If you can contemplate this possibility, you're already proven to yourself that you can exist without god
If you can contemplate existence without god, then you can EXIST without god.
Now go to it!
2007-11-12 11:16:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Edwin - It's not a theory, it's a hypothetical exercise in logic. If you can't indulge yourself, the question may be to complex for you.
2007-11-12 11:26:09 · update #1
Pretending that gods exist for a moment, I guess I'd have to say that I'd go on with my life because it's not like he was very close to me when he was alive. I tried and tried to love him (as a child), but he ignored me, so his death really doesn't matter.
Gods are @$$holes. Think about it.
2007-11-13 05:32:10 · answer #1 · answered by ►solo 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
the whole "God is dead" phrase is constantly taken out of context. Nietzsche never meant a death of god, but more of a death of morals.
"God is dead...And we have killed him, you and I."
"What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions?"
This challenges the idea that religion made morals. Nietzsche argues that if they were made by religion, and because god is nonexistant, we would be in a constant anarchic state.
"Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here Nietzsche is basically saying that, because god is nonexistant, we need to make new morals.
Of course we can live without god. What have people been doing for thousands of years?
I dont exactly see the point you are trying to make.
2007-11-12 21:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by Atomic New Theory 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you say ‘go on’ you made me think that you might be referring to eternally. This reminded of Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence in his book, “Gay Science.” This was a horrifying thought in which people were doomed to live forever only constantly repeating their life second by second for everlasting eternity. I usually hate long quotes, but since Nietzsche is one of my favorite philosophers, I will gamble an exception. It helped me appreciate the finite element of this life which most people seem to fear.
“The greatest weight. -- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your live will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence--even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' If this thought gained possession of you, it would change, you as you are or perhaps crush you.” (GS 341)
2007-11-12 20:23:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course you can exist without God in your life .. just ignore all the ideas about him & don't think about him, but this "exercise" will never change anyone's mind about their own beliefs.
Do you think that for one second Christians OR atheists will wrap their minds around rhetorical ideas like this? What are you hoping, that you can confuse them into believing your way? You just wasted 5 points...
2007-11-12 20:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by Betwixt & Between 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i get what you are saying, because if you can contemplate living without god then you've already made up your mind that you can.
if you can't understand the question then you fully believe in a god ad can't even imagine the world if there was no god.
2007-11-12 19:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are people who would simply stop. They wouldn't get up. They wouldn't take care of their children. They wouldn't water their plants. They would STOP. There are others who would go further. I've been told by a myriad of believers that they would kill themselves on the stop if they didn't have God.
2007-11-12 19:29:20 · answer #6 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Now ,now,simmer down little boy! Go tell yr mom she wants ya! Now run along and let the grown ups visit!
2007-11-12 21:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by sandra b 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My God died but then he arose from the dead and now he is alive. No man can ever kill him again. When he comes back will you join the army fighting aganst him? Cause I will be on his side
2007-11-12 19:23:05 · answer #8 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
aw man, I didn't even know he was sick. What did he die of, an inflated head?
2007-11-12 22:48:27 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL...
Some people won't admit it, but "they" have been living without God their entire lives.
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2007-11-12 22:14:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