On Purpose

The desire to develop a purpose and/or meaning to one’s life is not a necessary requirement to living that life.  Even if life has no meaning, it does not mean you don’t get to live it.  All 7 billion of us have already hit the genetic lottery by simply being born into the dominant species [...]

Dial-an-Atheist tonight at 7 p.m.

Tonight will feature host Chad Butterbaugh with guest host Joel Klinepeter with the topic, “Debunking philosophical proofs used for the existence of god”. Call in with questions, comments, or to present a proof. We’ll be on the air ready to answer callers.
Tune in from 7-8 p.m., Comcast Channel 57, Verizon Channel 27. Call in at [...]

“I see”, said the blind man.

I see a fantastically complex universe that is endless in beauty, fascination and awe.

I see a delicate song and dance amongst a seemingly endless variety and interaction of life.

I appreciate harmony and peace in life from witnessing death and destruction.

I’ve seen worlds collide and heavens explode.

I see order and structure alongside chaos.

I see underlying layers [...]

Atheist schizophrenia

For maybe a million years we have toiled.
Long it seems we have waited for our present minds to dawn.
Several billion years go by in the blink of a new-born eye.
Yet, eternity will go by even faster when you’re dead.
Why must purpose be attributed to everything?
And why is life’s apparent purpose always confused with life’s apparent [...]

Freethinker’s Toolkit: Fallacies, Part I

The last few threads have been impassioned, which, I think, makes for fun reading. One thing that I think would make some of these conversations more efficient, though—and is just a useful skill in reading and unpacking just about any rhetoric you’ll hear in life, ever—is a sound understanding of some basic logical fallacies. [...]