What is the meaning of life for an atheist?
Hello, dear Ladies and Gentlemen!Many people do not think about the meaning of life. Others attach great importance to this issue. It happens that a person who has not found an answer to this question, gets drunk or takes his own life.But in what does everyone find the meaning of existence for themselves? Some try to build a paradise on earth and devote their lives to it. Others try to solve some specific tasks (to earn money, put their children on their feet, pass on their inheritance, and, as they say, live as long as you live).Believers associate the meaning of life with God, with the attainment of Truth and eternal bliss. And how do atheists solve the problem for themselves? What do they live for? From the point of view of believers, life without God is meaningless. Death is the end of everything, and what are all the efforts on this earth worth if, as Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov said, then only a burdock grows on the grave? Better, my father went on, to go straight to the coffin. But atheists live! So, they are afraid of something, Father Dmitry concluded.I understand that an atheist has nothing to do with the priest's words. But still, how can you say for yourself why you live, if there is only one life, then death-and that's it, the end?Thank you all for participating in the discussion.
Surprisingly, but a cruel truth.A Christian, like an Atheist, has only one God! Only with different tasks.Atheists come to the entrance hall of God, the Archangel says, my dear ones, he himself goes to the study, so they say there are Atheists there anyway…what to do.Lord with a smile…Tell them I'm Not here!!!
The meaning of life has been pondered for thousands of years, and may also be the focus of all philosophy. It is difficult to convey the answer in a few short paragraphs; in fact, there may not be a single answer. So this is at least a very short guide to rationalizing the question and the various answers to it.
Rationalism tells us that, in all likelihood, what awaits us after death is very much like what we experienced before birth: a complete lack of any awareness. No one alive today knew about this in the 16th century, just as no one alive today will know in the 31st century (ignoring any such suggestions that “immortality” is so close that the first immortal has already been born). This is a pretty scary thought for most people, as most people enjoy being alive and aware, and death sucks.. If you are going to die, it helps to focus on what we want to achieve now. Assuming that your current awareness is all you will experience, and that it is far from permanent, it will make it more special and make every second something to enjoy and cherish. This gives people more flexibility and the potential to discover their own meaning of why they are here, or even completely ignore the question, considering it inappropriate or just the wrong question. On the other hand, the afterlife actively reduces the value we attach to life as we see it now (since attention is focused on following religious instructions on how to achieve a positive afterlife and avoid a negative one), despite how comforting this is. to believe that consciousness can transcend the temporal nature of life.
Existentialists Believe that life has the meaning that you put into it. One of the great freedoms of an atheist is the ability to decide what is important for you to get out of life, and not to impose it on you with the weight of history and traditions. Some people see success as the best person they can be within the limits set for them by society, while others will prefer to succeed beyond those boundaries. Other philosophies find inherent meaning in a life filled with good deeds. Of course, what exactly constitutes a “good job” varies by philosophy, but most of them basically agree that living a good life is about doing the best you can with what you have. Some things seem more meaningful than others,
If it is important for you to live in some semblance after death, you have several practical options. Children are the most direct way to provide some continuation of both your physical qualities and your thought processes. Just make sure that the kids behave decently! Becoming an organ donor can help many other people extend or improve their lives as a direct result of your actions. Performing a new feat or creating a new invention or idea is a great way to make sure that something from you survives after death and benefits the future. Of course, committing great misdeeds is likely to cause you to be remembered in future generations, but evil deeds are usually contrary to the principles of fulfilling your personal duties and improving the world.
If you can look back on your life in your old age and identify only a few regrets, then you probably lived your life in the best possible way. Alternatively, you might come to the conclusion – or at least suspect – that life doesn't matter, that its meaning is beyond human knowledge, or that whatever meaning it has is not very important. Any of these probable possibilities.
You can't even imagine the interesting and eventful life of atheists. And there is no need to be afraid that you will inadvertently sin. You don't need to justify yourself to some mythical creature for your actions,and you don't need to listen to the moralizing of some priest whose body thickness and width exceed the height.
