On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 05:46:23PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > > I'm an atheist whose basic emotional attitude is anger against God for > > not existing. > > hendrik, i have to be honest: don't take it the wrong way ok, but i > found this very very funny. windmills?? chearrrrge!! :) it's like, > if you _did_ believe in god you'd be castigated and Sent to Helllll > for having a negatve emotion called "anger", but *come on* man: if you > believe *god doesn't exist* what the heck are you doing damaging your > psyche by bothering to be angry! about something that in your mind > *doesn't exist*! > > beautifully ironic :)
Exactly. You get it. Intellectual understanding and emotions can be in conflict. It's the way we are built. I recognise the resulting contradictions, accept them, recognise I'm not perfect, and get along the best I can, using emotions and intellect as guides. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
