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Oops, Ana I apologies if you are a dude :/
Sure, just don't expect the answer to the meaning of life to come easily.
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I remember Ana revealing to be a dude a while back.
Because satisfactory answers are really easy. And I take them. I always have.
Sure, just don't expect the answer to the meaning of life to come easily.
Came pretty easy to me. It's relative to me and me alone.
If my beliefs about what is true turns out to be true, I will be rewarded with everlasting life(life that is far better than current life). If my beliefs about what is true turns out to be false and God does not exist, I will simply vanish into nothingness when I die. I much prefer everlasting life with a perfect God over vanishing into nothingness
Objectivity is pointless if we just cease to exist when we die.
I don't see how an atheist can justify their opposition to God
All atheists should deeply ask themselves "What is my true motivation?"
It seems the true motivation is to watch Christian stumble and fall and for what?
So you can be right? Seems like very self righteous behavior.
My motivation is to try and help you understand my beliefs so you can share in the hope and joy I find in Jesus Christ.
I'm pretty sure Ana the Ist is a girl, but I could be wrong
That is a very easy meaning of your life because in that meaning you're the only being that really matters.
What kind of sense does it make to try and define life for people that are not myself?
Answer that.
You are wrong. It's a play on spelling.
Ana the Ist.
AnatheIst.
An atheist.
His name isn't "Ana". He's a guy.
eudaimonia,
Mark
My motivation is similar, so you can see that atheists can lead meaningful lives, regardless of your path in life.
How about defining another's life as just as valuable as your own life? When you do this though you have to acknowledge that something gives everyone's life value. That something would be beyond your control.
But our paths only met because of God, is there no meaning in that?
I don't value everyone's life like my own. I acknowledge that everyone is alive and respect that their lives should not be interrupted by me if I am not involved with them at all. But I don't value them like myself.
Who are you? Why are you valuable to me?
Value is a relative term. Because one might see something as valuable while another doesn't. So no not everyone's life is valuable to me like my own. You're a person and I'm not a sociopath, so that's as far as you and everyone else I don't know goes.
That doesn't mean I value you, just means I respect you, as a person. And value is nowhere near objective.
Well said, Mark, well said!Hasn't it occurred to you that the motivation might be to see Christians stand up and succeed at life?
You can explain it. But there may be people whose accepted worldview makes it impossible for them to even admit that there are explanations for things that seem impossible for them.This is one of those very difficult questions to answer unless you appeal to a higher meaning than just ourselves. Its seems impossible for empathy to evolve from a kill or be killed evolutionary system. You can't explain empathy using evolution, yet empathy exists in humans.
You can explain it. But there may be people whose accepted worldview makes it impossible for them to even admit that there are explanations for things that seem impossible for them.
That these people still can claim to value honesty... is almost beyond me.
So I put more value on your life than you put on my life.
Even though I recognize this as true, I still value your life because I'm more empathetic than you are.
How can empathy possibly evolve from a kill or be killed evolutionary system?
This is one of those very difficult questions to answer unless you appeal to a higher meaning than just ourselves.
Its seems impossible for empathy to evolve from a kill or be killed evolutionary system. You can't explain empathy using evolution, yet empathy exists in humans.
That may be.
The only explanation we have yet to discover is why we exist in the first place. Still a work in progress...
We know why the Earth was created the way it was. Science tells us.I'd suggest studying seismology to determine the objective truth behind why earthquakes happen. From my limited knowledge of seismology, earthquakes are caused my the movement of tectonic plates covering the earth. Tectonic plates move because the earths core is hot and causes the movement. We could go on and on determining the cause behind why the earth's core is hot and so on until we get to the cause of why the universe exists and at that point we realize we cannot determine an objective truth because if the universe has a cause then that cause would not be physical because if it was physical then it would be of the universe and I don't think is reasonable to determine that the universe caused itself.
If you want the truth to why death causes pain and sorrow, then I have a completely separate answer for you which I've clearly stated already.
Empathy is between close, similar people, animals, etc. It has no place in evolution, otherwise animals wouldn't kill other animals and natural selection wouldn't progress.Its seems impossible for empathy to evolve from a kill or be killed evolutionary system. You can't explain empathy using evolution, yet empathy exists in humans.
I'd suggest studying seismology to determine the objective truth behind why earthquakes happen. From my limited knowledge of seismology, earthquakes are caused my the movement of tectonic plates covering the earth. Tectonic plates move because the earths core is hot and causes the movement. We could go on and on determining the cause behind why the earth's core is hot and so on until we get to the cause of why the universe exists and at that point we realize we cannot determine an objective truth because if the universe has a cause then that cause would not be physical because if it was physical then it would be of the universe and I don't think is reasonable to determine that the universe caused itself.
If you want the truth to why death causes pain and sorrow, then I have a completely separate answer for you which I've clearly stated already.
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