You might as well ask believers – if they have an afterlife, why are they suffering here? Samovypililis would be normal. And the atheist knows about the end after life and captures every moment of life😎
From the point of view of believers, life without God is meaningless – the key here is “from the point of view”. It doesn't matter whose POINT of view it is, if the viewer can't imagine life outside of their swamp. You probably WON'T UNDERSTAND an atheist. But I'll try.
Don't you see the deepest selfishness in seeking ETERNAL BLISS? (There is no need and it is impossible to share bliss with SOMEONE: if anyone gives it, it is God, who believes not in deeds.) The atheist is at least more honest with himself: life is finite, and we must make the most of it. A separate question is WHAT is included in this maximum. Catch the moonlight in the picture? Rid humanity of cancer? Adopt and raise ten children as human beings? Yes, even if you climb Mount Everest, testing yourself – why not?
Suppose the universe has a creator (an atheist is not forbidden to think experiments), and life is a “text”, a creation. Who is the “reader” other than the author himself? It is from this position – external to the work – that one can speak of its “meaning”. And even if the character has a “meaning of life” – it does not coincide with the author's.
Well, we note that the question of the meaning of life is raised EXCLUSIVELY by a person suffering. From “why do I work three jobs – so that the children live better” (and they will not live better, as well as requests and discontent grow with prosperity) to “why do I put up with a concentration camp” – “because someday I will tell the whole truth”. Well, the believer suffers, apparently, from the fact that he is alive, and not in eternal bliss 😉
Atheism and superstition are all sick mind games. They will continue to fight until it dawns on them that both are unimportant. It is important that a person is in his essence: an animal that is dominated only by instincts, or it is a rational being. A person is not a person, a person is formed in the course of his life. The human soul is man himself. She comes to this world, learns something, and goes back.
The same as all normal people – to benefit human society. Because without society, there is no human being. Mowgli is only in fairy tales.
There are no absolute atheists, nor are there any absolute believers. In addition, a person is not born with a particular worldview. He gets it. And in the course of life, it can change. What can be the meaning of life for a newborn? Maybe the father and mother put some meaning into this, but the newborn himself does not ask exactly this question. He doesn't really separate himself from the world, either. It has no idea of itself as a subject embedded in objective reality. He and his world are inseparable. A single whole. This is how not only babies, but also most animals feel about themselves. And this was almost always the case, before the advent of Homo sapiens with his super abstract thinking. And so he gave rise to this super-duper abstract question “Why the hell is all this necessary? What's the point of all this?”. If we consider this question not in isolation from the entire prehistory of the development of life, but as a natural stage of evolution, then everything is more or less clear. The question of the meaning of life did not arise out of nowhere. At first there were questions – how to sharpen a stone, how to catch a fish, how to start a fire. The question of the meaning of all this appeared only after solving other pressing issues.
This is one approach. And there are others. Here we have already answered above that there are “vulgar materialists” with their fruitless atheism, and apparently non-vulgar believers who know well what the meaning of life is.
It can be absent – life doesn't have to have meaning. But you can also take standard ideas: life for the sake of life, life for the sake of the future, life for the sake of posterity, life for the sake of universal happiness, life for the sake of knowledge, even life for yourself and your desires. The meaning of life is a free thing, and atheism gives you complete freedom to define it. It is more correct to say, not even atheism, but the lack of final commitment of one's life to a particular religion.
The “straight to the grave” attitude is not so stupid, if you set aside your instinctive prejudices. My opinion is that if there is no God, then this is an absolute victory for nihilism and there is nothing more to discuss. The fact is that helping others also does not make sense for the reason that they will also die, return to the state in which they were before birth. Is it really scary? No. For many, it is even better than the state of being. People who do not believe in God have the same love of life as believers. Live because they said you should live. Most of the answers under this question boil down to just that. But if the universe has no Creator, then there can be no meaning in it. In this case, the universe is the result of a chaotic chain of chaotic events, and most likely as perishable as life.
