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You might find some of the more bizarre fringes of philosophy and thought from history and from around the world here here, among the original thinking of our contributors. As with most pages in The Greenteeth Labyrinth this is not a page for academics or conventional students but for explorers and people who like to play with fresh or off - centre ideas.

Buzzfeed Asked Atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe

If there’s no afterlife or reason for the universe, how do people make their lives matter? Why do we not just lay down and die if there is no point to anying we do. Warning: The last answer may break your heart. By

Tom Chivers via Information Clearing House

August 11, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Buzzfeed" - “The way I find meaning is the way that most people find meaning, even religious ones, which is to get pleasure and significance from your job, from your loved ones, from your avocation, art, literature, music. People like me don’t worry about what it’s all about in a cosmic sense, because we know it isn’t about anything. It’s what we make of this transitory existence that matters. “If you’re an atheist and an evolutionary biologist, what you think is, I’m lucky to have these 80-odd years: How can I make the most of my existence here? Being an atheist means coming to grips with reality. And the reality is twofold. We’re going to die as individuals, and the whole of humanity, unless we find a way to colonise other planets, is going to go extinct. So there’s lots of things that we have to deal with that we don’t like. We just come to grips with the reality. Life is the result of natural selection, and death is the result of natural selection. We are evolved in such a way that death is almost inevitable. So you just deal with it. “It says in the Bible that, ‘When I was a child I played with childish things, and when I became a man I put away those childish things.’ And one of those childish things is the superstition that there’s a higher purpose. Christopher Hitchens said it’s time to move beyond the mewling childhood of our species and deal with reality as it is, and that’s what we have to do.” READ MORE

WHEN TOM CHIVERS was writing for The Daily Telegraph I often disagreed with him rather provocatively, I was always sure Tom is a very intelligent and engaging person but he had, in common with other science worshippers, this unfortunate habit of assuming because he used the word science more than his critics, it qualified him to tell us our opinions were wrong and his right.

The church of scienceology has taken a few hits recently however and its followers are not quite so cocky. Thus Tom has put together a good article here that will not convert anyone but does bring together a range of opinions and ideas that encourage us to think about our position on the meaning of life.

As a non - theist (atheism has become indistinguishable from other religions with their dogma and heresies to me) I took issue with his point made by one of the contributors:
"If I get a what’s-it-all-for sort of feeling, then I say to myself, What’s the point of it all? There isn’t any point. And somehow, for me – I know it’s not true for other people – that is really comforting."

One has to disagree, what drives us dogs, cats, elephants, ants, etc. etc. to survive and strive if there is no point. Life is the point, continuity is the point, and maybe something, some understanding, embedded so deep within is that evolutionary biologists will never delve down to it

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Another example of pseudo scientific scaremongering from Harvard University's Department Of Cutural Marxist Propaganda, using spurious statistics (when they cite risk they do not mean 15% but 15% of 13%) in supprt of liberal / left wing politicians anti alcohol campaign, which is not about health but an excuse to raise taxes. The whole house of cards is demolished here by a writer who really understands statistics and is not ingornant of human nature.

Philo and Sophia - The Page For Lovers Of Wisdom
You might find some of the more bizarre fringes of philosophy and thought from history and from around the world here here, among the original thinking of our contributors. As with most pages in The Greenteeth Labyrinth this is not a page for academics or conventional students but for explorers and people who like to play with fresh or off - centre ideas.

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