living with them is very depressing
Most people can’t imagine a life without god
Whats wrong if you accept the brutal fact and live. Instead of still believing in that messy myth created by dumb ancestors.
god,religion, philosophy are all rusty and end of life(EOL).
Technology is going to rule next 10 generations. Our generation is at early transformation stage- We must form a new set of rules for better human life on earth
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i agree, except for the “philosophy is EOL” part.
However… the current prevalence of religion is all the proof we need, to understand that humans in general are still quite primitive, and not nearly as evolved and technologically advanced as the hipster post-modernists and their fancy toys, would have you believe.
There is a false image of modernism still being perpetuated by certain groups… but make no mistake: most of the world is still very primitive.
Those things you claim are “EOL,” are still very much in use, and supported/endorsed by “the establishment.” They are some of the most important tools of social engineering; of course they’re not going to just EOL them, until they have a better solution in place. Kinda like M$ hasn’t “EOL’d” XP just quite yet, even with 3* successors. They’re rumored to be already beginning development on W9. lol… “version hell” ftw.
The only question that philosophy must answer ” Why should I live”.
it is failed to answer it. Therefore it is dead. Enough amount of ink wasted on philosophy.
We must find a new word( new root) which try to answer the question that philosophy actually failed to answer.
Also, the word philosophy sounds very old.
I’ll one-up you. I believe all sentient life is foolish. So you suggest we replace god with some computers? Hm.. can’t say I see the difference, except in that technology is a physical / conceptual thing. But hey, Churches have crosses and iconography.
sometimes the answer found by the question, reveals that the question was wrong.
The question “why should i live?” launches from the premise that a “why” exists, or even can exist. Let’s not assume there must be a “why.”
So let’s make an adjustment: “why should i wonder why i should live?”
Also: philosophy applies to much more than one single question… and lots of people cling desperately to their theistic beliefs… so, these things are not “EOL,” since more theists are still being produced by the systems designed to produce believers.
We non-believers are anomalous; we did not turn out as the system intended.
When I was a kid, I used to get so pissed off at my parents because they’d give me these rules to follow that didn’t make sense to me. I’d ask them to explain the reason for the rule – why shouldn’t I stick my tongue in the fan? Why can’t I shove knives in the electric socket? But what if the stranger has a three muskateers bar??? Should I really just not take it from him? I love those things. Their response was always, “Because we said so.”
God damnit, if I didn’t learn my lessons the hard way. I think Adam in Dante’s Inferno can relate.
But further, I think atheism and agnosticism are the most obvious and reasonable products of the theistic machinery within society. That kid who got pissed at his parents for saying, “Because I said so,” just got older and learned more stuff.
lol… when i would ask “why?” i would be answered with “because.” <– note the period, not followed by explanation. This taught me to verbalize an actual question… and when my question was answered with the most evasive possible answer, and danced around with literalness tricks… i learned to become unavoidably precise; if i ask /exactly/ the right question that can /only/ mean what i actually mean… it forces you to either answer me acceptably, or yield to whatever assumption i will substitute in the absence of an appropriate response.
And you're right: teaching kids "because i said so," while at first seeming so "sheltering" and "authoritative," actually teaches those with the capacity to do so, to learn their own lessons "the hard way," despite being "told so." But it also teaches that kid that the parents are incompetent, and not to trust anything they say… either they DON'T KNOW the answer, or they're HIDING SOMETHING from you. If the "authority" either doesn't know the truth, or refuses to explain it to you… then they are not to be relied upon for anything important. My parents (well, my mom and step-dad) taught me that because they were incompetent, not because they were just-so-cunning that they reverse-psyched me into becoming wise. They actually thought i was supposed to just comply because they "said so." What a load of crap! I'm not going to "just comply" with someone who either can't, or won't, answer my question! 😉
I think in a majority of cases, parents answer that way because they assume their kids aren’t valid people, and so wasting a time answering questions that seem obvious to them would be mostly pointless. Maybe they have a really good reason to tell you not to shove a knife in the fireplace, but just saying don’t do it isn’t enough of the kid’s inquisitive and actually wants to know what the rule is meant to prevent from happening. My conclusion from all this is that many parents are really stupid. As such, it follows that religion is also really stupid – even if some parts of it exist for good reasons.
Knife in the fireplace? Holy fuck, more coffee please. I meant knife in the electric socket.
God is real, i promise you thought. The difference is he just uses us as little play things. The problem is for people like me he forgets to hit the delete key after he has had his fun with me.