Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (14505)	5/26/2001 6:00:09 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Ah, once again, if we don't believe in your holy roller vision of God, life is meaningless. Your life may be meaningless without God, but you ought not to project that problem onto everybody else.

To: Neocon who wrote (14505)	5/26/2001 6:12:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Imagine that there is a God. But no religion has hit on him exactly. No one. Who is more foolish? The people who have made up a God that is totally dissimilar to the God that really exists, or the people who believe in no God, of the people who chose not to make up their minds since there wasn't enough evidence? The people who said there wasn't enough evidence turn out to be right, but I suppose it would depend upon what the God was like, to know which humans, if any, he, she or it would favor with attention- assuming any human would be so favored. I see no clear winners here. Assume there is no God. Who is happiest? People who believe in a God that does not exist, or people who do not believe, or people who don't know? I am not sure it matters. If religion makes people truly happy, then it's like chocolate, or coffee, or amusement parks, or anything else humans enjoy. As long as it isn't used to hurt other human, no problem. And if not believing leads to happiness for some, what's the problem? Not all of us need absolute values in order to have values. Absolutes, imo, bring nothing to the party, and often are harmful. It isn't play acting to know that I do not want to be injured, and knowing this I refrain from injuring others- although I accept that some people like to be injured, but they are a small minority. It is not play acting to know that I want comfort, and because I do I expect that other people also wish to be comfortable- if people reject comfort explicitly I accept that, but most people seem to prefer to be comfortable. And on and on.