@Atheïsts: Don't you ever wish you could believe in a God and afterlife?

[Snake]

Even though the religions are wrong, what they say about atheïsts is true.

We truely are the most depresded people on the planet.
I just sometimes wish I could erase the logic-part from my brain and just believe in a religion and believe eventually everything will be okay.

I can't be the only one around here, am I?

[Empire]

Honestly no, because at that point I'd just be that much more ignorant.

Ignorance is bliss, until it causes an event that creates a lot of self-harm and you're blaming it on your ignorance.

[Snake]

Honestly no, because at that point I'd just be that much more ignorant.

Ignorance is bliss, until it causes an event that creates a lot of self-harm and you're blaming it on your ignorance.

The only reason you think it is ignorant is because you know so. What if you don't even feel as you're being ignorant but rather feel like you're on the right path? Think our lives would be much easier tbh, too bad not everyone is retarded

[Empire]

The only reason you think it is ignorant is because you know so. What if you don't even feel as you're being ignorant but rather feel like you're on the right path? Think our lives would be much easier tbh, too bad not everyone is retarded

Dude.....what?

It's like saying "what if we didn't know about physics" and thought everything was because of spirits.

No. It's not better.

[Ceelker]

What am I if I just don't believe in anything. Like there just isn't an old bearded man sitting somewhere on the clouds, and no, we do not travel anywhere when we die.
You like die, it's over. There's no feeling, nothing.

[Hunter Jr.]

We truely are the most depresded people on the planet.

Not really. I live a happy life.

I laugh everyday with friends, hang out with them, then go home and have fun on MPGH. I have a fun life, but I'm invigorated by the thing called "knowledge".

What you're asking for is to be taught the things that have been passed down for thousands of years because you're scared to see truth, so you want to hide your brain capable of so much more by having it dulled out to ignorant thoughts. Through my eyes, it's more disappointing to expect something and get the opposite. You live, you die, plain and simple. People ask me, "well if there is no afterlife what is there?" They answer their own question. Nothing.

[The Doctor.]

Even though the religions are wrong, what they say about atheïsts is true.

We truely are the most depresded people on the planet.
I just sometimes wish I could erase the logic-part from my brain and just believe in a religion and believe eventually everything will be okay.

I can't be the only one around here, am I?

I would rather believe that the worlds going to shit and its gonna end tomorrow then believe in god.

[lockedalt]

I believe in an afterlife. It's called purgatory.

[666HiddenMaster666]

We truely are the most depresded people on the planet.

Learn to turn pessimism into optimistic realism

[.Herbs.]

You can create anything you want to in your imagination - it's the most "Godlike" thing about humans that there is, in the sense that anything at all that you want you can instantly have - in your imagination.

If you believe that when you die there will be nothing, then that possibility must exist somewhere in the Universe since you imagined it. The Universe is big enough to fit inside it every imaginable possibility that you and everyone else can ever come up with.

Saying that there's nothing after death is essentially, to me, saying that you know exactly how big the Universe is and where everything in it is. Basically, it doesn't matter, because whatever you believe is made real somewhere in existence. Better to believe in something that makes you feel good. If the belief in nothing after death makes you feel that way, more power to you. Just try not to step on anyone else's rosy pictures of an afterlife while thinking that you know better, please.

[Empire]

You can create anything you want to in your imagination - it's the most "Godlike" thing about humans that there is, in the sense that anything at all that you want you can instantly have - in your imagination.

Well unfortunately you are conflating this universe with the multiverse theory.

Imagination is not indicative of possibility. It's a concept, not a reality.
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Saying that there's nothing after death is essentially, to me, saying that you know exactly how big the Universe is and where everything in it is. Basically, it doesn't matter, because whatever you believe is made real somewhere in existence. Better to believe in something that makes you feel good. If the belief in nothing after death makes you feel that way, more power to you. Just try not to step on anyone else's rosy pictures of an afterlife while thinking that you know better, please.

That's just ignorant of why we believe things exist. I Mean how do you know there isn't a blind hippo at the bottom of the ocean creating stars with his nostrils? You don't!
>We don't believe in things that have no evidence. That's why.

Better to believe in something that makes you feel good. If the belief in nothing after death makes you feel that way, more power to you. Just try not to step on anyone else's rosy pictures of an afterlife while thinking that you know better, please.

This is essentially every religious argument ever in the end. "It makes me feel good".

Great. It's also a belief not based on reality that will eventually get skewed into manipulating people like you, you stupid fuck.

Using a crutch is fine, until you can walk. Using it indefinitely is not knowing what the crutch is for.

[.Herbs.]

Well unfortunately you are conflating this universe with the multiverse theory.

Imagination is not indicative of possibility. It's a concept, not a reality.
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That's just ignorant of why we believe things exist. I Mean how do you know there isn't a blind hippo at the bottom of the ocean creating stars with his nostrils? You don't!
>We don't believe in things that have no evidence. That's why.




This is essentially every religious argument ever in the end. "It makes me feel good".

Great. It's also a belief not based on reality that will eventually get skewed into manipulating people like you, you stupid fuck.

Using a crutch is fine, until you can walk. Using it indefinitely is not knowing what the crutch is for.

Imagination creates reality, so I disagree. Everything in the modern world must have first been imagined for it to be here. If you imagine a blind hippo at the bottom of the ocean, then it must exist somewhere in the Universe.

A belief about something is only as real as the amount of attention you give that belief. You can make anything you imagine real, so why not spend that energy on something that feels good? It doesn't matter if no one else believes in your reality, because it's yours. No one can manipulate you when you are consciously choosing what you believe and those beliefs are only bringing you joy. Cue the people who are steadfast about beliving that the Bible is an accurate depiction of history just as an example. If that blind hippo of theirs brings them joy and they don't push that hippo into people, who cares?

