What If You’re Wrong?

February 1st, 2011 | Categories: Amazing, Deep Thoughts, Interesting, picture | Tags: , , , , , , ,

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  1. Derbin Olman
    February 1st, 2011 at 10:28
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    Call me crazy, but if the religions of the world would just subscribe to this way of thinking, most wars would suddenly be seen as what they are: pointless.

    • Len
      February 1st, 2011 at 13:22
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      You mean as opposed to being what they currently are: big business.

      • nicholas
        February 16th, 2011 at 09:20
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        Right? I don’t know why people insist on this mem that wars and killing is about religion. Yes, wars and killing sometimes happen in conjunction with religion. Sometimes they are even the cause of it (rarely) but usually even if the apparent reason for war is religion the actual reason is economic. It’s really boring how people get stuck on this. People are good and bad in conjunction with religion. People are also good and bad without religion.

  2. Jack Wamble
    February 2nd, 2011 at 23:18
    Reply | Quote | #4

    This is the Atheist Wager right?

    • Andre
      February 2nd, 2011 at 23:29
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      Not really a wager, more of a “fuck off”.

  3. anti_supernaturalist
    February 7th, 2011 at 17:04
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    one cure for xian irrationality and hatred

    Xianity has hated rational thought ever since Stoics and Epicureans laughed S/Paul of Tarsus (fl 50-65 CE) out of the Agora when he tried to “convert” some Athenian philosophers to his new god (Acts17:18 NIV).

    • Whatever xians hate deserves a closer look as something likely to be good. Five hundred years before the Stoic emperor wrote exhortations to himself, Epicurus (340-270 BCE) devised and openly shared a philosophy of nature based on atomism and a philosophy of life (an ethic) based on a rational pleasure principle.

    •…live like a god among ordinary people. Epicurus’ conclusions drawn from his atomism are distilled into four statements. The tetrapharmakos = 4-fold cure for anxiety: what about gods, suffering, death?

    Don`t fear god,
    Don`t worry about death;
    What is good is easy to get, and
    What is terrible is easy to endure.
    – Philodemus from a Herculaneum scroll (100 BCE)

    • What’s the best life to lead? Epicurus’ own advice to a follower:

    “Think about these things [in my texts]…yourself, and with a companion like yourself, and you will never be disturbed while awake or asleep.

    But you will live like a god among ordinary people. For those who live among immortal blessings are not like mortal beings.”

    the anti-supernaturalist