I Don't Believe In Anything · 6:44pm Aug 10th, 2015
I don't believe in anything, and I'm fine with that. I know facts, and the fact is that people die. Everything afterwards is only speculation. Evolution is speculation, and creation is speculation. The facts are that we don't know everything about the universe or how we got here, and I'm fine with that. Does not believing in anything make me immoral? No, because I still have a conscience. I'm not violent, and I respect myself and others enough to at least respect the rules of society. I don't need to replace the unknown with God, because I'm fine with not knowing. The only thing I know for sure is that I'm alive, and soon I will die. Does that mean my life is meaningless? No, because I know the meaning of life, and it's love. The meaning of life is not "be good and you'll go to heaven." because Good in a Christian sense is just blindly obeying God's rules so that you might get to heaven. I don't want to restrict myself in this life just so I can "maybe" live forever. Death is devoid of all consciousness and brain activity, to me that's it. I don't see that as heaven, and I don't believe in a "soul" or "spirit" that goes there either. I want to live fully in this life, start a family and teach the next generation how to enjoy their lives, so when I die it won't be in vain. I'm fine with not knowing what comes next.
You don't believe in anything? Okay, Mr. Nihilist.
But I thought you didn't believe in anything?
But if you respect yourself and the rules of society, then you must believe, simultaneously, in "yourself," "the rules of society," and "respect" itself.
And now you believe in love. (But what is love?) Baby don't hurt me.
So clearly, we have established that you are not, in fact, a nihilist. You do believe in things. You take experiences and observations and apply meaning to them, despite not knowing for certain whether the reality you are experiencing is truly real. You roll with these experiences, because that's the only way to deal with reality without rejecting it outright.
You didn't grow up in a Christian household, or at the very least, your parents never tried to indoctrinate you with Christianity, since you don't take God on faith. You don't believe in evolution because it's not a process you can observe in your lifetime, and thus you haven't observed it. I imagine that there's a bunch of other things that you haven't experienced, and won't experience, because you won't take time out of your day to explore the unknown, eldritch truths of the universe. You believe things you experience, and don't question further.
It's a very lazy way of looking at the world, but quite understandable. Humanity wasn't designed to waste time and energy thinking about things that they haven't, and likely won't experience.
In other words, you're basically like everyone else on your planet. Good job, filthy mortal, on proving to me that every single one of you is the same.
3309816 Wrong, I was raised in an extremely Christian household I just don't blindly follow my parents beliefs.
As far as not believing in anything I meant in either evolution or creation.
Also... I'm just like everyone else. Baa!
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Well, if that's what you meant...
I find it interesting that you don't believe in evolution. Do you not understand it? It seems like an obvious truth to me. Things that produce offspring that reproduce will make more of themselves and thus there will be more of them. Things that don't will die with no offspring. Changes that result in more surviving offspring will lead to more surviving offspring. Evolution.
Are you euphoric in this moment?
3311159 No I swear I haven't been hypnotized.
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Everybody's knee-jerk reaction to someone declaring atheism/agnosticism/whatever-you-personally-want-to-call-it is to put you down or make quips about euphoria and fedoras but I think it's a big step for anyone to take. Especially for someone raised Christian. I don't think anyone should scoff at such a drastic change in convictions. Good for you, keep thinking for yourself.
3312392 Thanks man!