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Maybe only in one's own mind. Are you implying transcendent meaning is an objective thing?
by bh42222 15y ago
Maybe only in one's own mind.
Are you implying transcendent meaning is an objective thing?
- Apocryphon 15y agoI mean that ascribing meaning to have metaphysical, supernatural, transcendental effects that exist outside of one's mind would be counter to an atheist worldview.
- saraid216 15y agoAtheists only have one worldview?
- tkahn6 15y agoThat's not what he said.
- Apocryphon 15y agoI don't mean to paint all atheists with one brush, I'm just trying to explain (one possible) reason for why you can't have it both ways: ...it seems to me that non-religious people keep trying to simultaneously claim that the universe is merely a semi-random collection of atoms and energy, AND that we can find transcendent meaning in it. So I interpreted that as the original non-atheist person meaning transcendental as metaphysical or supernatural in his statement.
- bh42222 15y agoI would agree with that. I personally take "transcendental" to be describing a purely emotional experience. But I agree, for most other people it means super natural.