08 Jan '11 04:29>
Originally posted by AgergWell, that's just more of your subjective thinking infecting the well. Of course you would suggest that whatever gets you through the night is on equal par with whatever gets me through the night: your thinking doesn't allow for objective truth.
To summarise my point: Your insistence that your god imparts any real meaning to existence seems true[hidden]to you[/hidden]only since you have faith it's true.
Any claims just as outlandish on my part that would seek to undermine the meaningfulness of your existence would be dismissed so easily by yourself as I and other atheists dismiss yours.
If all are true, then none are true.
But, thankfully, this is not the case, and certain aspects can be reasonably deduced, assuming specific givens. If God did not exist and this life was all we had, desperation would be the order of the day. Indeed, as societies become dull in their thinking toward God, we see the folks within become increasingly more desperate in their actions. The only meaning to be found is to serve one's self, all others be damned. There is no honor, so need to act honorably.
In fact, if survival of the fittest is the template for our very existence, to not act in accord with that impetus is to act unnaturally, against the grain.