For the fact that a person is weak, he can't help himself, only play on his nerves. A believer, looking for support, grasping at straws, hoping for no one but God! The Kingdom of Heaven is not for everyone! But the atheist doesn't even want to know, so let him! When, even in a dream, I saw it, I would stop being stupid, but….
The meaning of life for an atheist is the same as for any believer. Why? Initially, God created man with the prospect of living on earth forever in excellent conditions. However, what happened at the dawn of humanity explains why today people are fighting, getting sick, getting old and dying. As if something went wrong initially. But God has not forgotten why He created the earth and people. However, because neither atheists nor most believers know why God allows people to suffer, some do not believe in him, while others believe in everything that people teach them. That is why the faith of many people contradicts each other. Therefore, the true meaning of life is hidden from most people, and everyone finds it in something temporary, (atheism), while others are eternal, but far-fetched, making any of their business meaningless. But such a time was predicted:
“For the time will come when they will not receive sound teaching, but will choose teachers according to their own whims, who will flatter their ears; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn to fables” (2 Timothy 4: 3,4).
The meaning of any person's life is the continuation of a kind. Whether you are a believer (be fruitful and multiply) or an atheist. The whole point of our existence is to give a worthy continuation of ourselves. There is simply no other meaning.
If a person could not raise a worthy descendant, then he has lived his life in vain on all sides. And this applies to all its aspects: no continuation – no washout.
Separately, it should be said about the immortal creations of geniuses who have passed through the centuries. The people who created them could not have imagined that their works would survive many generations. And when they passed away, they didn't really see the meaning of their existence if they didn't have children…
Thus, the meaning of life of any living being, including humans, is to give a worthy continuation of its kind. There are no other meanings and cannot be.
The meaning of life for an atheist is no different from a believer, Only an atheist does not wait for bad deeds to be threatened with a finger from heaven and put in a corner and threatened that they will not be allowed into paradise,” A thinking atheist living according to conscience does not understand how close he is to God, Because he does good without expecting a reward, Unlike believing hypocrites ” (G, X, Anderson)
There is no meaning to life. The Romantics came up with this idea during a certain period of cultural development. What's the point of electricity? Does interference make sense? Does the neutralization reaction make sense? Life is the same physical process (all biology and all chemistry is reduced to physics, as we know). Indifferent to us.
I wasn't there for billions of years before I was born, and I won't be there for billions of years after. This short period of time between birth and death is all I have. If you wait for eternal life in Christ's bosom, then in comparison with such a prospect, all this is very much devalued, of course. “Only burdock will grow” – that's right. Just think, some 60-80 years… pfft. And this is an unbearable experience – then really, it's better to go straight to the loop. What else did Smirnov say? A consistent atheist should commit suicide? Well, if you accept eternal life as the truth – then of course. If we cling to this possibility of life after death, then earthly life becomes a real suffering, the only justification for which is to accept it as a kind of “preparation” for eternal life. What is the value of constant suffering? Negative, of course.
But think about how atheists see it all. Just try it on yourself… If you give up this imaginary “prize” for suffering, from the unverifiable idea of life after death, then this only earthly life, as an asset entrusted to you, immediately increases greatly in value! The value of this earthly life is growing, you know? From minus-to ogogo what a plus! I'm alive! I'm breathing! I can do all sorts of cool things!
How to fill it – this segment – with what meanings, I decide only myself, as well as each person. The meaning can be one, large, or many different meanings. Meanings can change over the years, and this is normal. In terms of meaning, you can be disappointed, or you can strengthen. Meaning is neither a dogma nor an obligation , but practice shows that it is better if meaning is still present in life.
