| HAHA I Am entering this kinda late but I have actuilly read every post here. First off I am an athiest, or very close to one. Buhda is not a proxy god... I don't think anyone worships any buhda but try to be like he was, that is the essence of Buhdism. You want to be mindful of your being and how it interacts with the world. In Japan you can leave a running laptop on the bussest intersections of tokyo and no one will touch it. The funny thing is... I am an open misanthrope. I don't put any value on human life. I don't see any value on human life... I don't see anyone placing any value ever. Religous leaders are fools... In the bush election where were the leaders of faith saying that everyone should vote for him becasue hes pro life while knowing that he started 2 wars and killed people... and of course knowing his record for the death penilty in Texas. How much does anyone care about human life? We see rape murder death, mass killing, mass displacement, epademics such as AIDs and small pox, chemical weapons.. common... we want to die. But we don't want to die alone. I have whitnessed people use religon to suport racial profiling, murder and even rape. How can we possibly forget the Crusaids that are so... misinterpreted. England sent people over there under the popes orders to kill everyone. Nice interpretation of the basis for western religon. SO no god... or if there is a god... it doesn't care about how we treat each other and what we do... so what is there?
The law is stupid... if I have to kill to eat I will kill. If someone is atacking me I will kill that person and I will not think twice about it. I however don't run around killing people becasue I have a pang where they may actuilly do something to benefit me. It's horrable and selfish and just about everything bad... however if I killed someone and did not need to it would weight on my conscience. I care about bettering myself and I know when I do something wrong. It's the "gut" fealings that you get when you know you have done something you shoudln't have. It's not remorse... you can have remorse and still not feal bad.... take a loved one dieing. If you didn't do something that you wanted to do... you feal horrable about it, but you didn't feal bad before the person died. Basicly... I get morles from things that I do and I try to do good things. It's not cuz of a diety but becasue I want to better myself personally. |