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Well, I'm sorry, KM. I don't mean to harangue you about it. I'm just curious is all. From what I can tell you are an intelligent and thoughtful person and I could care less what you do or don't believe. Just as with the atheists in my family - it never enters my mind in reference to how I feel about them. We rarely talk about it nor do I need to talk to them about it. I was there for the progression and I understand how their atheism came about. It's not that I question atheism as a concept, not at all, I question it much less than I do most established religions. I guess I should just accept the obvious here: that the popular connotation of the word faith, makes the word anathema to those who have rejected this popular idea of faith (even though, personally, I think the word faith, in a sense is applicable to atheism). At any rate, I don't mean to be annoying. But it's been known to happen...
And perhaps metaphysical is not the right word, but in essence I mean a unifying order in the universe that has purpose, rather than an arbitrary gathering of space, matter and circumstances. I guess...something like that.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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