/pol/ — When did you grow out of religion and become an atheist?

AnonymousID:j9l3j6FF06/11/26(Thu)17:49:44No.536869470

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>>536869038 (OP)
>Atheism in 2026
Kek.
*tips fedora*
Jay Dyer makes a living from destroying atheists in debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QyPP6OHH24

AnonymousID:hnTfWV+a06/11/26(Thu)17:51:47No.536869606

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>>536869038 (OP)
i'm agnostic, and an asymptotical believer in a higher power

AnonymousID:Uzyz6i4006/11/26(Thu)17:52:08No.536869637

>>536869038 (OP)
New Zealand is a land of midwits lmao.

AnonymousID:LbqBaYQW06/11/26(Thu)17:54:21No.536869775

>>536869038 (OP)
it's the other way around for most people as they realize the lie of nihilism
everything in our culture is seemingly made to turn you away from divinity

AnonymousID:vrNPhf+N06/11/26(Thu)17:55:18No.536869841

>>536869038 (OP)
i think around 2006-2008 when my granpa died

AnonymousID:K6UCoLkH06/11/26(Thu)17:56:31No.536869928

>>536869038 (OP)
Never had one to begin with

AnonymousID:hnTfWV+a06/11/26(Thu)17:58:49No.536870086

>>536869606
i think there are a bunch of us like this, who dont realize it
you know
>my god, your god, what bullshit
>there might be a god
>he probably jumps sides, because like he cares how he is worshipped
>whatever
>because if thats right
>im probably not wrong
and for all of us it must follow that
3I/atlas, being a superhuman feat and overloaded with semantical symbolism
is our 'holy' moment

AnonymousID:Abq1uFfV06/11/26(Thu)17:58:55No.536870094

>>536869038 (OP)
Until you open your history book to 33-55ad then realize there's a point you have do address what happened.

AnonymousID:LiGII9Mq06/11/26(Thu)18:01:39No.536870274

>>536869470
>>Atheism in 2026
I mean yeah, pretty much everyone I know is irreligious. My sister is the only real Christian I know, but she's also a staunch feminist and bisexual, so idk do you count that?

AnonymousID:WPERSvG006/11/26(Thu)18:03:03No.536870373

>>536869606
It passed by Mars because that's where we used to live.

AnonymousID:MEy7gBd706/11/26(Thu)18:06:20No.536870599

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>>536869038 (OP)
the scientists in your science books are christian

AnonymousID:MEy7gBd706/11/26(Thu)18:06:53No.536870638

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>>536869928
then you're dysgenic

AnonymousID:mwjmsSyc06/11/26(Thu)18:09:33No.536870826

>>536869038 (OP)
The reality is that most people need religion to function and be healthy.
Whether any of it is actually "real" doesn't matter.
Scientism and secular humanism are not good substitutes for religion.

AnonymousID:hGjY99dV06/11/26(Thu)18:09:57No.536870857

>>536869038 (OP)
Its not so much growing out of religion than retreating into atheism.

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)18:10:26No.536870892

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>>536870373
jupiter symbolizes god
thus
>war is an affront to god
>ayys attack god
mars being a former home planet is boomer wishful thinking
they hear that meteorites have components for DNA, and conclude earth was seeded, instead of realizing that DNA components are everywhere
but only on earth can they develop all the way to complex lifeforms

mars may have had life
but probably maxed out at dinosaur level, if ever
then the planet became inhabitable
tough luck

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)18:18:58No.536871420

>>536870892
>inhabitable
uninhabitable, but wow, english, eh?

AnonymousID:FswXA3Rs06/11/26(Thu)18:27:53No.536871924

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>>536870599
The scientists in a science book used the scientific method and is the only reason you know their name.

AnonymousID:RlzDnfOT06/11/26(Thu)18:31:06No.536872109

>>536869038 (OP)
I have never seen any atheist in Skyrim, and they are all NPCs. Those NPCs are better than you atheist losers.

AnonymousID:j9l3j6FF06/11/26(Thu)18:37:26No.536872448

>>536871924
>Knowledge claims
If the universe is materialistic and made up of atoms bouncing around, then how does that worldview even come to justify the existence of knowledge?
>scientific method
Why ought we use the scientific method?

AnonymousID:MEy7gBd706/11/26(Thu)18:47:51No.536873018

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>>536871924
right, they just so happen to be christian

AnonymousID:MEy7gBd706/11/26(Thu)18:48:23No.536873062

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>>536871924
that's sarcasm, btw

AnonymousID:txngKfOk06/11/26(Thu)18:49:50No.536873145

>>536869038 (OP)
Atheism simply means you believe in the holohoax as the foundation myth of your world.

AnonymousID:FswXA3Rs06/11/26(Thu)18:58:32No.536873687

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>>536873018
>scientists were all x religion

No

Also the prominent ones did a great many silly and incorrect things outside of their scientific careers, theism if they were was just one of them

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)19:37:06No.536876011

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>>536869038 (OP)
>When did you grow out of religion and become an atheist?
When I realized space daddy isn't going to save me from the terrors of existence.

