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Atheists - how did you come to be?

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
Now honestly if you think about this hard enough, something about the fact that you came to be at all will strike you as bizarre. You know not what occurred before you became, nor do you know how this occurred, why, or ultimately where you are going. However, you can now definitively say that you are, you have become the singularity, your individual telos has found residence in the flesh of an animal. Here you sit, reading this, converting light and color, shape and sound, sending a will to magically type your response. Fingertips and hands, to you alone they are enslaved. Your attention if divided can be trained into submission. You read this and wonder immediately what you can say to ameliorate the sudden existential discord, the fact that the curtain can be pulled on your certainty.

So how did you come to be? Was it karma, the negative and positive energies of your soul swirling in the firmament to reside in a host, was it a slighted god, molding you like craft-work. Was it a random conflux of hidden energies that happened with a probability never to be repeated, a quarky buildup of matter so random it would take a trillion dice? Who's to say you will not immediately occur again when a new pilot is required for some random new brain in the universe. Most likely that is what will happen. Once you land in an immortal coil as opposed to a mortal one, you might not have to keep reincarnating. Though I would argue at this stage that you are clearly constantly incarnating. You can say with certainty that you most likely had a long string of failures to find an immortal host, or if you ever could not age, you must have accidentally died.

The only way you could stop coming to be is if there was never again a seat to be filled. You clearly were not in the very beginning, or most likely were not, but no vacant seat is left open when they are built. If there were a trillion situations where consciousness could reside and over time that was subtracted to nine hundred ninety-nine billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, perhaps one less soul that kept recycling could exist, or their incarnation would be put on hold. Of course no time would pass for the soul once it is waiting. And to finish, I myself am a atheist/agnostic, but I know this cannot be the first time I was, or is it likely it will be the last time I will be.
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
You know not what occurred before you became, nor do you know how this occurred, why, or ultimately where you are going.
You read this and wonder immediately what you can say to ameliorate the sudden existential discord, the fact that the curtain can be pulled on your certainty.

I'm personally impressed by your ability to avoid any cognitive dissonance whilst typing the two sentences listed above in the same post.
Bravo, sir!
:bow:
 

Whiterain

Get me off of this planet
Atheism isn't always wrong in most cases, while many atheist are actually agnostic. Some do not
differentiate the two and don't even know what the hell their talking about...

Atheism doesn't even mean you accept modern scientific beliefs. Other than that I am unable
to go on to explain the idea of atheism - although, I think the Atheist usually doesn't believe in
the idea of a deity based on faith - but not always working to prove it wrong in a positive or
negative sense.

The Atheist is usually a dirt. deceitful, little, condescending person. :O

Atheism would have went in a positive direction had they not been orchestrated in such a rude and offensive way.
 
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Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Atheism isn't always wrong in most cases, while many atheist are actually agnostic. Some do not
differentiate the two and don't even know what the hell their talking about...

Atheism doesn't even mean you accept modern scientific beliefs. Other than that I am unable
to go on to explain the idea of atheism - although, I think the Atheist usually doesn't believe in
the idea of a deity based on faith - but not always working to prove it wrong in a positive or
negative sense.

The Atheist is usually a dirt. deceitful, little, condescending person. :O

Atheism would have went in a positive direction had they not been orchestrated in such a rude and offensive way.

Hate much?
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
Atheism would have went in a positive direction had they not been orchestrated in such a rude and offensive way.

Oh, hey, you added this little gem after my last post.
Who orchestrated atheism? Sounds like a crap job...I reckon it would be akin to herding chickens with ADHD.
 

The Neo Nerd

Well-Known Member
Oh, hey, you added this little gem after my last post.
Who orchestrated atheism? Sounds like a crap job...I reckon it would be akin to herding chickens with ADHD.

Do the chickens have ADHD or the person herding the chickens.

I am uncertain which would be worse. (OMG does my uncertainty mean there is a god?)
 

Bunyip

pro scapegoat
I don't get it.

I came to be when my parents reproduced. I am a homo sapiens, a species of primate. Primates are a subset of the mammals that evolved here on earth.

I know how I came to be, my mum and dad had a child - I know how they came to be and so on back for billions of years.
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
Do the chickens have ADHD or the person herding the chickens.

I am uncertain which would be worse. (OMG does my uncertainty mean there is a god?)

Woah...now THAT is too weird. Honestly, when I posted it, I kinda chuckled and thought 'You could take that as meaning the chickens had ADHD or the person chasing them', but I kinda shrugged it off.

And no, I don't think uncertainty means there is a God. However, I typed 'Swear to God' where 'Honestly' resides in the above paragraph, before changing it. This not only proves there is a God, but also that I am a closet theist.

BTW...the answer to your question is that they ALL have ADHD. I forgot to mention they were all Gen Y, which would have made this clear to you in the original post. Damn Gen Y chickens seem to spend their whole lives on Snapchat...
 

The Neo Nerd

Well-Known Member
Woah...now THAT is too weird. Honestly, when I posted it, I kinda chuckled and thought 'You could take that as meaning the chickens had ADHD or the person chasing them', but I kinda shrugged it off.

Us crazy crazy aussies think alike.

And no, I don't think uncertainty means there is a God. However, I typed 'Swear to God' where 'Honestly' resides in the above paragraph, before changing it. This not only proves there is a God, but also that I am a closet theist.
You know what? You are right. My inability to understand something does not automatically mean another option is correct by default.

If i wanted to posit some idea i would have to present evidence to back it up.

I am sorry for wasting your time.
 
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amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
I don't get it.

I came to be when my parents reproduced. I am a homo sapiens, a species of primate. Primates are a subset of the mammals that evolved here on earth.

I know how I came to be, my mum and dad had a child - I know how they came to be and so on back for billions of years.

Ah, but your consciousness it is quite obvious, resides within you. It is almost a separate organism, a completely transferable phenomenon, for if you were to wake up in the body of another it is merely a changing of your point of view. Do you argue that your awareness merely springs from your brain, that mind and brain are one? Sure, the brain is the hardware that turns the power on, but what comes on is clearly an operator of it.
 
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