There is no difference between a strong crutch used indefinitely and a leg, except the crutch can be changed when you get tired of it. Being able to entertain the possibilitity of anything being true is what the imagination allows us to do. Thinking that we as humans can interpret one true reality is ignorant. Everyone lives in their own world anyway regardless, so does it really matter as long as our beliefs aren't hurting others?

Athiesm is just another word for closed mindedness and thinking that you know how the Universe works, which is something infinitely bigger than you are. Seems kind of ignorant to me. In such a big place there is plenty of room for absolutely anything to be true. Anything at all

[Empire]

Imagination creates reality, so I disagree. Everything in the modern world must have first been imagined for it to be here. If you imagine a blind hippo at the bottom of the ocean, then it must exist somewhere in the Universe.

You are now misplacing "imagination" with "invention". So yeah, you're wrong again.

A belief about something is only as real as the amount of attention you give that belief. You can make anything you imagine real, so why not spend that energy on something that feels good? It doesn't matter if no one else believes in your reality, because it's yours. No one can manipulate you when you are consciously choosing what you believe and those beliefs are only bringing you joy. Cue the people who are steadfast about beliving that the Bible is an accurate depiction of history just as an example. If that blind hippo of theirs brings them joy and they don't push that hippo into people, who cares?

Not in objective reality. Yes you can have delusions. Moving on.

There is no difference between a strong crutch used indefinitely and a leg, except the crutch can be changed when you get tired of it. Being able to entertain the possibilitity of anything being true is what the imagination allows us to do. Thinking that we as humans can interpret one true reality is ignorant. Everyone lives in their own world anyway regardless, so does it really matter as long as our beliefs aren't hurting others?

The beliefs are hurting others and this system of "let anyone believe whatever woo-woo they want" has caused and is causing an intelligent deficit in the youth of America as opposed to the rest of the world.

A crutch is meant to be taken off. That's the point of the metaphor. Not that you can "ease the pain by switching to another religion".

Derp.

Athiesm is just another word for closed mindedness and thinking that you know how the Universe works, which is something infinitely bigger than you are. Seems kind of ignorant to me. In such a big place there is plenty of room for absolutely anything to be true. Anything at all

Of course it seems ignorant to you, you made up a definition then said it was stupid.(strawman).


It's not that there cannot be a god, but that we have no reason to believe there is one.


Idiot.

[GerrysamHD]

Well unfortunately you are conflating this universe with the multiverse theory.

Imagination is not indicative of possibility. It's a concept, not a reality.
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That's just ignorant of why we believe things exist. I Mean how do you know there isn't a blind hippo at the bottom of the ocean creating stars with his nostrils? You don't!
>We don't believe in things that have no evidence. That's why.




This is essentially every religious argument ever in the end. "It makes me feel good".

Great. It's also a belief not based on reality that will eventually get skewed into manipulating people like you, you stupid fuck.

Using a crutch is fine, until you can walk. Using it indefinitely is not knowing what the crutch is for.

I love the idea of a multiverse, it keeps me going. I love the idea that someday we may find another universe with
different laws. Its just amazing =D

[.Herbs.]

The concept of god is not hard to grasp.

Imagination is God, and that the part of you that can imagine anything is the part of Him that is in you. It's not hard to grasp at all.

A delusion is a belief or set of ideas not set in objective reality. Life is not a delusion you control

Perhaps doing some research into multiple personality disorder would change your mind about this. People heal their eyes and other physical injuries/ailments within seconds of changing to another personality.
Life is input that you take in and interpret using your beliefs. Change your beliefs, change your life. Your subjective delusions manifest themselves in the objective world if you believe in them completely. People who suffer from MPD provide plenty of evidence for this.
You may not be able to change what happens to you, but you can change your interpretation of the outer world. You have complete control of your inner world. The power of your mind is absolute.

Unfortunately you lack the capacity to both know and implement things in any realistic scale.

I am glad I do not live in your reality. Lol

If you delude yourself", seriously, listen to yourself: You are stating that you should ignore reality and go into woo-woo land

This is exactly what I am saying. It's benefits are boundless. You can manifest whatever you want for yourself and watch it appear with a speed equivalent to the depth of your belief of already having it.

You are a fucking retard.

This is an interesting viewpoint for you to take. I think it ties in nicely with the opinion I shared in my other post:

"Athiests are more depressed based on the fact that they limit themselves by their own beliefs to what is possible, and often feel the need to degrade others or otherwise state that they are somehow more superior than those who do not share their viewpoints."

Energy being sustained has nothing to do with your imagination. Nothing. It's a complete non-sequitor to say energy conservation means imagination = reality.

If what you imagined did not exist in some form in some place in the Universe, how would you be able to imagine it?
We are vibrational beings that are able to interpret energy in such a way that allows us to form thoughts, dreams, delusions. To imagine.
Are you saying you do not believe this energy exists, that you believe humans don't have imaginations, or that you believe humans create and destroy energy when using their imaginations?

Physics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Therefore everything we imagine must already exist in some way shape or form, in some intangible place in the Universe, until we attract it into our three-dimensional experience. I suggest deluding yourself into feeling like you already have all that you desire as a method to attract these things that you imagine into your objective life. What you focus on expands, so the more you focus on what you like, the more of it you will get.

My belief is that the Bible is not about an old man in the sky, or a bunch of people in Jerusalem and Romans and whathaveyou. It is an allegorical collection of stories that illustrate the power of the mind. All of the people and places in the Bible are references to parts of the self, with Jesus being the I AM that one imagines to be - the highest form of the self, and God being the Imagination, the father of Jesus.