[Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

[Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 05:46:23PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm an atheist whose basic emotional attitude is anger against God for
> > not existing.
> 
>  hendrik, i have to be honest: don't take it the wrong way ok, but i
> found this very very funny.  windmills?? chearrrrge!! :)  it's like,
> if you _did_ believe in god you'd be castigated and Sent to Helllll
> for having a negatve emotion called "anger", but *come on* man: if you
> believe *god doesn't exist* what the heck are you doing damaging your
> psyche by bothering to be angry!  about something that in your mind
> *doesn't exist*!
> 
>  beautifully ironic :)

Exactly.  You get it.

Intellectual understanding and emotions can be in conflict.  It's the 
way we are built.

I recognise the resulting contradictions, accept them, recognise I'm not 
perfect, and get along the best I can, using emotions and intellect as 
guides.

-- hendrik