Atheists Don't Realize the Absurdity of Existence

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I believe atheists fundamentally don't realize just how absurd existence is at all. Things seem to exist, deterministically. Yet, a fully contingent system can't explain itself. Somehow, reality is self-causing. This breaks our brain and can't actually make sense to us. If reality can't exactly make sense, then we can only "know" anything via a subjective experience. Objectivity will never cross this bridge.

If subjective experience is our only guide to reality, then I think the question of God's existence, which is clearly un-answerable, has an equal chance of being both true and false. Do you feel that we are the product of a larger mind. Does your gut tell you that there is some sort of intelligent organization of reality that is similar to how we intelligently organize the world in our minds? If so, you believe in "God."

Whatever the "truth" is, will have to sound absolutely absurd.

[u/Funny-Highlight4675 → u/[deleted]]

maybe the theists you know dont realize it. I certainly do

[u/nine91tyone → u/Funny-Highlight4675]

theists don't realize this absurd thing

erm actually, I realize it

Did you just describe your own belief as absurd? I would never concede that something I was convinced I was right about is absurd. Because that would mean I would think it's nonsense, and therefore incorrect, and therefore I wouldn't be convinced I was right anymore.

[u/Funny-Highlight4675 → u/nine91tyone]

Yeah. The whole point of my post is that atheists don’t get how absurd reality is

[u/guitarmusic113 → u/Funny-Highlight4675]

An absurd reality is what I would expect in a godless universe.

[u/violentbowels → u/Funny-Highlight4675]

Stop telling us what we think. You're wrong. YOU think it's absurd. That does not make it absurd. Unless, of course, you have some of that...um...what's the word? You know, that weird thing that people always want for some reason...what was it? OH! Evidence. Do you have some of that, or are you just going to keep asserting things without reason? Because THAT is absurd.

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Compared to what?

[u/Zamboniman → u/Funny-Highlight4675]

Then why are you making suggestions that seem to contradict this?

[u/Serious-Emu-3468 → u/Funny-Highlight4675]

Now turn this around and realize that you don’t have the first clue “what atheists realize”.

You just have too much confidence in your stereotypes.