A False Sense of Security

@fmf said
Christians, Muslims and Jews are groups of people based on their religions. This does not negate the fact that they are individuals too. In the post of mine you are replying to, I am talking about religions and their followers. If you like to avoid thinking about people in terms of the groupings they wish to put themselves in, I am not sure why you are replying to my post about religious groupings and their doctrines.

Probably because I thought it would lead to an interesting conversation on a social site. Nice to meet you a bit more!

@petewxyz said
To what extent are we experiencing our inevitable decisions and to what extent do we decide our decisions. How easily can we run against personality to the point of changing it through sustaining novel preferred positions?

What's a "novel preferred position" in the context of what we are talking about?

@fmf said
What's a "novel preferred position" in the context of what we are talking about?

Pretty much any preferred self you are trying to steer your real self towards, be that by evolving your religious or spiritual philosophy or any other aspect of life. Off to meet my daughter for lunch, nice to talk.

@petewxyz said
Pretty much any preferred self you are trying to steer your real self towards, be that by evolving your religious or spiritual philosophy or any other aspect of life.

And why does this mean that a "true" atheist is - for you - one who ends up as a theist for a relatively short period of time at the end of his or her life?

@petewxyz said
I'm just saying that if you truly believe those are your final seconds you should allow whatever beliefs enter your head that give you comfort.

That's not how belief works.

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Oh the irony.

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A nice damning by faint praise.

I was having a conversation with FMF and you go jumping in like it's a public site or something...

(You never know, if you keep fighting the new boy in the playground you may even end up friends 😮)

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I think that admittedly badly worded sentence is being taken out of context of the post it was in. As opposed to anybody wishing to find the meaning of the post they seem to want me to defend a position that I wasn't trying to talk about. It's a shame because I think there is a potentially interesting conversation about the implications of believing 100% that the end of life is just that.

I certainly don't want to overly reflect on a conversation in this forum where everybody focussed on the one small sentence in the post that was ill worded and not the point of the post or I might find myself in very strange company.