The universe owes us no reason to be happy. Being happy is just a by-product humans have created. The only reason to believe in something is because of evidence. This is the only reason that makes any sense.

Again, you're just restating yourself. I am asking why this is.

Oh? Doing something to be happy makes perfect sense to me.

Done with you.


#dumbniqqas.

So much for the light-hearted discussion that was going on when I last checked this thread.

Alright then... Cthulhu fhtagn!

That is unfortunate. You speak dogmatically about the necessity of evidence and yet are unable to produce a shred of evidence for your claim that evidence is the only legitimate reason to believe something, thereby showing the inconsistency of your own beliefs.

Once you accept a lie, the truth is forever your enemy.

#dumbniqqas

So when confronted with your own inconsistency, you resort to cliches and vulgarity. Lovely.

Oh and just for the record, I'm a gnostic atheist. I was just wondering if you actually had any intellectual honesty in you. It appears not. Have a nice life.

Gnostic? Meaning... you do believe there's evidence of god? Or... what?

Cliche?


When you accept one thing without evidence, you're more likely to accept more withouth evidence.
Believing things without a good reason can be bad for yourself (losing money on scams, 'snakeoil', etc), for people close to you (parents killing their kids by relying on faith healers) or other people in your country (Mormons voting for proposition 8 in California).

A convenient lie is no substitute for the truth. It would be nice to believe we live forever, or fairies exist at the bottom of the garden, or praying can fix all my lifes ills, but these are not true. At some stage we need to grow up, take accountability for our lives and accept reality, not believe the convenient lie.

Refresh my memory on proposition 8? Heard of it but don't recall the details.