“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do. For myself, as no doubt for most of my friends, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. The supporters of this system claimed that it embodied the meaning - the Christian meaning, they insisted - of the world. There was one admirably simple method of confuting these people and justifying ourselves in our erotic revolt: we would deny that the world had any meaning whatever.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
I saw an interview with a died in the wool "atheist", as he describes himself. He was born into a Chasidic family but strayed. Why doesn't he believe? What makes him 100 percent SURE that there is no G-d. He is not an agnostic who just doesn't know but one who KNOWS that there is no G-d. By golly, how do you know such a thing. Who revealed this to him??? [Maybe a Divine revelation??]
He explains. "Science". If you don't give him a scientific proof then he doesn't believe and won't act accordingly.
How very BRILLIANT!
So he doesn't take showers either. B/c he has no scientific proof that instead of water - poisonous gas won't come out. He must smell. Really bad.
He also doesn't eat or drink. Does he have ANY scientific proof that that the food and drink is not poison? Absolutely none. Zilch. So he must be really hungry.
He also doesn't talk to his parents or any family members. Does he have scientific proof that they are related to him? None. So he has nothing to do with them and waits for some scientific proof for who his parents are. He must be lonely.
He also doesn't date b/c every woman out there might have been a man who had a sex change operation [becoming more and more popular in our exciting times!!]. He has no scientific proof that she is a woman. He must be even more lonely.
He also doesn't work b/c he has no scientific proof that he will be paid at the end of the month. He must be really poor and bored.
He also doesn't drive. He has no scientific proof that when he turns on the ignition the car won't explode. He must be really constricted in his movement.
He also doesn't sleep. He has no scientific proof that when he sleeps he won't be bludgeoned to death. So he stays awake in order to protect himself.
He also believes that when he sees a building that it could be that nobody actually built this building. There was a HUGE EXPLOSION that afterwards slowly evolved all by itself over the course of billions of years into a beautiful skyscraper. If the world was the result of an accident - then a building certainly can be.
Ahhhhh - so he does bathe and he does eat and drink and he does believe that his parents are his parents and that he will be paid at the end of the month and he does date and he does drive and he does sleep.
So he only insists on scientific proof where he is in a realm where science has little or nothing to say and allows him to fulfill his base desires and do whatever he wants whenever he wants. If he insists on scientific proof for G-d - then he can sleep [actually, it is not the "sleeping" part that interests him as much but something else] with whomever he wants. He can also eat whatever he wants whenever he wants. He can lie cheat and steal if he wishes b/c there is no objective moral code and nothing compelling him to follow any set of laws [except - possibly - secular law].
Using the "science thing" when it is convenient.
NOW I get it.
