You do of course believe, even if only subliminally - in that quite naturally like most people you probably never consciously think about it - th — Robert Lockhart
you can validly reconcile yourself with the prospect of your mentality. — Robert Lockhart
I am aware, that were I personally to find myself engulfed in a sufficiently terrible predicament then, (...) I would nonetheless cry out to God to save me with a desperateness I presently cannot vicariously suspect. If, no matter your convictions, you personally think otherwise of yourself then I would say you are mistaken. — Robert Lockhart
It is of course no more the ultimate aim of atheism to disprove the existence of God than it is of theism to prove same but instead the ultimate aim of each philosophy surely is to recommend a solution to the human predicament – inasmuch as each necessarily is constrained by the preconception that a solution is possible – through advocating for a means of reconciliation with our mortality. — Robert Lockhart
As to reconciliation to mortality, what, exactly, is there to reconcile? — tim wood
That last question of yours has all the explicitness of a crossword clue! :) — Robert Lockhart
Reconciliation with mortality would mean perceiving it, in the context of understanding everything that it represents, as nonetheless representing a meaningful as opposed to merely an accidental or logically inevitable conclusion of life. — Robert Lockhart
It is evident that since neither 'flat earth' nor 'no flat earth' can be shown for the sure satisfaction of all, the positions of both flat earth and no flat earth are indefensible and are thus intellectually dishonest as surety claims, leaving all to have to be truly agnostic, with leanings either way based but on observatonal probability. — PoeticUniverse
It is akin to saying that those who do not believe in the tooth fairy have the aim of disproving the existence of a tooth fairy... rejection of a belief does not infer or confer the responsibility, goal or even desire to disprove said belief. — Soap Needswater
God does not exist. Religion is nonsense. We all know it. Get over it. — Swan
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