[ExI] Meaning in life (Was: Who has a vote that counts?)

Giulio Prisco giulio at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 09:26:18 UTC 2020


Well, I’m sure many atheists are very good and moral people who find
meaning in life, but I also think they are sad. Thinking that I’ll never
see my loved departed ones would make me extremely sad, to the point of
choosing to log off.

On 2020. Aug 2., Sun at 11:10, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 01/08/2020 07:52, Someone, not clear who, wrote:
> > Decline of religiousity means decreased social networks and lack of
> > meaning in life
>
> I find that at least misguided, if not obnoxious. It's the sort of thing
> I'd expect a religious apologist to say, not someone on this list.
>
> You can possibly argue about the social networks aspect, and at least
> that is quantifiable, but the remark about meaning in life is totally
> unacceptable. It's another form of the specious 'Atheists must be very
> sad people' meme that the god-squad keep trotting out.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
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