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Who's afraid of a godless universe?

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robinrohan
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02-18-2006 2:52 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by JavaMan
02-16-2006 3:45 AM

Many people feel that a godless universe would be a frightening place, vast, amoral and empty of meaning.
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According to my current tentative view, that's exactly the type of universe we live in. I can't tell how the other alternative would feel. One would have to experience it. A religious person might tell us how it feels from their perspective.
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robinrohan
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02-19-2006 7:43 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by Modulous
02-19-2006 5:56 AM

Re: theophobia
If the universe just IS and time is but a dimension then Shakespeare is, and 'always' 'will be' an entity in the universe, so will and my loved ones.
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Shakespeare was a nihilist.
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02-19-2006 9:41 PM 		Reply to: Message 21 by lfen
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Re: theophobia
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
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That's a very nihilistic statement.
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Shakespeare is full of such stuff. There's the graveyard scene in Hamlet, for example. You can't get more nihilistic than that. Where are your jokes now, Yorick? Your skull might make a good doorstop--that's about it.
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