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by zarathustra » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:40 pm
mr ksolway,
I don't think you are an atheist - really, but rather, a naughty little boy, or girl or... your terminology runs deep with so many godly little poisons: spirit, ultimate, bla, bla, bla...these words like god mean nothing, point to nothing and are nothing. they are simply bits of little nothings that have fallen off the great nothing. another way of putting it: it was that god-sick, anaemic, syphylis ridden, horse hugging, sister loving, pedo recluse nietzsche who once said we have killed god, but still love his poisons...sorry, but your cup runeth over my friend...
the following are a few words written by a silly atheist friend of mine: 'suppose you learn that tomorrow you are going to die. probably death comes to you under the cultural sign of the uncanny, the ghostly, the lonely, the loss of everything, the unfair, the terribly sad, the waste, useless extinction and so on. so naturally it brings on a cultural cringe. but now look more closely at death. it would appear different to an ancient viking, or eskimo, or samurai, medieval monk whatever bla, bla, bla. look more closely and the sign of death becomes translucent light-weight - a floating signifier. after you have set aside cultural stories, cultural prejudices and religious waffle that you tell yourself, then you ask - what the fuck is it? the strictly undecidable, the final signless, and as such it is not all that unfamiliar, it is just another instance of the moments of inpenetrable mystery we live through every day. each moment is open-ended, the moment of death, just another moment. the best thing atheists can do with such moments, is to yeild themselves to them trusting themselves to the mystery, in that way they learn to care for life more than its meaning.....'
atheists have another problem: language, which, ironically, has developed itself out of and in relation to the church: the great nothing's representative herebelow....it has even shackled science...irony of ironies: how, as atheists, can you dispose of nothing? ah, never mind, have faith my friend..opps!
god + atheism = nothing. ya can't have one without the other. true or false?
written by lightening for your edification