I have always doubted but I have never quite been a heathen.
Come to the dark side. We have cookies.
Is that you, Darth?
No. No one
No-one, hey, I'm a nobody.
Asmo. The Asmo. Pleasantries.
I put more stock in scepticism than I do in belief one way or the other. I don't buy any non-vague description of a god as a thing that must - or is even likely to - exist, especially as a god, and find those of more vague variety irrelevant to my existence.
In any case, scepticism can take you far on the intellectual journey that is life, I think. Doubt is good. Well, unless you are a soldier, whose is but to do and die, or a child faced with the dilemma of crossing the road in front of a speeding lorry or not.
I believe that scepticism is healthy in small doses. One must believe in something other than ourselves, anything other than religion. For me, it is humanism that helps me to stay grounded.
It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is hell.
I am not a teacher but a heathen, parodying Robert Frost.
Quote from: MarcusA on April 24, 2023, 05:52:14 PMIt is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The gloriously-mustachioed one was onto something there. The question, I think, is how you approach said certainty. If the hardest, most brittle model of reality you apply is subject to change, then it's probably not too bad. If, however, your world is contingent on thing being just-so... Yeah. With the advent of a conflicting reality - or just a better model, it may be subject to... Madness.
Quote from: Asmodean on April 26, 2023, 07:38:50 AMQuote from: MarcusA on April 24, 2023, 05:52:14 PMIt is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The gloriously-mustachioed one was onto something there. The question, I think, is how you approach said certainty. If the hardest, most brittle model of reality you apply is subject to change, then it's probably not too bad. If, however, your world is contingent on thing being just-so... Yeah. With the advent of a conflicting reality - or just a better model, it may be subject to... Madness.
Madness is a whole other world.
Not at all. It's just a persistently-poor model of the world or approach to it.
Quote from: Asmodean on April 28, 2023, 07:46:34 AMNot at all. It's just a persistently-poor model of the world or approach to it.
I think that it is just the luck of the draw.
The world is just fine. It's the hooman infestation that's the issue.
Quote from: No one on April 29, 2023, 12:41:23 PMThe world is just fine. It's the hooman infestation that's the issue.
:sadnod: The Asmo spent one and a half hour to travel five kilometers by car this morning. He blames humans.
...Come to think of it, He ought to SMITE some, is what He ought to do. :smilenod:
Smite them all.
Every. Last. Mother fucking. One. Of. Them.
No one, I know that you like playing around, but humanity is in crisis.
I fucking hate people.
And you hate yourself so much that you talk to them.
I like individual persons, I do not like the species. They are fucking awful creatures.
Compared to nature, human beings are nothing different.
Right. Are you new to the planet?
I am lame, not tame.
Is that a yes?
I don't know. You decide for yourself.
Humanism might be all I have in the end.
That's a bit sad, as statements go. One really ought to have more in life than its overarching philosophy. Of course, a lot of people do not... Some don't even have that, really.
Quote from: Asmodean on May 05, 2023, 07:21:47 AMThat's a bit sad, as statements go. One really ought to have more in life than its overarching philosophy. Of course, a lot of people do not... Some don't even have that, really.
There's no heaven or hell in humanism.
One could argue that there is no heaven or hell in existence.
Why is its absence or presence in Humanism at all relevant? If your preferred life philosophy had a doctrine of Santa-worship, would you then believe in Santa just because "an ideology demands it?"
Quote from: Asmodean on May 09, 2023, 08:27:03 AMOne could argue that there is no heaven or hell in existence.
Why is its absence or presence in Humanism at all relevant? If your preferred life philosophy had a doctrine of Santa-worship, would you then believe in Santa just because "an ideology demands it?"
Humanism forces nothing on me.
Therein lies my question; how is Humanism having a heaven or hell relevant to your life philosophy?
Quote from: MarcusA on May 06, 2023, 04:35:07 AMQuote from: Asmodean on May 05, 2023, 07:21:47 AMThat's a bit sad, as statements go. One really ought to have more in life than its overarching philosophy. Of course, a lot of people do not... Some don't even have that, really.
There's no heaven or hell in humanism.
I'm at best a coincidental Humanist though - I doubt that many Humanists would call me one.
Quote from: Asmodean on May 11, 2023, 07:49:15 AMI'm at best a coincidental Humanist though - I doubt that many Humanists would call me one.
No-one can really call themselves a humanist. It is usual to call a person a humanist after they are dead.
A man is but an animal without a woman.
:lol: Better that, I suppose, than being an animal with a woman... Well, unless both parties are into such kinks.
I want to fuck you like an animal - Nine Inch Nails. Damn good song.