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What is your philosophy on life? Can it be confirmed by science? If not, aren't you religious? :eek:
 
My religious contribution:

Please god not this shit again.
 
Codger said:
My religious contribution:

Please god not this shit again.
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No, this is a very good question. If you're atheist, chances are you have a philosophy on life and for yourself. Since science can't confirm your philosophy you are inherently putting faith into your philosophy... Therefore you're religious, in an odd sense.
 
philosophy like...... what? Thats pretty fucking vague
 
I'm just asking if anyone has a philosophy on life that can be confirmed by science. The reason I ask is because people can be vehemently against religion or people and their faith yet they themselves are using faith in the unknown just as much as anyone else. I think it's pretty interesting.
 
I try not to use faith as much as posible it gets me into trouble
 
it looks suspiciously like the tedious "faith" = "belief" = "having any belief" therefore if you hold any belief about anything at all, you're religious. This has been used very recently on this very forum to claim belief in science is essentially the same as believing in Christianity.

Let me ask you - why are you choosing a "philosophy on life" as the sort of belief that is supposedly parallel to belief in a supernatural superbeing, as opposed to any other belief such as "I believe the sun will rise again tomorrow"

Can you define and give a good example of what you mean by "philosophy of life" and explain what "faith in the unknown" these atheists have.
 
Burning Hammer said:
I'm just asking if anyone has a philosophy on life that can be confirmed by science. The reason I ask is because people can be vehemently against religion or people and their faith yet they themselves are using faith in the unknown just as much as anyone else. I think it's pretty interesting.
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Its a meaningless question because there isn't a replacement for religion. Lack of religion does not leave a void. You don't need to replace it with anything, philosophy or not. Therefore you don't have anything to apply this "confirm by science" rule.

Religious people usually have problems empathizing with non-religious people. They think religion is replaced by "atheism" or some kind of "life philosophy". Its not.

I know you will just repeat your initial statement but please take the time to re-read what I said before doing so.

Also nobody has a life philosophy anyway, whether he is religious or not. OK maybe such people are like one in a thousand, and a further one in a thousand from them actually live by their philosophy. So its a pointless question.
 
I have faith that 2+2=5 and you can't tell me I'm wrong unless you want to be known as a mean person.
 
One argument is that life consists of genes competing for reproduction. Your purpose (i.e. reason for existing) is to be a good host for your genes and spread them around. Thus, if you fail to reproduce, you are an evolutionary dead end.
 
SakuMemories said:
Its a meaningless question because there isn't a replacement for religion. Lack of religion does not leave a void. You don't need to replace it with anything, philosophy or not. Therefore you don't have anything to apply this "confirm by science" rule.

Religious people usually have problems empathizing with non-religious people. They think religion is replaced by "atheism" or some kind of "life philosophy". Its not.

I know you will just repeat your initial statement but please take the time to re-read what I said before doing so.

Also nobody has a life philosophy anyway, whether he is religious or not. OK maybe such people are like one in a thousand, and a further one in a thousand from them actually live by their philosophy. So its a pointless question.
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I never said lack of religion leaves a void. You can easily confirm everything else by science right? So why can't you confirm your philosophy on life? People who are religious may use their faith in God or their religion to qualify their philosophy on life. Yet people will say "GOD DOESNT EXIST!" as somehow it's a means to disqualify yet they themselves do not have an answer beyond that statement.

Your second paragraph also doesn't make sense. This isn't about empathy.

You clearly have a philosophy on life because you constantly choose what you do and it is rooted in something. The fact that you make decisions based up your own experiences are indeed a philosophy. Yet you couldn't anecdotally confirm everything you do yet you can do it and have faith in those choices.
 
Everybody has a belief system regarding life/death, what was before what will be after, if anything.

In my book, one view isn't really worse than the other. It just is.
 
Burning Hammer said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

Science works within a framework of philosophy.
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No, it doesn't. The very first line of that article sends me right back to my post:
"Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy"; it's not science.

"This discipline overlaps with metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology"; again, not science.

"There is no consensus among philosophers about many of the central problems concerned with the philosophy...."

No consensus. It's not even good non-science.
 
99% chances are, whoever you are and whatever your personal beliefs, you believe in things like paleomagnetism, particle physics, wave–particle duality and Sage's flips, and these things might as well be magic to you but you still believe in them for some reason.

Myth busted, we are all religious.
 
JuniorSonGoku said:
This leads me to believe you've never picked up a philosophy book in your life.
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That's fine, my point is everyone has their own philosophies. The fact of the matter is there isn't much separating them yet people would bash or disregard religion for hypocritical reasons.
 
PorkPiePusher said:
99% chances are, whoever you are and whatever your personal beliefs, you believe in things like paleomagnetism, particle physics, the wave–particle duality and Sage's flips, and these things might as well be magic to you but you still believe in them for some reason.

Myth busted, we are all religious.
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And there you go - it IS that same stupid argument as I suspected.
 
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