Kara Connor

Unseen wrote:
Clearly, that’s a roundabout nonsensical way of admitting that it’s likely the world would be a safer place. Thank you for your honesty. BTW, I’m not for abandoning Israel, but we need to be able to tell it forcibly on occasion that we aren’t backing it’s actions.

But surely it has a legitimate right to be there in the first place.

Unseen wrote:
Atheists don’t see suicide as sinful or an instance of sloth. They may not feel, in some instances, that it’s anyone else’s business.

You may be right.  I wonder what the suicide rate is among the religious, who presumably see it as a sin.

In Switzerland, Spoerri et al. used census data (3.7 million adults) and death certif…

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Would you say that there’s something in atheism that makes people want to kill themselves?  I don’t think there is, and I’ve never heard of that before.  Atheism makes people want to celebrate life and make the most of it.

Maybe suicidal people gravitate towards it as a nihilistic position.

I saw on Facebook recently that some people say that atheists are more likely to commit suicide than other groups.  I don’t know if that’s true or not.  If it is, then it could be for a number of reasons.  Atheism is a nihilistic position in that, simplistically, it’s the “worship of nothing”.  However, that’s for people who over-think thi…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If the universe isn’t eternal, than the universe itself is wasted along with everything that was once in it.

Wasted for whom?  There’s nothing to feel a sense of waste.  You could say it’s the existential dilemma of the atheist: uncomfortable impermanence vs. the comfortable eternity of the religious.

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Unseen wrote:
How to deal with it indeed.

I think the only thing to do is to live a good life: authentic and compassionate.  Then, at least it’s not wasted.  There is no cosmic significance of anything.  The point is, what’s it like for you?

Could a future religion in which death is final create a real utopia?

From Sunday School today (landing soon)