Camelspider's picture

so....i have a question about all of this.....

as an atheist i am not inclined to believe in anything supernatural. well, as the years have gone on, my understanding has grown of science and the cosmos. this has led to a lot more questions about life and love, human intelligence and understanding.

long story short.....i still have not found a viable answer to the question of why.  or a purpose if you will.

passing on genetic information is kind of a cop out to me, gaining knowledge seems futile if there is no after the end. so that's out. betterment of mankind is out due to a selfish nature in me. (if i don't get to play with the new toy then why invent the tool that is going to make it?)

if i were a member of the faithful i would call this a crisis of faith, but i am not one. so if you are at all able to help and guide me to some sort of reasoning or purpose that would be great. 

i have no want of a higher thingy in the sky™

can an atheist have a crisis of non belief?

can i not really care......or worry about the gaps?     maybe that's the purpose......

 

all these questions...agggghhhhhh.    good night.....

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Dr. Richard Dawkins

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