DBTrek wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 12:43 pm
Newsflash: If your plan hinges on The Conservative producing anything except pessimistic nihilism and self aggrandizing, you’re going to fail.
I'm not pessimistic or nihilistic, I'm optimistic, but I'm also a realist... and if people don't support their own self-aggrandizing you aren't doing yourself any good.
I've also lived many lives, done many things with this one life, and I can say out of experience that life gives you a few chances to succeed, it's your choice to take them or not. IF you wish to believe an imaginary entity gives you those abilities go for it, but it will not help when you believe in it too much.
I used to believe in a higher power, then my life went to shit, I prayed, I hoped and I was almost destroyed by grief. I can't believe in something that requires me to harden myself to outside stimuli so badly that it took a decade of visiting a psychologist and a wife that loved me no matter what happened that I was able to have a somewhat normal life... at well beyond my prime.
Religion are for those who refuse to take responsibility for their own action or actions of others, and other things that can't be explained. It is a coping mechanism, it is why we have multiple cultures with "one god" or "gods"... and why we have had wars over who was right. (and still are)
You want to talk to me about nihilism, go for it, but when one person rejects religion and states their own is better, they are no better than what people claim I am here. I at least admit that religion is a farce, and is nothing at this point in time a way to grab money and power (sometimes in that order) If I'm wrong, I'll admit it, but explain to me Rome.