Filling life with meaning (or meanings) is a certain job, quite difficult I must say. It is connected with self-knowledge, with awareness of your desires and needs, with establishing a dialogue with yourself. But you can not do this work, do not look for your own meanings, but take them from other people – from books, from religions, from opinion leaders. This is easier – there are a wide variety of options in modern culture, one is more attractive than the other.
The real modesty is to recognize finiteness (and by and large transience) your own life and take responsibility for your decisions on yourself. Of course, eternal life under the care of an omnipotent being is a much more attractive idea, which makes the concept that everything will end with death pale like a speck of dust in front of the galaxy.
But it is necessary to recognize this idea as a myth, an invention, to reduce your requirements from the ever-galactic to the level of a fleeting speck of dust – to the level at which we actually exist-as this very speck of dust takes on many facets, connections, interesting outlines. It turns out that a nondescript speck of dust consists of many interconnected parts, each of which also consists of something. Suddenly it turns out that you can do a lot of interesting things with it!
Then the meanings that fill the speck of dust also gain value in the eyes of the living.
Much has already been said about the meaning of life, and much more will be said. I believe that we were lucky to be born in an era where people don't whip us and burn us at the stake for having “the wrong meaning of life.”
Such cases. We have one life, and it is finite – fill it with your own meanings and do not be afraid to experiment with them. Then you will live a full life – and it will not be so scary to die:)
Yes, then death and the end. Unfortunately, the end is also for believers. To believe in God does not mean that God really exists.
The point is that it is necessary to comply with the laws of nature. It's not just about procreation. I wrote my vision of the Meaning of life. Here I put a short fragment.
Absolutely everyone mixes the concepts of the PURPOSE of life and the MEANING of life.
The purpose of life is HOW to live life. And the point is to leave descendants with better living conditions than their own. We are ruining life on the planet, and each generation only makes the situation worse. Look at the earth from space, at the ulcers of human activity. I just want to yell-PEOPLE COME TO YOUR SENSES !!! Even for example, what will happen by 2100? After five generations…..
It is necessary to restore the balance of consumption and the ability of nature to restore the destroyed- “Eaten”. But NO ONE wants to do that. Give EVERYONE a palace, yacht-ship, plane, foreign food….. And we are more than six billion! We are still holding on at the expense of the poor and the hungry… and others.
I'm an atheist. I understand that I have only one life, and my goal is to live it as best and happiest as possible. See as many countries as possible, taste as many exotic dishes as possible, experience as many positive emotions as possible, and so on. And after that, I agree to burdock on the grave ( although it will not be, but that's another story):)
I envy the faithful–no need to think too much about something- – – there was a question–the priest will explain–or I looked in the Bible –there is an answer to everything–what is lightning-thunder–electricity? but no, this is Perun showing his displeasure-it's simple
There is such a thing as evolution. And one of the factors of evolution is natural selection. This selection culls those who do not want to live or do not want to live very much. And who wants it very much, leaves it. So here we are. We just live, and we don't need any excuses, any legal grounds and technical justifications in order to live.
Well, many people are afraid of death, but the meaning of an atheist's life is not that he is afraid to die. For some, the most important thing is career, for some-family, for the third-fleeting pleasures (hedonist philosophy), and so on.
A person, as a biological unit, is mortal and his life span is not so long. But by its very nature, it is a rational and social being, thanks to which each person has the highest creative abilities that allow him to step beyond the limits of his biological life and survive in society. Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, lived many centuries ago, but their contribution to the development of mankind is still alive today.
It turns out that in order for a person's life to have meaning, he needs to have time to do something in the time allotted to him that contributes to the maintenance of the existence of human society and its development. It can be:
– the birth of children and the transfer of their own cultural and value matrix to them by upbringing;
– production of material goods;
– formation of valuable ideas.
This is actually the meaning of any person's life, regardless of whether he is a believer or an atheist. Without it, human life does not rise too much above the life of other animals, the surrogate of meaning is consumption, materialism, the pursuit of pleasures that no one will remember when life is over, there will be no trace of it in society – “we live to eat”.
