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JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
It's easy to love and be nice to the loveable. Loving the unlovable means being kind to those you don't really like and helping people you normally wouldn't be with. It is altruism.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@JimboSaturn Do you believe in altruism, Jim? It's an atheist moral value of humanism: goodness of the human being. Isn't the human being an organism composed of dna and carbon chains?
Opposed to the rational perspective of atheism is the belief that mankind is made of a different stuff imbued with divine goodness, the kind that defies intellectual analysis. It is a goodness that nurtures, unconditionally, all that exist. like a mother's love for all within her brood: good or bad, beautiful or ugly, including those who don't love her back.
Opposed to the rational perspective of atheism is the belief that mankind is made of a different stuff imbued with divine goodness, the kind that defies intellectual analysis. It is a goodness that nurtures, unconditionally, all that exist. like a mother's love for all within her brood: good or bad, beautiful or ugly, including those who don't love her back.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@sree251 I have no need for the divine to love people or practice altruism.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@JimboSaturn So, you are neither left or right and treading the Noble Eight Fold middle path.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@sree251 I don't think the Noble Eight Fold path is very religious really , more philosophical. Some see Buddhism more as a philosophy than religion. I don't care where I tread on the path.
sree251 · 41-45, M
@JimboSaturn The western mind sees Buddhism as a philosophy stripped of it spiritual core. The eastern mind, the wellspring of Buddhism, view the atheist as a heartless beast.