Materialism leads to determinism, leads to rationalism, leads to atheism, leads to nihlism. Sorry, these are simple conclusions that cannot be obfuscated.
2006-10-25 17:35:41 · 15 answers · asked by Cogito Sum 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right. If the Material world is all there is, then all of us are simply controlled by the random firing of neurons in the Brain. Thus there is no free will and we are nothing more than self-replicating robots.
2006-10-25 17:38:49 · answer #1 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
I think your train has lots of side tracks. You speak as if you have thought this through and that no one on the planet has argued with you. Materialism is only one form of atheism, and it hardly leads to determinism when quantum physics is taken into account. And while I'm in some ways a partial fan of nihilism, it is by far not the only form of atheism. (I also hold to Buddhist ethics of doing as little harm as possible and trying to do what is helpful.) But anyway, nihilism says nothing about free will, only about an externally imposed meaning of existence. I'm afraid you're sureness makes you look a bit silly.
BTW...to obfuscate means to make unclear, not to dispute. Any conclusion can be made unclear, and you've done a bang up job on this one. And I have just provided a summary dispute to your obfuscated conclusions.
2006-10-26 00:41:22 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I hardly know where to begin here. We either have free will or we do not. It doesn't make any sense to say that if we accept a certain belief instead of another that this gives us free will. We can debate whether we have free will or not, but we don't actually get to decide the issue. It's not as if believing in free will makes it so. We either have it or we don't, and what any particular person chooses to believe does not change the fact. Also, there's no necessary connection between opinions on the existence of God and the question of free will. It seems to me that most theists believe that God has granted humanity free will, but this isn't always the case. It seems like most atheists believe the universe is deterministic, but they have a variety of views on free will. I'm sorry, but it's a very complicated and difficult issue. I have some opinions of my own, but you definitely need to go back to the drawing board.
2006-10-26 05:23:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obfuscated, Obfuscated, Obfuscated, .....ism, ........ism, ......ism There! I said a bunch of BIG Intelligent words and I put them together in the right order! That means I am correct and noone can argue with me, right?? Go to your room and grow.
2006-10-26 02:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by steve59 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shear materialism on the expense of soul and mind leads to destruction and there had been war between Islam (The religion God gave since thetime began) and SAM (Sub Animal Materialim) which bread greed, war, terrorism,. IMF, World bank, interest based transactions making poor, poorer and middle class poor. The war is going on from day 1. IMF of that ime wanted to kill Jesus (PBUH) but Allah saved Jesus and IMF today is after Islam and Muslims for the sins which are committed by the IMF and its agents
2006-10-26 00:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by pathowiz 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Atheism allows more free will than any religion. And you don't have to financially support anyone.
2006-10-26 01:22:21 · answer #6 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agreed. Atheism depends on scientific evidence. At present, scientific evidence says that free will is an illusion.
2006-10-26 00:43:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not agreed. Atheism allows free will. We can make all the choices we wish. Do you really think that atheism leads to nihilism? We are the ones that are underrepresented in the prisons.
2006-10-26 00:38:37 · answer #8 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Put down the Thesaurus and stop trying to be deep. - You're being to obvious.
2006-10-26 00:48:40 · answer #9 · answered by chris 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your picture icon reminds me of Yoda.
2006-10-26 00:41:53 · answer #10 · answered by oskeewow13 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