Just like a religious person, I believe that they should live this life in accordance with their own moral principles.
After all, in order to do good deeds, it is not necessary to do it for the sake of someone or for fear of someone's punishment, there are universal principles and universal criteria for “good and evil”.
The presence of faith in a person or the fact that he adheres to the postulates of any religion and its rituals is not a guarantee that this person is good and there is no evil in him and he does not commit evil deeds.
But again, how many people only have opinions.
And a person's identification of himself as an atheist or a believer is also a purely personal opinion of this very person.
“There are no atheists in the trenches” is such a wise expression, that is, at critical moments when there is no hope, almost everyone will believe in higher forces or hope for their intervention. PS. this is not proof that atheism does not exist and everyone has faith, as well as not proof that the fear of death is at the heart of all religions, there are such interpretations on both sides and they seem inappropriate.
You don't have to impose your point of view on others!!! I'm an atheist, I'm not saying that there is no God and all this is bullshit. Respect the choices of others. Your priests fatten up for your money.
The meaning is different for everyone, for some it is material benefits, for others it is spiritual growth.
The finiteness of life does not make it meaningless, everything is subject to the end, from this its value.
Just because of the finiteness of life, you don't want to lose it, you don't want to lose a single moment, because life is one, there will be no more.
And death can also be treated differently, because the concept of life and death is set by people, but for the universe there is no difference. That is, we may not be alive, or maybe everything will be life, but as a concept it will not be in this case. To be more precise, there is no life, we are all sets of atoms, so complex that due to equally complex chemical processes we feel pain, joy, delight.
But the realization of this does not make us a biorobot for our consciousness, we are either too weak to accept it, or from this we simply do not cease to be ourselves.
What I was saying is that after a conditional “death” we do not die, we continue to “live”, merging with the universe.
Yeah… I paid a lot of attention to the question of death when I was asked about the meaning of life.
Strange reasoning… Why do penguins live, or do they believe in the Lord? I doubt. I am more confused by the question of why believers live, if after life they expect something eternal, bright. Well, it's a little difficult for them to die, usually the acceleration of the approach of the fields of paradise does not approve. Well, in this case, why do believers need cars, embroidered clothes, why do priests sell candles in churches? Usually a believer should turn the other cheek, but in our country he runs to court to protect his rights. Why believers are not ascetic, because to wait, to suffer just nothing, and then eternal happy life in paradise and no curses from the grandmother, who did not have enough money for a candle in the temple. In my opinion, any believer should use all available biblical methods to try to bring his demise closer in order to speed up the meeting with his creator and get as far away from the world of consumerism as possible.
The meaning of an atheist's life is to die, giving his species a chance to survive. Nature, evolution, does not care about a particular person . They care about a particular species and its ability to adapt to changing conditions, sacrificing individuals for the survival of the species. From the point of view of evolution, there is no difference between a dead man and a dead donkey. Both, food for scavengers, and biofertilizer for plants.
An atheist, also known as a human being, is just as much a living being as any animal, plant, or insect on the planet Earth. What is the meaning of life for a dandelion? A mosquito? An elephant? Our only nuance is that we are aware of life, life and ourselves in it. And there is no meaning as such, but everyone, in order to live more happily, finds it. We will not see the future, we can only roughly imagine to what point in history we will be able to live. But we see the present and it can and should be known. Nature, other people, the world around us, it's so fucking interesting! Physics, biology, astronomy, oceanology, chemistry, psychology and all its fields. Here is the meaning, as an example, to live, learn as much as possible and each time admire what you learn.
And in general, most atheists don't look for this meaning, they just live and enjoy themselves to the best of their abilities. You don't need to think about God and how to please him in order not to go to hell, there are many other things worthy of attention and it is on them that you stop looking for this meaning, because you yourself are him.
Your philosophical topics are called “Woe from wit”!!! The biggest perverts (not sexually) just the same philosophers, pervert everything and turn it upside down. Don't mess with your brains, such philosophers make people commit suicide, don't mess with people's brains!!!
