What are some of your main sources of religious or spiritual literature to help me understand thinking from a materialist perspective?
I've always thought of Atheism as "Don't think about God until you are on your death bed and then pray reverently to try to comprehend the unknown as it is staring you right in the face" is this the case?
I mean, non-existence is kind of a terrifying concept for me, how to you rationalize believing in non-existence of consciousness when facing death?
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You don't have to be a complete materialist to be an atheist. Atheist just means not believing in god. For example there are plenty of atheists who think that consciousness might be beyond any materialist explanation. Read about the hard problem of consciousness.
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When Gods have given you signs in real life after working with them, then how do you explain synchronicities or coincidences?
Like I was listening to internet radio after working with a sun God, and then songs with the title "Sun" in the title appeared 3 times in a row (I was listening to di.fm, the trance radio station), or I worked with King Paimon for money when I needed it and 5 minutes after I finished I received a phone call about a financial aid rebate and where to send it to.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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What do you do if you think Lucifer is screaming at you to not convert to Atheism? It seems very convenient to be able to dismiss everything as psychosis and my life would be easier, but something that I perceive is at the core of my soul is telling me not to become an atheist.
Is that psychosis?
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I don't know what I would do and I am sorry if that is happening to you, but if it is, I think that it is probably some sort of psychotic episode and you should consult actual mental health professionals.
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I do, my great grandmother was a psychic and I've been communing with beings all my life.
I used to see ghosts.
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what if he's doing reverse psychology?
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You're not supposed to listen to that guy also
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You see, most people don't need to make factors up to attribute these to because they aren't schizophrenic
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Rick and Morty and Penn and Tellers Bullshit, I've heard that atheists consider it there scripture
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It's a terrifying concept to everyone, especially atheists. It seems like the works you'd be most interested in are those by existentialists, such as Camus and Sartre. Specifically, Camus' "the stranger" is a book highly recommended for tempering this exact anxiety.
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neighbor wut?
its more like: "hear a bunch of fairy tales growing up and naturally categorize the shit in church alongside them".
wut? non-existence is the least terrifying thing possible. plato mentions this in the phaedo, since you were looking for sources.
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You do understand that all religions represent unconscious symbols that represent aspects of nature?
Is that an atheist perspective?
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that sounds like jungism?
as long as you explain it with evopsych
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Well the first thing we tried to comprehend and form symbols around were planets and nature, to try to explain things we couldn't comprehend or understand.
We view something as spiritual because it follows and reflects this symbolism and brings us back to a time when we based our understanding of the world based on the planets and nature. Even modern day or newer religions such as Christianity are nature worship. There are parallels in every religion, do you know how many religions have a Noah in the Ark flood myth, even tower of Babel myths are common.
It's because it reflects aspects of the unconscious psyche.
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That seems like an overly simplified view of religion that even I as an atheist find insulting.
But also this conversation reminds me of talking to bussy boy so imma cut out now.
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