I have been discussing athiesm with my brother on email, he is thiest i am strong athiest. I post this because i know that in becoming an athiest is sometimes hard and traumatic but it is for the better.

For me coming to terms with the nonexistence of an after life and and finding a reason to go on as a living being was exceptionally difficult. A person cannot really be an athiest and believe in an afterlife, they also find it difficult to find purpose in life.

If you can make it through the "Agnostic" or middle ground position, without going insane
and realize like i did that there is no god/or after life then you will be ok, but what helps is to have a purpose. I have a beautiful wife and a genius one year old son, they keep me going.

To me, Plato's 'Euthyphro' still gives us the quintessential outline of why any God must have been made up by humans. The idea is that, unlike all other objective facts that we know about the world, for some reason it's up to humanity to specify all of God's attributes a priori, or by definition. Although Socrates was talking to Euthyphro about 'piety,' any suggested attribute of God can be equally called under question in the same way. We define 'the sun' to be something like 'the fiery ball in the sky,' but this definition is always open to revision based on further investigation in a way that the concept of God is not. And the (epistemic) difference between these two concepts is very important. Consider the following:

I would first like to say hello to everyone on this net work and how great it feels to feel like I belong for the first time. Thank you rational response squad I have not done my research so I do not know how long you have been around, and who all you are connected to; what I do know is you did a nightline debate that helped me find you. From what I have heard on myspace, and the debate I am a very devoted follower and firm believer in mostly everything you have said, may all atheist quote Mr. Spock "Live long and prosper."

Please feel free to contact me for any reason I am not sure how often I will be on here but I will reply to any reasonable, question, comment, or critique.

Hello to anyone who is reading this! I'm Nikki, a pretty much life-long atheist living down in sunny (and often irrational) Florida. A little about me: I'm 20, I have a BA (it's only three weeks old so it is still a big deal to me . I majored in English and Political Science and minored in African Studies. I'm currently taking a year off before I start my graduate work with the goal of getting a PhD in English. I want to be a novelist and English prof., but I am also passionate about several social issues. Namely, I work to dispell negative stereotypes of Africa and to promote eating disorder / poor body image awareness and recovery (I'm a recovering anorexic). On that note, I have a YouTube series about ED recovery under the username bordersofmylife.

Seriously, WHAT is this??? Is this guy just a common troll, or is he really that insane?

I notice there are whole some theists that lie about atheists, what it means to be an atheist, what atheists believe in, etc...

And of course they will jump through hoops to justify their lies (Bodhiharta comes to mind. Bodhiharta will lie about about anything, so it's not surprising), Or just ignore any retort (Nonbobblehead).

It always bugged me as to why would these people be so dishonest to others.
Then (The afformentioned) bodhiharta (Hence known as "bod") said:

Guilt is not good for survival.

That's it! They don't want to feel guilty.
"aww gee, it would be horrible for this guy to burn in hell forever, but he's an atheist, and atheists are god-hating-baby-raping-idiots"

for people new to samkhya school of thought

they can refer ::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya

the science and other developments in recent time has forced learned indian people(hindu) to once again samkhya system of hindu thought !

its a nice link to american atheist here!
i think it will offer a new source of knowledge as susan asked for!

So I was thinking about how theists love to fallback on their "faith" once logic and reason has obliterated their weak arguments in a debate setting. You know what I'm talking about, it goes something like: "Well Mr. Atheist, while you have a good point logically, it's really quite irrelevent. My strong FAITH in (insert imaginary friend here) is all I need."

It dawned on me that this situation is no different than that of an adult asking a child "Why did you do that?", and the child's obstinate reply of "Because!"

"Because why?"

"Just because!"

ad infinitum

Because. That's what it boils down to. Because. Obstacles to medical progress, religiously motivated war, "honor killing", unneccesary guilt, oppression, sexual repression, women treated like dogs.