jaZZjaZZ54 wrote:

Their world is a tiny drab box in the corner, claiming to contain the room.

People like this, who refuse to embrace and indulge their own fantasies, fancies, longings and hopes due to a simplistic and premature conclusion about the boundaries of reality are doomed to the driest form of boredom and incompletion.

Oh please, put a sock in it! There is so much natural wonder in the REAL (as opposed to make-believe) cosmos, that there is no way the intelligent atheist would ever run out of natural things to ponder, or be "doomed to boredome and incompletion".

Just consider the latest findings that the cosmos' expansion is accelerating because of dark energy. What is dark energy and how does it work? These are questions to challenge to inquiring mind.

Then there is the quantum universe, and the millions of objects of inquiry that reside there.

The brain itself - from neuronal assemblies to the recently uncovered evidence that region of holographic interconnection exist in the prefrontol cortex.

There is the Earth's natural world - and ocnsidering the origin of "sprites" in the atmosphere. Where do they come from? What are they really?

Atheists have more than enough to fulfill them from the natural world alone without having to invent gibberish or make up "daddy God" to be their cosmic papa.

Of course, for the intimidated and weaker-minded, religion will always have value. It will be the ultimate "sippy cup" to clasp through their immature lives, always hoping and wishing (while they sip) that they really aren't orphans in a purposeless cosmos.

Anonymous wrote:

If we take the position of, "There is no God. End of discussion. Go away." then these people will just go on believing crazy religious things

As I noted in a previous post, we can nip this tendency in the bud by judicious intervention. That is, implanting appropriate quantum dot electrodes in the temporal lobes to nullify the religiosity drive. (By eliminating the temporal lobe transients that spawn religious ideation and belief)

It can be done. I have read enough papers to indicate it is only a matter of time.

We would be doing these "crazy believers" a major favor. And helping to preserve civilization in the process.

jaZZjaZZ54 squealed:

If you saw UFO hover over you and then suddenly disappear, you're brittle mind would go into chaos - until the freshness of the image faded and you were able to bury the whole experience with thought repression.

Hate to disabuse you - but been there and done that. Time: early March, 1962, just 12 miles NW of Miami, FL. Time: around 7 p.m. Observed (with my brothers, and 200 others, at the opening of shopping center in Miami Gardens) a brilliant orange UFO that raced in from the south - hovered for 3 seconds, then peeled off toward the north.

Didn't go "into chaos", nor did I freak out. As an amateur astronomer already at age 16, I did negate all the natural possibilities including shooting stars, balloons, planets, or ball lightning. The dynamic and luminescent behavior simply didn't match. BUT - at the same time I didn't go hog wild in the head and start screaming "They're here!".

I left the scene convinced, as I am now, it was an unknown transient phenomenon of the atmosphere. What exactly we may never know.

My point - which evidently you sailed serenely over your head- is that we don't JUMP to conclusions until hard evidence is presented.

Oh, and as for the "mystic thing" - did that too. Delved into all of E. Cayce's stuff and more. The John Dunne "experiment in time" --- all of it.

Still never proved diddly or squat to me, so I decided to grow the fuck up for once.

As you and others should. We might then address the REAL world problems affecting this planet, as opposed to sqauandering mental capital on phantasmagorias for weak or defective minds - where temporal lobe transient hold sway.