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It sounds like a valid atheist manifesto.
by nurettin 4y ago
It sounds like a valid atheist manifesto.
- system2 4y agoUltra rich people don't need religion. Religion is for the people in need.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoOr for people who feel guilty about how they got rich and need to feel forgiven or something.
- rbut 4y agoThe rich are no different to the poor. They can't take their wealth with them.
- KronisLV 4y ago> The rich are no different to the poor. They can't take their worldly possessions with them to the next life. This holds true, assuming that there's an afterlife of any sort. If there isn't, then the rich would simply live lavish lives, before ceasing to exist. Same outcome as for the rest of people, rather different experience during their lives.
- refurb 4y agoMan cannot live by bread alone.
- JasserInicide 4y agoSome people are so poor, all they have is money
- nurettin 4y agoIt is a thankfulness meditation, which is a basic ingredient for feeling content. And rich people need to feel content as well. It is sort of like prayer, but to actual real beings. That's why I thought it could be an atheist manifesto.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. Last thing we need here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- system2 4y agoMy apologies. I was simply responding to a religious argument but got carried away.
- bowsamic 4y agoHe was a Zen Buddhist (in the Soto Zen tradition, his teacher was Kobun Chino Otogawa). I wouldn't outright say he was an "atheist", although I'm sure some might disagree
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (and definitely not religious flamewar tangents, which this already crosses into)
- nurettin 4y agook can you please stop with the weird ass accusations?