> Atheism and other devout believers in a purely physical, meaningless and non-spiritual reality are pretty susceptible to things like alcoholism and born-again Christianty.
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Here's some nonsense I just made up:
"Christians and other devout believers in a purely spiritual reality are pretty susceptible to things like alcoholism and becoming atheists."
See how easy it is!
>I bet half of these atheist middle class kids running amock on Reddit are married and church-going by the time they hit 40. As soon as their own mortality starts catching up with them they'll have questions that image memes and front-end frameworks just won't answer.
Oh cute, the old "there are no atheist in foxholes" argument. Oh and it's gotta be church-going, you know Christan. My husband was shot at plus watched two friends die in Iraq and still remains an atheist.
>If you're in tech and you're feeling the lonely, empty void, well, for fucks sake, that's what the entire industry is banking on the future being like.
Um, no.
>AA is very effective.
[citation needed]
Can it work for some people? Yes. Is it effective as a whole for everyone? No. Is it better than other treatments? Probably not.
A good point, put as offensively as possible, loses it's luster.
I believe that spirituality has a place, but that spirituality is pointed toward more by Goedel Escher Bach than the Bible, or the Koran, who's description of God is so filled with contradiction (a just loving God that will burn you for eternity no matter how you lived your life, if you don't mouth certain words?!), I'm not really sure what people even mean when they say "I believe in God."
Spirituality in practice, to me, means meditation. And meditation is a wonderful exercise in culling down one's experience to an absolute minimum. If your mind is an organic computer, then meditation is an intentional starving of input. This extreme, austere environment reveals details about the low-level operation of your mind that is fascinating to discover. Empirically, it's useful too, because you can view your experience with ever greater objectivity. And it's mostly inexplicable, in the way good spiritual experiences are. Highly recommended.