God is Love. This is also not a scientific concept, not subject to scientific proof, invisible, not felt by everyone, denied or distorted by many to the level of “random reaction of certain hormones” , etc., and from the point of view of earthly laws, its meaning (especially sacrifice) does not fit into the rational theories of “struggle for a place in the sun”, “the strongest survives”, etc. But the most curious thing is that most atheists who deny the existence of God are not strangers to this great human feeling, and where true love arises (in its broadest sense), atheism ends a priori. And even if such a person insists on his words, his actions will indicate the opposite.
As an Orthodox Christian, my attitude towards atheists is quite tolerant, unlike blasphemers. They are completely different people. The latter are those who are very difficult to define otherwise than as “raging”, sometimes just from the mention of the Church. Moreover, what annoys them so much at the sight of the Cross or the image of the Savior, they can not clearly explain, except for an even greater flow of profanity. Ordinary atheists, on the other hand, are people with their own particular worldview, who are not strangers to the basic Christian positions in the moral, moral and humanistic understanding, and most of them do not deny the possible existence of a “Higher Mind”, but whose knowledge of the world is based primarily on scientific evidence. Unlike blasphemers, these are people in search, including the meaning of life.
And the meaning of life can only be found in love – again, in its broadest and most comprehensive understanding: for people, for nature, for the motherland, for business, for knowledge. And from God, this feeling or something that requires initial evidence-based confirmation – everyone decides for himself “as far as he can accommodate”.
everyone has their own experience. It is good that all of us in Russia or the world do not have one common meaning of life. And that's good! And it is better not to think about it and enjoy every day! I also used to search for the meaning of life. It's good that I didn't find it.
Well you need to start with whether there is any meaning to life at all! And whether you need to search for it. that's probably not the point. I think an atheist and a non-atheist have the same problems and joys in life. And so and so I want a family, a wife, children, my house.
About burdock on the grave – this is from Turgenev, actually. Father Dmitry could at best quote it. And it is very stupid to try to bring all atheists under one comb. Atheism itself, apart from denying the existence of God, means nothing. Usually, atheism is an application to some other worldview that claims to be “positive.” Here are some types of atheists that the author of the answer you found best listed, but this is not a complete list either. The same father Dmitry, judging by his various statements, made a caricature of atheists. Google “Dmitry Smirnov circus bears” – I am, if anything, the same “circus bear” who, being an unbeliever, has been living with one wife for 15 years, contrary to the ideas from Dmitry's father's head. However, I don't consider myself a convinced atheist, I'm an agnostic anymore.
Personally, I tell myself that the meaning of life is how to live the most intense and pleasant life for yourself. Learn and try the most. I also believe in an afterlife, but not in the form of heaven and hell.
An atheist does not accept questionable truths, and the search for meaning is not connected with the attitudes of pastors. Sad is the fate of the “believers”. They are afraid of posthumous torments, they try to please the priest, God, they are at a loss, they hate other people and sane people, they run to visit and kiss everyone. But the life of believers is spent in society and they will never be righteous. Fear is not a way to make yourself spiritual. Eternal punishment awaits all.
The meaning of an individual's life is an individual problem, depending on its properties. The meaning of community life follows from the definition: “Life is the existence of beings (organisms) capable of reproducing their own kind”, or in modern language: Viable (healthy, educated) offspring in life-friendly (comfortable, eco-friendly) conditions. To do this, everyone can strain themselves according to their inclinations and abilities.
The meaning of an individual's life is an individual problem, depending on its properties. The meaning of community life follows from the definition: “Life is the existence of beings (organisms) capable of reproducing their own kind”, or in modern language: Viable (healthy, educated) offspring in life-friendly (comfortable, eco-friendly) conditions. To do this, everyone can strain themselves according to their inclinations and abilities.
