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Old 08-18-2014, 03:49 PM   #113 (permalink)
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Everything you're saying seems like a giant delusional state of denial if anything. If you're an atheist that pretty much means that everything is equal due to inevitable death. Your own personal human value systems and subjective meanings you're trying to reason with here are meaningless within themselves. Whether you're bouncing off the walls with pleasure and happiness or soaking in a pit of agony and depression, you are not superior to other human beings because humans are inferior to everything within themselves and the concept of what is superior is not limited to human beings. I'm an atheist and coming from a nihilistic world view when I say all of this. Inevitable death defeats pleasure.
Wouldn't nihilism mean that the very concept of "superiority" was a meaningless concept invented by humans with no inherent value outside of each individual's personal beliefs and experiences? Which would of course make Matt's claims of superiority nonsensical and worthy only of derision and poo flinging.
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