Sthitapragya wrote:What happens if it turns out there is no God? The possibility is infinitesimal in your mind but what if there is no God? Do we then stop loving everyone and start hating them? Is there then no purpose of life at all? Does the sunset suddenly become not beautiful? Does the person you love suddenly become unworthy of love? Basically, what is plan B?
What we shall do is to create systems of deep-control of people - biologically, chemically - as they are mere biological mechanisms and nothing more: robots of the mindless creation, self-created for no purpose. We develop systems whereby each 'unit' is programmed to see reality in a certain way and to have a function within a mechanistic organism overseen by vast computer-systems and a bureaucratic class of overlords who work for the rulers of the mechanism.
Controlled through a centralised system, the Authority will keep and maintain biological units, train them up as biological units, and keep them in service to the Mechanism of production and distribution. The notion of 'love' will have, can have, no meaning, and will fall away. Even the use of that antiquated, provincial term - connected as it is to a spiritual sense of connection to another human being - must be replaced and will be replaced by pure utilitarianism. What is your
function? What do you
do? And what can you do
for me?
'Love' will go out the window and I think desire will require establishment at the centre.
Love?! A vat of poisonous murk. Love is an illusion. Defining 'love' is as hard as defining 'god'. A biological entity, in a mechanistic universe, in the grip of the social/economic machine that holds it, should not think and much less feel in terms of love. Where do you come up with these silly terms?
Love. Ha!
There is no purpose in nature, no purpose in evolution. Has someone spiked your cola? There is simply exchange of energy and material. If I have the strength to get it, I take it. You do not have any 'right' to complain about it, nor even to think about it. In fact, your 'thinking' is a problem since your 'mind' is filled with such ancient and false stuff about 'rights'. You will agree to submit to brain-washing therefor. Come, come, don't dilly-dally. We will clear out of your cellular structure all this ridiculous historical trash such as 'love', 'connection', 'value', and 'meaning'. You say you can define meaning? I say you are deluded and drunk on historical stupefactants. You must agree to be reprogrammed by the System itself that owns your biological rights, just as it owns everything else. You
HAVE NO RIGHTS!
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You might say: In a world dominated by a non-theistic philosophy it does not necessarily have to turn out that way. Theoretically, of course, this is true. But when one severs the connection to the metaphysical life-line, so to speak, (and if one considers the metaphysical life-line as
real and one that conveys the ideas of value of persons, of rights, of meaning, and much else, the severing of the link to *it* has real effect. Consequences. Naturally, you don't accept this. Yet it appears to be true, at least from where I sit.
The issue is of course how the notion of divinity is defined, and how one defines metaphysic. The atheistic platform, of course, can do (nor does it attempt to do) any part of this. It simply disassembles what has been constructed, imperfectly, even at times ridiculously. It links most obviously with the large, destructive state enterprises and it is foolish to imagine that it does not function as I have darkly indicated, above. That
IS where it tends, in fact.