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I don't think you're reading carefully enough: "How they arrived at these false beliefs is not of interest".
Maybe they were inculcated with falseness at their parents' knee. Maybe they learned it from a cult leader. Maybe they read it on a matchbox. The ways to false knowledge are many. None of those accidents matter much. And I have no need of false ways to teach the truth.
How does theism resolve what you consider to be a problem? Would you rather that your purpose be dictated to you?Art? Who cares? It's going to rot.
Helping the poor and sick? Help them do what, get well? Then they will all die? You might just be prolonging their suffering. Even if you could make them live forever, what have you accomplished? There still is no meaning to their existence.
If life formed by accident then, by definition, there is no purpose. A clock has a purpose. It was created to mark time. If it fails to mark time, it's broken because it fails to serve the purpose of its creator. The one who designed it.
Leave out the designer, and:
“Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
So how people arrive at their beliefs is important to you then?
Yes or no?
I've made a clear distinction between false beliefs and true beliefs. If you can't handle that, it's your problem.
Thanks!Broadly speaking then...
Maybe a life of religious faith DOES hold more meaning, on average, than a life without.....But, a life that is a cosmic accident headed full-speed for a permanent grave is hopeless, not happy, as all actions would lack meaning....
Yes I know you have made a distinction between false beliefs and true beliefs. You have also made it clear that you do not think what I believe is the result of conscious choices I have made.
So how exactly do you propose to help me arrive at true beliefs?
Do you use some sort of such subconscious technique like hypnosis or something?
Life is a cosmic accident.
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