Official Mental Health Thread

[jwb]

Some female speaker got hit on in an elevator at an atheist convention and cried harassment

Then Richard Dawkins weighed in and said at least you're not in Somalia getting your clit hacked off with a garden shear so quit whining

[DwnWthVwls]

I see you still havent wrapped your head around the argument about objective morality.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

"New" atheism became this, and I think it's embarrassing

from positing Science as the answer to questions of morality and meaning

to generally providing a way for white men to posture as being part of some repressed minority

but by itself Atheism is a rejection of theism and nothing Else

technically speaking, yes, But in general once you throw religion out the window you are inclined to fill that vacuum with something else in terms of answering the questions that religions tend to try to provide an answer for. Cause you might not like their answers, but the questions religious people are asking about our existence are pretty basic human questions that apply to all of us.

That's why the vast majority of atheists are predictable in terms of their opinions on a variety of subjects including life after death, magic, ghosts etc. Those are people who are material naturalists.

Then you have the new age types who replace conventional religion with a more secular mysticism.

But it all follows along familiar lines that generally tend to act as a substitute for the former religion


Hence why I say it's a de facto religion, not a religion per se. It's not structurally designed to be a religion, it just tends to assume that mold via the vacuum that is created by losing the original religion.

[Marie Monday]

Cool beans guys but let's continue this discussion in a thread where it's more on-topic

[WWWP]

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

Cool beans guys but let's continue this discussion in a thread where it's more on-topic

[DwnWthVwls]

Religion is a mental health issue

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Religion is a mental health issue

[WWWP]

Because this thread has shown itself to be a place you probably shouldn't open up I want all readers to know my PMs are always open and I can at the very least be a listening ear and share some things I've learned throughout my treatment.

[Lucem Ferre]

I mean, it's the internet, not a therapist.

You shouldn't open up at all in a place full of random anonymous people where anybody can read and comment on what you say especially if you're sensitive about it.

[Marie Monday]

Of course people should be careful about opening up on the internet, but this is only a place full of random strangers in theory; in reality this is a small community of people who generally know each other quite well. And we are justified in demanding that people aren't *******s about each other's mental issues.