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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I have picked that book up intending to buy it at least ten times. I haven't though, and its because even I can't handle a vision as bleak as Harris'. I don't think I'm going anywhere when I die, and I don't buy any religion. But I can't imagine a world in which everybody just shrugged and said "Yep, this is it. This is all you'll ever know." We'd have a lot of fucked up people around doing some incredibly fucked up things. I think faith is an informed decision to reject the pointlessness of it all. Some folks can't deal with the fact that its all random and inconsequential. Even if I don't agree, I have to admit, their belief is sort of encouraging. They're something sort of laudable about a person really earnestly wanting to be more than he is, and actually beleiving he is more than he is. So I guess I won't pick on the faithful so much anymore. I get it, even if I don't buy it. Like Lennon said, "Whatever gets [them] through the night, its allright..."
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Actually, he argues that without faith, morality and ethics (and more moral world) has a better future. It is not all that bleak. Although I don't agree with everything he says, he does a really good job of sumarizing the current trends in philisophical thought.