AnonymousID:fC2EIkBk06/11/26(Thu)19:38:25No.536876095

>>536869606
I'm agnostic atheist and I don't know what you mean by "higher power". Can you elaborate?

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)19:40:34No.536876236

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>>536870638
>muh evolution selected for it
I guess, but it also selects for many strange things. Why can't we just say we don't know instead of story time with the shaman?

AmmonID:dsziCPgn06/11/26(Thu)19:40:56No.536876260

>>536869038 (OP)
>Grow out of religion
>Be atheist

Making a lot of assumptions, faggot.

Anyway, God is real, but that doesn't mean anything anybody wrote down is correct, my boy faggotron.

Atheism is an incorrect stance, based on the premise of your existence.

I'm not saying a "God made you" only that a pregenitor created all of what you know as reality.

You have no onus to actually worship or suck this guy's cock, he's just trying to do some shit.

AnonymousID:fC2EIkBk06/11/26(Thu)19:43:04No.536876384

>>536872448
Complex arrangements of matter, such as brains, evolved through natural selection. Brains are information-processing systems: they take sensory inputs, maintain internal models of the world, update those models via feedback, and generate adaptive behavior.

"Knowledge" here refers to reliable, truth-tracking representational states in such systems.

AnonymousID:fC2EIkBk06/11/26(Thu)19:44:03No.536876445

>>536876260
>Anyway, God is real
To you

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)19:44:11No.536876453

>>536876260
>only that a pregenitor created all of what you know as reality.
Also:
>Making a lot of assumptions, faggot.
Back at you, my boy. Why can't we just say we don't know shit instead of charlatanism?

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)19:45:29No.536876536

>>536871420
>inflammable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxGOB2hDpis

AnonymousID:LOA+6Qxo06/11/26(Thu)19:47:16No.536876649

>>536876260
>I'm not saying a "God made you" only that a pregenitor created all of what you know as reality.
Why do you assume or believe this is true? Couldn't existence be the result of a series of events that were not kicked off by a conscious intelligence?

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)19:48:36No.536876734

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>>536869038 (OP)
>When did you grow out of religion and become an atheist?
They told him, "Don't you ever come around here"
"Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear"
The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
So beat it, just beat it
You better run, you better do what you can
Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man
You wanna be tough, better do what you can
So beat it, but you wanna be bad
Just beat it (beat it), beat it (beat it)
No one wants to be defeated
Show them how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it (beat it), just beat it (beat it)
Just beat it (beat it), just beat it (beat it, uh)
They're out to get you, better leave while you can
Don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man
You wanna stay alive, better do what you can
So beat it, just beat it (rrr)
You have to show them that you're really not scared
You're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare
They'll kick you, then they'll beat you, then they'll tell you it's fair
So beat it, but you wanna be bad
Just beat it (beat it), beat it (beat it)
No one wants to be defeated
Show them how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it (beat it), beat it (beat it)
No one wants to be defeated
Show them how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it (beat it, beat it, beat it)
Beat it (beat it, beat it)
Beat it (beat it, beat it)
Beat it (beat it, beat it)
Beat it (beat it, beat it)
Beat it (beat it), beat it (beat it)

AnonymousID:fC2EIkBk06/11/26(Thu)19:50:12No.536876842

>>536876649
>Couldn't existence be the result of a series of events that were not kicked off by a conscious intelligence?
Yes

AnonymousID:Ynq9YLKc06/11/26(Thu)19:51:51No.536876948

>>536869038 (OP)
There is an extra frame to this comic, which is the consequences of godlessness leaving enough destruction to make we to go back to worshipping magic rocks

AnonymousID:X+1GoJA/06/11/26(Thu)19:52:45No.536877012

>>536869038 (OP)
When I was like 12 or something? Not sure since I never noticed it happen. Just like other childish make believe it fades over time as you mature.

AnonymousID:X+1GoJA/06/11/26(Thu)19:53:58No.536877088

>>536869606
agnostic what? Atheist, theist, believer in underpants gnomes. What are you agnostic about? You have to be specific. Just "agnostic" is not anything.

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:00:58No.536877520

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is reality a projection of consciousness?

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:01:51No.536877567

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>>536876948
>There is an extra frame to this comic, which is the consequences of godlessness leaving enough destruction to make we to go back to worshipping magic rocks
Implying belief in spooks will save us from ourselves.
NGMI

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:06:41No.536877833

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>>536877520
>is reality a projection of consciousness?
Yes. We are the voices in our heads. They are not the gods, it is us, but we can continue the retardation for another 6 million years if we want I guess.

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:10:32No.536878044

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>>536877833
>They are not the gods
probably correct
>it is us
probably not

>>536877520
>oh hey
>yall be thinkin what im thinkin
it was a wallmart knife with an LED instead, wasnt it?

