I find your post very interesting, because I tend to respond almost exactly the same way when someone asks me why I’m an atheist. The one difference is the “extremely disquieting” part; I find it hard to relate to that. From my point of view, reality is what it is; i.e., it’s emotionally neutral.
Anyway, I find it really curious that we can disagree so completely while employing seemingly identical lines of reasoning. I’m itching to ask you some questions about your position, but I don’t want to derail the thread, or to give the impression of getting all up in your business, as it were...
Reality stops being emotionally neutral when it affects me directly. If I were to wake up to find that my bed has been moved to a hovering platform over a volcano, then I will most assuredly not be emotionally neutral about the discovery (I expect I would experience shock, terror, and lots and lots of confusion).
I’m itching to ask you some questions about your position
Well, I’d be quite willing to answer them. Maybe you could open up a new thread in Discussion, and link to it from here?
I find your post very interesting, because I tend to respond almost exactly the same way when someone asks me why I’m an atheist. The one difference is the “extremely disquieting” part; I find it hard to relate to that. From my point of view, reality is what it is; i.e., it’s emotionally neutral.
Anyway, I find it really curious that we can disagree so completely while employing seemingly identical lines of reasoning. I’m itching to ask you some questions about your position, but I don’t want to derail the thread, or to give the impression of getting all up in your business, as it were...
Reality stops being emotionally neutral when it affects me directly. If I were to wake up to find that my bed has been moved to a hovering platform over a volcano, then I will most assuredly not be emotionally neutral about the discovery (I expect I would experience shock, terror, and lots and lots of confusion).
Well, I’d be quite willing to answer them. Maybe you could open up a new thread in Discussion, and link to it from here?