But maybe there are different teachers that each praise the people who chose their textbook. Maybe the ones who got set on fire where the people ruining the textbooks. Or maybe hurting the other students. We never know...
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Maybe instead of burning them hes just like uh, you, you, you and you wrong classroom. You're supposed to be in room 403.
And then there's the one kid. He never showed up. In fact, he never even went to the school. He was outside, wandering around, observing. He saw things and they made sense, so he started writing his own books. And instead of making kids go learn his books at a young age, he left his books lying around. Anyone could pick one up, read it, and if they liked it, even keep it.
I am not certain that this post cannot be referred to as a metaphor, but the first sentence is irrefutably a simile. And just to throw in my own two cents, we may also use the term allegory.
Atheism is like being in a big empty room. There's nothing in it, it's totally clean, sterile, and devoid of other life. The room has no doors, no windows, so there's no chance for escape. It's just you and the room. While it might seem pleasant at first, with how orderly and logical everything is, how you're now the center of your own little universe, and how you can do whatever you want since no one is watching; it soon becomes utterly pointless to be in that room as you realize that nothing that happens in the room matters. That being in that room makes no sense. You yearn to go outside, but you can't, because there is nothing outside the room. It's just you, and the room. Forever.
And I was just beginning to admire how the Funsubstance community refrained from commenting any ideological biases. Anyway, since you, guest, put so much effort into this comment, I feel I should provide a few devil's advocate questions. 1) How does the non-belief in a god mean no one is watching? Is society only ambivalent to the actions of atheists? 2) Why does nothing matter? Does atheism suddenly automatically mean nihilism? 3) Why is the universe any more mundane and simple to an atheist?
To be perfectly honest, I feel as thought the arguments you have lain out are just vague enough to fill a straw man.
Wmonohom: YES! Exactly.
Guest: It makes me really tired seeing stuff like your post. I'm sensing you're not an atheist. (sarcasm). So, why don't you NOT try to explain something you don't understand.
Hey guys, let's look at it from Guest's point of view. I'm sure we can extend his logic to both sides of the discussion...
ATHEISM: when you look around, you can see you're locked in an empty room. you only have what you make of it.
RELIGION: when you look around, you can only see rainbows and sunshine and a daddy-figure handing you everything. what you CAN'T see is that beyond your happy hallucination, you're still locked in an empty room. but hey, at least your walls are nice and padded.
To be perfectly honest, I feel as thought the arguments you have lain out are just vague enough to fill a straw man.
Guest: It makes me really tired seeing stuff like your post. I'm sensing you're not an atheist. (sarcasm). So, why don't you NOT try to explain something you don't understand.
ATHEISM: when you look around, you can see you're locked in an empty room. you only have what you make of it.
RELIGION: when you look around, you can only see rainbows and sunshine and a daddy-figure handing you everything. what you CAN'T see is that beyond your happy hallucination, you're still locked in an empty room. but hey, at least your walls are nice and padded.