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The Beauty of Nature and the Meaning of Life - Without a God

So, as my last post to Atheist Universe went down so nicely I've decided to add another excerpt from another past blog post. Enjoy...

Hardly anyone can look up at the stars experiencing anything but awe (or tiredness), and where a significant few would pair the sightings of great distances, masses and abundance of stellar objects with a genuinely pleasurable sense of big-scheme-of-things worthlessness others are threatened by any ideas of unimportance on a universal scale. Many people feel they need meaning, but the universe provides none. Call all things bright and beautiful godly in origin (as well as being specifically existent for human pleasure) and the 'meaning' quandary is solved... But this is as untrue a conclusion to draw as it is an unnecessary one.

The entirety of the post can be found here.

Carnun :P

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Comment by Carnun on January 11, 2013 at 3:55pm

Thanks, I think we can all second that :)

Comment by Neal on January 11, 2013 at 3:51pm

Great post. I think most atheists understand that meaning in life is what we give it, it is not given to us by some incredibly lame deity. I'm here to enjoy everyday, not to regret what I have or have not done. If I feel like reading the latest and greatest, or writing whatever thoughts are in my head, or heavily imbibe spirits; that's my life and I'm fine with it.

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