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To: WildHorseCrash; P-Marlowe; connectthedots; blue-duncan

I said real meaning.

All atheists have is a localized, personal meaning that really makes no difference whatsoever. They might as well be Genghis Kahn or Jeffrey Dahmer. They're all ending up in the same place, anyway.

No meaning whatsoever.

Be good, be bad...no difference...you all die, melt, burn...and who gives a rat's as$...


705 posted on 01/27/2006 3:20:16 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
I said real meaning.

And in doing so again you impose your subjective definition of "meaning," as if it is somehow objective and self evident. To the atheist, religious folks, especially clergy, have no "real" meaning in their lives, because they waste it by their devotion to an irrational end. You might as well spend all your waking hours repeatedly reciting "Mary had a little lamb" for all the meaning prayer and religion have, and therefore all the meaning a clerical life has.

All atheists have is a localized, personal meaning that really makes no difference whatsoever. They might as well be Genghis Kahn or Jeffrey Dahmer. They're all ending up in the same place, anyway.

LOL! All anyone has is a localized, personal meaning. You may adopt someone else's thoughts as your own, but you, like everyone who's ever lived, is in every way an individual and the meaning you ascribe to life is likewise individual.

And there are many, many reasons for a human being not to want to be a Genghis Kahn or Jeffrey Dahmer other than the fear of a petulant god.

No meaning whatsoever.

Only a different meaning than that which you objectively believe to be worthy. Again, to someone who thinks that faith is an odd and wasteful peculiarity, devoting your life to what they might describe as "invisible friends" and ancient "fairy tales" is not only unworthy of a thinking being, but sadly wasteful, in light of all of the concrete things you might otherwise have done.

Be good, be bad...no difference...you all die, melt, burn...and who gives a rat's as$...

If you think that there is no difference between being good and being bad, absent faith in a religion, you have some serious misunderstanding about what it is to be a human being. (And it is only the theist (or at least several kids of theist) who would fear melting and burning after death. You attributing it to the thoughts of the atheist is rather odd.)

715 posted on 01/27/2006 4:07:11 PM PST by WildHorseCrash
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