If you could get rid of ONE thing in the......

The weather. I'd like it to be weather-less.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Smug atheists.

Biggins wrote: »

We're only smug 'cos we right all the time!

Maybe so but you know the phrase "Ignorance is bliss?"
Statistics show atheists are more likely to suffer from depression and suicide.

Not having a pop but I can say I'm quite happy keeping an open mind.

Da_Viper wrote: »

Maybe so but you know the phrase "Ignorance is bliss?"
Statistics show atheists are more likely to suffer from depression and suicide.

Not having a pop but I can say I'm quite happy keeping an open mind.

It's 99% true, and as everyone knows 72% of the time, statistics are accurate 94% of the time. But of course 81% of all people know that. lol.

Da_Viper wrote: »

Not having a pop but I can say I'm quite happy keeping an open mind.

Atheism is the new Buddhism, it's seen to be enlightened if you pronounce yourself as such and with that of course comes a sense of superiority, better than the herd, which is why they spout on about 'natural selection' so much, no doubt with a smirk on their faces as of course, as it refers to those they see as being beneath them, with regards to evolution at least.

In large part I think people are falling over themselves to tell us all that they are atheists as what it does in effect is distance themselves from religion. A thread was started not so long about what happens after we die and some of the comments in that were laughable. People seem to think the birth of spirituality and a belief in an after life stems from orignised religions and it most certainly does not. They (smug atheists) also tend to throw the word 'science' around is if the word somehow obliterated all possibility of a spiritual world (for want of a better phrase). Not only that but it would also suggest that there couldn't possibly be scientists who are spiritual, which of course is a also a nonsense.

Not sure if you have seen it, but there is a docu/movie on at the cinema at the moment called: CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (3D) and I would really recommend it. It's about the Chauvet cave in France, where explorers discovered hundreds of cave drawings of animals by man over 30,000 years ago. What these scientists discovered was that there was without question a sense of spirituality with these people but that wasn't what I took away from the film in fact. What struck me most of all was how spiritual these scientists had become as a result of working on it.

So when I see people waffling on about how they are men & women of science and that they question the sanity of anyone who is spiritual or has a belief that there is an after life in a way, I feel sad for them - as what they are doing is cutting themselves off from being human. They are in effect creating a new religion, just as suppressive as the Islamic faith or Catholicism, as what it suppresses is the right for humans to have *some* beliefs based on human instinct and human intuition.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Atheism is the new Buddhism, it's seen to be enlightened if you pronounce yourself as such and with that of course comes a sense of superiority, better than the herd, which is why they spout on about 'natural selection' so much, no doubt with a smirk on their faces as of course, as it refers to those they see as being beneath them, with regards to evolution at least.

In large part I think people are falling over themselves to tell us all that they are atheists as what it does in effect is distance themselves from religion. A thread was started not so long about what happens after we die and some of the comments in that were laughable. People seem to think the birth of spirituality and a belief in an after life stems from orignised religions and it most certainly does not. They (smug atheists) also tend to throw the word 'science' around is if the word somehow obliterated all possibility of a spiritual world (for want of a better phrase). Not only that but it would also suggest that there couldn't possibly be scientists who are spiritual, which of course is a also a nonsense.

Not sure if you have seen it, but there is a docu/movie on at the cinema at the moment called: CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (3D) and I would really recommend it. It's about the Chauvet cave in France, where explorers discovered hundreds of cave drawings of animals by man over 30,000 years ago. What these scientists discovered was that there was without question a sense of spirituality with these people but that wasn't what I took away from the film in fact. What struck me most of all was how spiritual these scientists had become as a result of working on it.

So when I see people waffling on about how they are men & women of science and that they question the sanity of anyone who is spiritual or has a belief that there is an after life in a way, I feel sad for them - as what they are doing is cutting themselves off from being human. They are in effect creating a new religion, just as suppressive as the Islamic faith or Catholicism, as what it suppresses is the right for humans to have *some* beliefs based on human instinct and human intuition.

Must.....not.....be....smug..... Resist.... urge..... to.. point... out.... inaccuracies... :pac:

No one comes off as smug and conceited as you when discussing any of the above themes Pete. The annoying thing is that you can't even see it.