Religion is opium to the mass. Though, a personal God may not exist, many people experience some kind of peace through religious traditions, communities, spirituality, churches etc.
Human beings are intrinsically bit spiritual wishing for a higher power to act in their favour
Since you have abandoned all those things, what is your way to deal with the negative emotions and hopelessness that you face everyday in your life
No alternative.
I see no need to replace ignorant and irrational superstition with anything at all.
"…human beings are intrinsically bit spiritual wishing for a higher power to act in their favor."
I disagree. I have no such wish, and that many humans for many centuries were *indoctrinated* in childhood to have such wishes does not make them "intrinsic."
I don’t feel "hopelessness." And emotions are emotions, they’re neither positive nor negative. If you *act* on those emotions in certain ways, those actions can be "positive" or "negative" for your or your society, but that’s entirely subjective. I deal with my emotions by thinking about them, what drives them, and whether or not it’s a smart idea to act on them.
Peace.
I like Buddhism.
calm and rational thinking for me.
alright, this is what i think about people, and this is where it’s gonna get really weird.
i think human beings are just a very complicated form of bacteria. i think if you looked at
the earth as a living organism, and whose to say it’s not some super organism? it’s certainly
a host for life. and we’re considered a living organism, and we’re a host for life.
there’s more e coli in living inside our gut than there have ever been people, ever.
there’s bacteria that is constantly around you, and your body is fighting off that bacteria
until your body grows old and dies. and then it doesn’t fight it anymore and that bacteria just
eats your body. that’s what it’s there for.
okay, if you looked at the earth as this living organism, and you were flying into L.A,
and you’re passing over these beautiful mountains, and you see the ocean, and it all looks so natural,
but then you see L.A. well, what the hell is that? that’s a growth. that’s cancer. it’s big, and it’s
brown, and it stinks, and smokes coming out of it, and it gets bigger every year. and it doesn’t
matter what you do. you can knock it down with a hurricane, rebuilds. light it on fire, rebuilds.
and i think if you were an intelligent life form from another planet, and you were looking at the earth,
you wouldn’t see individual people. you wouldn’t see house-keepers, limo drivers and stand up comedians,
you wouldn’t see that.
you would see mold on a sandwich. i think if you looked at us subjectively and the way we’re headed,
and the way we’ve always been, it doesn’t matter how much acces to information we have, it doesn’t
matter how much technological innovation we have, we’re always gonna destroy the earth.
cause i think somehow or another, that’s what we’re supposed to do. i think that’s our purpose
here on earth. i think we’re here to eat the sandwich.
Music, Sports, spending time with people I love, art… Pastafarianism.
Athiests do not believe in religion, if an athiest follows a religion, they are not athiest.
Friends, family, hobbies and interests etc… I don’t need a shepard in my life.
I don’t really face that much.
And fact is a good substitution.
Opiates are unhealthy for you.
I don’t feel that I have any more negative emotions than anyone else, nor do I feel hopelessness on a daily basis. When I feel down, I emote or analyze the situation. When I feel happy, I embrace the situation. That’s really all there is to it. I don’t need an imaginary friend to make me feel good.
I’d like to see some research that backs up your statement that human beings are intrinsically spiritual. I think that’s B.S.
I don’t need an alternative. No one does.
The moral doctrine of ahimsa, cause no suffering or death to creatures that can experience pleasure. I derive a certain contentment by following that belief system. But, I am atheistic.
meditation. but I do consider spiritual in a sense. who is to say that the innerworkings of my subconscious are not a sacred place to be explored, possibly even quite litterally connected to the rest of infinity?
basically a shitty job can take its place pretty well.
Condition them via the sound, scientific behavioral protocols of selection by consequences.
Reality and critical thinking.
Compassion.
We do not have such tribulations as you mistakenly adhere to. We left the theo part to the ignorant, be my guest and enjoy your dementia.
Not an atheist, but the only thing that’s true about all of them is that they are non-believers in God. Just like theists, they know it’s wrong to kill, lie, steal, and similar. But they don’t feel threatened by Hell.
By facing them like an adult. The idea of seeking out an "alternative" to religion always strikes me as odd. Like you said it’s a opiate so asking what my alternative is is like asking what alternative I have found to alcoholism. I find it’s better to just not be an alcoholic, or anything related.
I deal with those things myself, and since i don’t have to deal with being ignored by some god, it’s actually less frustrating.
I have emotions without classifying them as "positive" or "negative." I experience disappointment but not hopelessness because disappointment grows out of the present moment while hopelessness is a prediction of a future that can’t be known. I am a Zen Buddhist.
To deal with them.
Atheist really mean Alergic to Jesus, Moses or Mohammed. People have spiritualty, only they don’t feel like bing dragged to a Church, a Synaquogue or a Mosque. Going fishing on a Sunday instead is very spiritual and makes much more sense. Peace, at last. And perhaps a trout …
Philosophy…
Kids are intrinsically wishing for a invisible friends, to act and play in their games.
Atheist just don’t believe in invisible fiends and we understand why some people need those friends…
I rarely deal with negative emotion or fill hopeless in my everyday life…
But I don’t face hopelessness. Accepted long ago, that I get about 80 good ones on this planet, and have used them so far very well.
If things were going badly in my life, I changed it….I didn’t sit in my beer and pray to some sky daddy to bail me out, or give me money or feed me.
I’m sorry if you have negative emotions, and hopelessness in your life. Why don’t you examine that, and figure out a way to change it….
Such as:
If you have a poor job, train at night for a better one.
If your marriage is bad, fix it, or leave it.
If you don’t have a good salary, find ways to spend less of it on silliness.
There’s always something YOU can do to make things better.
There is no such thing as hopelessness…… that only happens to the lazy.
"negative emotions and hopelessness that you face everyday in your life" not that much frequently
I cry if it make me feel better, then I find sth to relax like a walk, reading or drawing, listening to music. When I’m all calm, I’d do sth about the problems
Dealing with negative emotions and hopelessness feelings is part of the challenge of life. I don’t have all the answers but I know how to hang tough (most of the time) and to rely on friends when I need to… Motto: "Worrying is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere" – Hang tough :o)
"Human beings are intrinsically bit spiritual wishing for a higher power to act in their favour"
–I don’t think that’s true at all. And atheists have not abandoned communities, although we don’t have a real "atheist" community.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt true hopelessness in my life, and negative emotions are a part of life. I deal with them myself and move on.
I really don’t have those negative emotions and hopelessness. Maybe you should seek counciling.
Also, if you believe in a higher power, you are not atheist.