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ATHEISTS: What is the meaning of existence?
- Thread starter crystalonyx
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The meaning of 'existence' to me, is just to enjoy life, be a good citizen and show love to my friends and family.
Probably the same as any good christian really. It's just that I refuse to surrender my mind and critical faculties to a 'supernatural' belief. To paraphrase Hitchens, "what can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence".
In my opinion human decency precedes religion.
I don't need moral guidance from a series anonymously-written, non eyewitness, contradictory texts which have been re-hashed and reinterpreted over the centuries!
Probably the same as any good christian really. It's just that I refuse to surrender my mind and critical faculties to a 'supernatural' belief. To paraphrase Hitchens, "what can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence".
In my opinion human decency precedes religion.
I don't need moral guidance from a series anonymously-written, non eyewitness, contradictory texts which have been re-hashed and reinterpreted over the centuries!
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
doppelgänger;1043235 said:
You cannot choke on your tongue* nor is it primarily responsible for sleep apnea with some exception towards cases involving an abnormally enlarged tongue. Typically, Its due to collapsible tissue found inside the throat, and is called Obstructive sleep apnea.
Central sleep apnea or Cheyne-Stokes resperation is a systemic problem originating from the brain's control center that happens to be imbalenced causing you to stop breathing intermittently. You dont typically wake up during this, although breathing noteably increases afterward to increase the oxygen supply.
I'm not a medical professional myself, yet I happen to work at a hospital.
*Its a medical myth. Ask your doctor.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
There is no meaning to existence, at least an intrinsic one
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The only meaning is what you make of it.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure it's not to ponder semantics.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
And that's relative
Is that a problem?
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
lol xd
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Nope, just saying
The Neo Nerd
Well-Known Member
Considering the sheer impersonality and indifference existence shows us, then i would have to say the base meaning of existence is nothing or better yet non-existence.
Meaning is an emergent property of consciousness which means that we ourselves give our life meaning.
The meaning i give to life is to leave it a better place than when i entered it.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Yeah, but you have it easy in that regard - you live in Australia.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yeppers.
The Neo Nerd
Well-Known Member
Agreed.
But since it's so great i'll have to work even harder to even make a difference.
Tiberius
Well-Known Member
Why do you think life has some meaning ascribed to it?
The purpose for our existence is whatever we make it.
Everything you can think of and more
cablescavenger
Well-Known Member
Existence would be excellent in itself, but the fact that we comprehend it, appreciate it and understand just how fortunate we are to experience it is truly awe inspiring.