The most interesting thing is that atheists are children who for some reason believe that they do not have a Father. No one made them think that way. They decided so themselves. But they can also change their point of view voluntarily. If a person recognizes the Creator as the Father, he will have the opportunity to acquire accurate knowledge; those who do not take God into account often draw incorrect conclusions from their observations. People who receive this exact knowledge have learned from the Bible what the meaning of human life is. It says,” You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for You created all things, and all things exist and were created according to Your will.” God created people. People became atheists themselves, of their own free will. Each person makes their own choice.
The most relevant question! I consider myself an atheist believer: I believe in the Good (Humanity, Love, Conscience, Purity, Good Sphere, Happiness, etc., etc.). I consider my main task to be the constant creation of my own “Teaching of Good” and compliance with it. https://proza.ru/avtor/dobrod – “Dobrouchenie”, etc. I'll try to answer your questions.
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I'm an atheist. The most real and convinced. Not only do I not believe in gods, but I know for a fact that there are no gods. I believe in science and in proven facts. So I live to have fun and to leave some trace in history and in the memory of other people. I want my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to be proud of me and pass down stories about me from generation to generation. That's the whole point. And I'll always have time to go to my coffin. Not a single one has arrived there yet. By the way, I'm not going to rot in my grave. I gave instructions to my wife that I should be cremated and scattered over the sea when I died. I don't want a grave. It is not necessary for me, nor for my descendants, to go and take care of her. Something like that.
Everyone has their own faith. It's personal. There's nothing to talk about at all. Especially to impose.
Miracles do exist. The spirit exists. This has nothing to do with the fictional god. There is no God. Religions have invented a convenient god for them. A believer, why? Because semi-literate stupid and lost. Wants an eternal high like a drug addict? Is he afraid of death, so he prays? The truth? You're kidding! Go to school math at least learn incompetent! Here are the exact questions. You can believe in anything, reassure yourself. This will not add sobriety and clarity. But fanaticism and unhealthy aggression will add as much as + 1000%. Priests receive money and attention and believe that they are right. Even if they are mistaken. All religions are examples of imposed delusions. The biblical devil is hidden in this – all scammers are afraid that they will be discovered.
The atheist feels that there is a catch in religions, so he fights. Usually this is a sober-minded person, reasonable. Well-read. But usually he doesn't know himself. So he doesn't know for sure. But at least not aggressive. Fiercely dislikes fanatics. And it has EVERY reason to!
A Man of Knowledge. There are still very few of them. This is someone who spends his whole life trying to learn about himself. He puts his psyche and life on the line in an attempt to look beyond the horizon. Know yourself – you will know the universe! Not all of them survive. Someone is going crazy. But those who make their way are the first-time heroes! These are the people of knowledge that both atheists and believers should respect and fear in the good sense of the word. Because such people will easily tell you how everything really works. Not as they believe or deny. Not how they like it. But just as they saw it. Knowledge does not require faith. Here you can talk about the meaning of life with such people. They can share a lot of things. One discovery of the energy body – our double-is worth a lot. There is no need to believe or deny. Fly away! Explore! Check it out for yourself! Who's stopping you? Stop scratching your tongues. I say this to myself 😉
The Era of Knowledge is Coming! So let's be worthy!
Counter question. And what is the meaning of a believer's life ? In the service of God? But WHAT is God, or WHO is he ? The meaning of an atheist's life is in life, the meaning of a believer's life is in serving God. I just want to live without worrying about my faith.
You can put it briefly-to make the world around you better for yourself and for everyone who lives in it. Starting with your loved ones; but not only for them, but for all people and inhabitants of this world.
In general, the value of love for one's neighbor, which for some reason was recorded in Christian books , is universal. It's just that we atheists are intelligent enough to accept and share the idea of loving one's neighbor without attracting unnecessary (and possibly harmful) ideas about God.
Human development should lead to the fact that consciousness will prevail and people will behave humanly by themselves, without threats from the grandfather with a beard on a cloud.
