our existence. E? Anyone?<

You imply that the potential is unrealized. I gently disagree. I do think that once the usual ego stuff is winnowed out, we've done and said some neat things here. But we have to remember how subjective the process is. I listen differently - and I hear something you don't. (And you hear something I don't - and I'll just have to take your word for it.)

The whole thing collapses if we allow ourselves to get indignant.
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