Reply To: Spiritual atheist.

Laughs I don’t think Alan Watts is particularly logical, but it’s a nice view of our place in the universe. It’s all speculation, and if there were to be an afterlife there’s probably a huge beurocracy with eternal waiting rooms, a la Beetlejuice 🙂

You should perceive “reality” however it pleases you to do so. If you find life easier to experience with an imaginary overlay, I’m not going to stop you. I think that’s the whole point regarding religions really. They’re just a particular tinted lens by which you elect to perceive the world. The idiotic part is when you’ve chosen your lenses, that if you’re of a religious bent, you try to make your lenses the de fact “right” lenses for everyone else, whereas even two people of the same denomination of the same religion in the same parish will see through quite differing lenses, because they’re tailored to each individual by each individual.

This is why people can bomb, mutilate and destroy other people whilst still calling themselves adherents to a religion of peace.

I’ll use my specs, thanks, and you can use yours.