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sumane12 t1_j4gg8q5 wrote

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>Full disclosure I am a former nihilist and technically agnostic believer. Though that agnosticism just seems like a technical trifle at this point.

Yeah I kinda got that energy lol. I mean I'm all for searching for a supernatural creator, but however far you go up those levels, you still face the point of nihilism. Also any search for god through religion, needs to recognise that atleast 99% of religions are wrong and created solely to exploit the lower ranks of the religion and to create societal behaviour modification.

I think meaning is whatever we make of it, that's the beauty of conscious subjectivity. How do we know that someone else doesn't have a completely different subjective experience than we do? And I think that question is beautiful.

I think if you can't generate meaning from your life today, how will finding god change that? Perhaps you are looking for a purpose greater than yourself? I don't know I'm not a psychologist, but I would also say that just because you don't see meaning somewhere, doesn't mean others don't, and it can be worthwhile dedicating yourself in service to those less fortunate?

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[deleted] OP t1_j4git9x wrote

> I mean I'm all for searching for a supernatural creator, but however far you go up those levels, you still face the point of nihilism.

Well, when you experience it for yourself, it ends up being very different. It's like that beauty that you intuit in the universe that you're trying to relate to me, but imagine that times a million with a sense of love that is so profound and unconditional that you truly understand that this love is what is important.

It's more like life is about spirituality, rather than spirituality is a cure for nihilism or death.

> Also any search for god through religion, needs to recognise that atleast 99% of religions are wrong and created solely to exploit the lower ranks of the religion and to create societal behaviour modification.

Heh. All religions are wrong and all religions are at least a little bit right. For illustration -discovering relativity didn't make Newtonian gravity wrong. It just showed that there was more to it, and that it wasn't as absolutely correct as we had initially imagined.

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sumane12 t1_j4gkqva wrote

All seems reasonable. I hope you find what you're searching for.

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