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:11:30No.536878098

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>>536869038 (OP)
>When did you grow out of religion and become an atheist?
When my misguided belief in the tooth fairy is nothing compared to the reality of tooth ache. When I am told to see the beauty and "awe" in life as if the rainbow after the flood that takes everything and the pretty flower growing out of a loved one's grave is any consolation in this infernal shit stain of an existence.

AnonymousID:M2k6FpZE06/11/26(Thu)20:13:21No.536878206

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>>536869038 (OP)

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:14:01No.536878258

>>536876095
>>536877088
>>536878044
correct deduction asks
>are god(s) real
>are ayys real
>are both real
>are they maybe the same thing
concluding these are all forms of
>higher powers
and then trying to figure out if 'strict atheism' must be discarded (or not)
odds are really bad on strict atheism, im afraid

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:14:47No.536878314

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>>536878044
>>it is us
>probably not
You are free to be highly regarded.

AnonymousID:j9l3j6FF06/11/26(Thu)20:17:12No.536878433

>>536876384
>Complex arrangements of matter, such as brains, evolved through natural selection
This is contrary to the concept of entropy. How do you derive meaningful complex information from an inherently meaningless world?
>Brains are information-processing systems: they take sensory inputs, maintain internal models of the world, update those models via feedback, and generate adaptive behavior
So like a computer?
>"Knowledge" here refers to reliable, truth-tracking representational states in such systems.
What makes it reliable? Where does truth come from? Is truth subjective or objective?

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:17:23No.536878444

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>>536878258
It would be more startling to discover that there are no space aliens and that we are the only sentient life in the universe.

AnonymousID:X+1GoJA/06/11/26(Thu)20:22:31No.536878745

>>536878258
I don't believe there is a literal man in the sky as described by religions. As for more abstract higher powers. Such beliefs are not useful. What does it even mean to believe in something with no known properties, other than being a "higher power", whatever that is.

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:22:55No.536878762

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>>536878433
>This is contrary to the concept of entropy. How do you derive meaningful complex information from an inherently meaningless world?
We are ephemeral Maxwell demons. We have small time scales and small local pockets of entropy defying order. In the grand scheme of things it is meaningless though, but no one is willing to swallow that pill.

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:23:44No.536878816

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>>536878444
>thanks for the movie tip
never heard of it
(or maybe i did, and confused it with 13th warrior)

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:27:49No.536879068

>>536878044
>>536878816
>is it the government
>is it god
been there, done that, i guess
if its government, then 3i/atlas must logically be a psyop, or otherwise, altas is the big G
so even if theres small g interfering with me, there should be a court of divine(r) justice available
or there is a big G, who did do all of that, including me feeling shadowed
(it is, however, not impossible i am in fact being shadowed)
but finding 'the truth' must be available to everyone, in their own ways, i would guess

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:30:37No.536879246

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>>536878433
>What makes it reliable? Where does truth come from? Is truth subjective or objective?
Neither, both, enjoying wolf kebabs at a roth vantage?

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:38:17No.536879671

>>536870892
also it had its perihelion around oct 31st
>BOO
i mean, aliens (and/or god) being real is scary for some, i would think
but its just a joke
earth was on the other side of the sun at that moment
>what a coincidence!
dont worry humans
we <3 you
that third rock from host star

of course, all this presumes they know whats going on, on earth
so, probably, FTL must exist (or its da big G)

either way
some things are just too coincidental to be real
you know it, i know it
and it all being a psyop is pushing the boundraries on the plausible just as well
>but why would there be semantic coincidences
thats just... too unrandom to be random, too

the most simplest answer is some higher power, i think

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:38:28No.536879687

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>>536879068
>been there, done that, i guess
>if its government, then 3i/atlas must logically be a psyop, or otherwise, altas is the big G
>so even if theres small g interfering with me, there should be a court of divine(r) justice available
>or there is a big G, who did do all of that, including me feeling shadowed
>(it is, however, not impossible i am in fact being shadowed)
>but finding 'the truth' must be available to everyone, in their own ways, i would guess
ASSHOLE 2 MISSION KANTRAIL *psht*
IT'S (((you))) DUMBASS
Did you know sometimes butthole smarter than brain?
ASS 2 MOUTH CPR *patent pending*

AnonymousID:ytVMdv2M06/11/26(Thu)20:40:33No.536879809

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>>536879671
>the most simplest answer is some higher power, i think
That higher power is ((((((you))))))

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:44:10No.536880016

>>536879687
>>536879809
are you insinuating some observer bias?
maybe you had to write that down
to read it yourself
>what a coincidence that might be
i try to reflect upon my subjetive biases and projections
do you do, too?

AnonymousID:5m1f1eLO06/11/26(Thu)20:45:35No.536880117

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>When did you grow out of religion and become an atheist

AnonymousID:2FyT+Xj506/11/26(Thu)20:45:50No.536880137

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>>536880016
>what kind of faggots are you
>that i have to be your prophet
so lame, ffs

AnonymousID:A6o/ZRb006/11/26(Thu)20:46:03No.536880157

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>>536869038 (OP)
>Growing up is not believing in things people can plainly see.
What did he mean by this.