I am a materialist (and then cling-atheist, agnostic…)
On a global scale, there is no meaning to life. Eventually, the life of the planet will end. The law of nature: there are conditions – there is life. The law of life is a struggle for life. (otherwise, the type of “living creatures” will be cut off – they will be eaten)
Humans are no exception, but now this struggle is going on “by inertia”, as it is inherent in the genes of who has more, who has less. Man is an insatiable being, and all MEANING turns into the PURPOSE of life. How to live comfortably without straining.
Since the issue of ECOLOGY is now acute, it SHOULD make sense for HUMANITY to preserve the balance of nature in consumption and the ability of nature to restore what has been destroyed.
But the laws of BUSINESS will not allow this until ” the roast rooster bites.”
I don't know if I'm an atheist or not, but as for life, I think it's just a way of organizing energy and matter, which has become just that
in the process of evolution under the influence of the laws of nature. Evolution is a blind process with no definite purpose; its byproduct is our current way of life and the entire civilization as a whole. The point is to survive by climbing, learning, building, and enjoying the release of dopamine, endorphins, and other pleasures. If you want, you can become a businessman/artist/parent – all this can help you live the rest of your life happier, or vice versa, which is why you need to skillfully analyze information. Live as you want, but don't interfere with others. After death, there will be no life, it will be about the same as it was before birth-the absence of anything, the pushta worldview exists due to the complex and interesting brain chemistry that will not flow after kaput. On the other hand, you can bypass the instinct of self – preservation and finish right away, but this is not given to everyone-for example, I managed to get some joys in life, because of the anticipation of repeating these feelings, I am not ready to “become a hero”, and I do not advise anyone.
Atheism makes a person more responsible. The atheist does not rely on the principle of “the Lord will weigh and understand.” People can judge a fool who builds his own happiness at the expense of the misery of others. People can appreciate the merits of a fool who, at the expense of his misfortune, made the lives of others a little better.
Those who can no longer look at the ground are looking up at the sky. Farsightedness, alas, has a biological explanation.
Speaking of atheism, people usually talk about it under the guise of religious editing, which is usually a lie, and atheists themselves are not allowed to talk.
And the contradiction between atheism and religiosity is not whether there is a God or not, dialectically it does not matter, but whether the world is knowable or not.
– From the point of view of religion, it is not knowable – it is impossible to be higher than God and everything is determined by him. You can say that religions have changed, but this is a lie, no one has changed the paradigm – you are a servant of God and that's all, and do not confuse tourism (PR) and a place of residence (a system of personal suppression). Try asking the question: “Who is God's father and mother…»
A secular society can also be religious in its paradigm.
– Atheism defends the comprehensive knowability of the World and the limitlessness of possibilities – you can do everything here, but “at your own expense”, that is, under personal responsibility to yourself and you do not owe anything to any gods (presidents).
In atheism, your spirit, soul, and entire personality are immortal and this is yours and only yours, the gods and any masters have no rights to this, although religion (and in secular execution) insists on the opposite.
Only created things make sense.
Atheists have no creator, so they are not created, so their lives are meaningless. Their lives don't make any more sense than any bug's.
But we are friends with logic, and we understand that their lives have meaning.
The meaning of life is the same for all of us. The meaning of the life of all people is to bring the development of human civilization to a higher level of quality on the way to the return of civilization, first human, then more highly developed to its former prosperity and power.
Let's go back to the meaning of life for believers, Who do we mean when we talk about believers?Who believes in Jesus who believes in Magomed ,What to do with those who believe in Sabaoth, Jehovah, Who believes in the seventh day Who believes in a hole in the ceiling, Who prays to a crashed plane (there are such precedents)Who is in Saint Walrus And who is in Tonacasihuatl, And according to the law must respect their views, And there is Adonai, Yahweh,Elohim, There are castrati,(Or were?) Deal with this and then go through the atheists,