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This part of the book is depressing.
The author is in a doc’s waiting room and a man next to him says, “What does it matter if I’m going to die?”
Exactly.
“If you Google around, you’ll find atheists telling you that we make or create our own meaning. But how important is the creation of my own meaning if it’s nothing more than something I concocted on a Sunday afternoon?”
— Aug 20, 2021 10:14AM
The author is in a doc’s waiting room and a man next to him says, “What does it matter if I’m going to die?”
Exactly.
“If you Google around, you’ll find atheists telling you that we make or create our own meaning. But how important is the creation of my own meaning if it’s nothing more than something I concocted on a Sunday afternoon?”
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Genevieve
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All right! Jordan Peterson made the book! Love that guy!
— Aug 20, 2021 10:22AM
Genevieve
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“Dwayne A. Garrett writes that Ecclesiastes examines “the vain attempts to gain genuine personal worth through wealth and pleasure… accomplishments…power…knowledge”…
Garrett writes that “Ecclesiastes urges its readers to recognize that they are mortal. They must abandon all illusions of self importance, face death and life squarely, and accept with fear and trembling their dependence on God.””
— Aug 20, 2021 10:18AM
Garrett writes that “Ecclesiastes urges its readers to recognize that they are mortal. They must abandon all illusions of self importance, face death and life squarely, and accept with fear and trembling their dependence on God.””
Genevieve
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“…on average, people spent about 10 hours and 24 minutes interacting with media each day… I’m not suggesting we can’t watch a clean movie or a sporting event or interact on social media, but as Dallas Willard told us in class, those most useful for the kingdom of God are those who spend the least amount of time doing what doesn’t matter.”
— Aug 20, 2021 08:27AM
Genevieve
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Wonderful example of how scholars will quote from the Bible and twist it to make a point that is not biblically accurate.
Stephen Cave quotes Ecclesiastes ch 9 to support his philosophy that happiness is our goal. “Eat, drink, be merry!” “That’s what the Bible says! That’s the conclusion of the writer of E.”
Nope. Ch 12: fear God and keep his commandments, this is man’s duty. Judgement will come.
— Aug 20, 2021 08:24AM
Stephen Cave quotes Ecclesiastes ch 9 to support his philosophy that happiness is our goal. “Eat, drink, be merry!” “That’s what the Bible says! That’s the conclusion of the writer of E.”
Nope. Ch 12: fear God and keep his commandments, this is man’s duty. Judgement will come.
Genevieve
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Finished the mortality mitigation project section.
Quite interesting that many atheists end up subscribing to Buddhist ideas. It’s especially intriguing to me, as that’s right where I went. A rejection of Christianity took me to atheism, then Buddhism, new age, and new thought. All right in line with the same idea - monism - all is one.
— Aug 19, 2021 09:57PM
Quite interesting that many atheists end up subscribing to Buddhist ideas. It’s especially intriguing to me, as that’s right where I went. A rejection of Christianity took me to atheism, then Buddhism, new age, and new thought. All right in line with the same idea - monism - all is one.
Genevieve
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Mortality mitigation projects. This is the reason I bought this book- the author’s interview on this area was great.
The best part about atheism is believing in annihilation after death. That’s the mitigation project that comes right after reasoning out how boring immortality would be. We didn’t exist before birth, we won’t after. Much more comforting than eternal life in hell or heaven.
— Aug 19, 2021 07:50AM
The best part about atheism is believing in annihilation after death. That’s the mitigation project that comes right after reasoning out how boring immortality would be. We didn’t exist before birth, we won’t after. Much more comforting than eternal life in hell or heaven.
Genevieve
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“Parisian philosopher Luk Ferry is one of those who have decided there probably is no God… Ferry writes, “The quest for a salvation without God is at the heart of every great philosophical system, and that is its essential and ultimate objective.”
— Aug 18, 2021 08:00AM
Genevieve
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The rest of the symbolic immortality projects are just depressing.
Celebrity, fandom, sexual partners/seduction, victimhood, and infamy.
Of course, the author affirms that people after these things aren’t always looking to be memorialized, but it’s part of the package.
— Aug 18, 2021 07:56AM
Celebrity, fandom, sexual partners/seduction, victimhood, and infamy.
Of course, the author affirms that people after these things aren’t always looking to be memorialized, but it’s part of the package.
Genevieve
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Symbolic immorality projects:
Creation (kids, works of art/books), heroism, activism, making a difference, correcting belief.
— Aug 17, 2021 04:20PM
Creation (kids, works of art/books), heroism, activism, making a difference, correcting belief.
Genevieve
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Literal immortality projects:
Cryogenically freezing people, uploading your brain onto a computer, waiting for the Singularity. That one was new to me. The hope is that we will make a super-intelligent computer that will then be able to make even smarter computers and this will lead to fixing everything! Hooray!
Jones is doing great quoting these guys. They sound nuttier than those quoting Bible verses- by a lot.
— Aug 16, 2021 10:09PM
Cryogenically freezing people, uploading your brain onto a computer, waiting for the Singularity. That one was new to me. The hope is that we will make a super-intelligent computer that will then be able to make even smarter computers and this will lead to fixing everything! Hooray!
Jones is doing great quoting these guys. They sound nuttier than those quoting Bible verses- by a lot.
