Reply to Re: Temporal Nullification, should it be my new tag?
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What if today a scientific journal announces that God doesn't exists and life has no sense?
Why, exactly, would life have no sense when nobody is up there watching us? It's the same as arguing that there must be an afterlife because without it, life would be meaningless ("you just do things and then you die"). Why does life need to be infinite to have meaning? I've never heard a satisfying answer to that question.
Why wouldn't you be a murder, robber and sort of? If every single person could believe that no-one will be there watching us our world would be chaotic.
I do not think that would happen. There's no reason to think arbitrary people would go on a murder spree when it is discovered that there is no God. If you have no desire to murder now, you won't have it then either. The point is that murderers are not born but mostly made by their upbringing (bad parents, bad friends) and their environment (hanging on the street), possibly influenced by a psychological disorder. If their needs (love, affection, direction in life) would have been met, they would not have murdered. It is too easy to say that they are evil and evilness made them do it. I think life pushes them to a point where they see no other option, although they do have other options. It's similar to suicide: people commit suicide because they see no other options, although they do have them.
Why, exactly, would life have no sense when nobody is up there watching us? It's the same as arguing that there must be an afterlife because without it, life would be meaningless ("you just do things and then you die"). Why does life need to be infinite to have meaning? I've never heard a satisfying answer to that question.
Why wouldn't you be a murder, robber and sort of? If every single person could believe that no-one will be there watching us our world would be chaotic.
I do not think that would happen. There's no reason to think arbitrary people would go on a murder spree when it is discovered that there is no God. If you have no desire to murder now, you won't have it then either. The point is that murderers are not born but mostly made by their upbringing (bad parents, bad friends) and their environment (hanging on the street), possibly influenced by a psychological disorder. If their needs (love, affection, direction in life) would have been met, they would not have murdered. It is too easy to say that they are evil and evilness made them do it. I think life pushes them to a point where they see no other option, although they do have other options. It's similar to suicide: people commit suicide because they see no other options, although they do have them.
