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If one doesn't believe in God (any type of God) what philosophy is there besides nihilism?

>> No.8836354
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8836354

>>8836320
most of them.

>> No.8836358

>>8836354
Who takes the time to make these?

>> No.8836364

>>8836358
Sophomore NEETs.

>> No.8836383

>>8836358
>he came from a website where people are more interested in ball-fondling than productive discussion
wonder where that is

>> No.8836388

well, there's humanism. I know it's not really in vogue around here, but the idea that 'given the fact that we are here without discernible intelligent design, our purpose is to make collective existence as bearable and auspicious as we can' is just as valid as cynicism

>> No.8836391

Look: 72.8% of the philosophers in this survey are atheists, and yet they embrace all manner of positions and philosophies, including ethical or political ones that aren't nihilist, for example.

https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl

Almost half of them (49.8%) are naturalists which is basically the academic orthodoxy these days.

>> No.8836433

>>8836354
Nah.

>> No.8836445

>>8836391
naturalism and atheism are not mutually exclusive

>> No.8836448

>>8836445
Who ever implied that they are?

>> No.8836452

>>8836433
Doch.

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>>8836354

>> No.8837030

>>8837024
>Mormonism

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8837032

>>8836320
romanticism

>> No.8837039

>>8836320
Physics is your god

>> No.8837054

>>8837030
>reading comprehension

>> No.8837081

>>8837024
Not that poster, but can you back that bold dismissal up with anything? I for one think it illustrates (simplified, of course) some strands in existentialist thought rather well, although those kind of images are novelties more than anything. Now, if you don't know about Sartre's Marxism or religious existentialism you are a pseud living under a fucking rock, and you are the one who sounds like he doesn't know what he is talking about.

>> No.8837110

>>8837024
it's a meme you dip
it just so happens that it's also stupid as fuck

>> No.8837113

>>8837110
It's a meme you dip

>> No.8837201

>>8836320
>not creating your own -ism
>unknowingly subscribing to plebism
Fucking plebists

>> No.8837698

>>8836320
>“Nature or Nature’s God” is not a statement, but a name, internally divided by tolerated uncertainty. It has the singularity of a proper name, whilst parenthesizing a suspended decision (Pyrrhonian epoche, of which much more in a future post). It designates rigidly, but obscurely, because it points into epistemological darkness — naming a Reality that not only ‘has’, but epitomizes identity, whilst nevertheless, for ‘the sake of argument’, eluding categorical identification. Patient in the face (or facelessness) of who or what it is, ‘we’ emerge from a pact, with one basic term: a preliminary decision is not to be demanded. It thus synthesizes a select language community, fused by the unknown.

>If The Arbiter of the Universe merits abbreviation (“TAofU”), Nature or Nature’s God has a much greater case. A propeller escapes awkwardness, and singularity compacts its invocation. NoNG, Nong, No — surely, no. These terms tilt into NoNGod and precipitate a decision. The ‘God of Nature or (perhaps simply) Nature’ is Gnon, whose Name is the abyss of unknowing (epoche), necessarily tolerated in the acceptance of Reality.

>Gnon is no less than reality, whatever else is believed. Whatever is suspended now, without delay, is Gnon. Whatever cannot be decided yet, even as reality happens, is Gnon. If there is a God, Gnon nicknames him. If not, Gnon designates whatever the ‘not’ is. Gnon is the Vast Abrupt, and the crossing. Gnon is the Great Propeller.

>> No.8837702

>>8836320
Kantianism

>> No.8837709

>>8837039
fucking cringe

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>>8837039
when did philosophical laziness become fashionable

>> No.8838702

>>8836354
>create your own meaning
>Stirner
>>8837024
This image is autistic as fuck. Absolutely right, but autistic as fuck.

>> No.8839824

>>8836320
bump

>> No.8839851

>>8836320
>define God
>define nihilism

>> No.8839888

>>8836320
you cannot not believe in god, its physically impossible

you may be a retard and be completely out of loop with the rest of humanity, which is why you would say "i don't believe in god" or "i dunno if god exists"

but you cannot not believe in god

>> No.8839903

>>8839888
Trips of truth.

Sounds like a lot of people in this thread need to take a leap of faith.

>> No.8839918

>>8837032
This. Also, that is a beautiful painting.

>> No.8839936

Depends what you mean by "God". If you don't even believe in an "absolute One" in a neoplatonist sense, then nihilism is likely your only alternative. Even then, it's far more complicated.

>> No.8839955

the only logical philosophy for non-believers is sadism.

>> No.8839971

>>8839888
kek. the anti-fedora is as much cringe as the militant atheists

>> No.8840001

>>8836320
All of them really.

Some people just choose whatever appeals to them the most personally.
Other people pick one that seems most efficient at fulfilling some chosen scientifically testable criteria. Some of which are: optimizing happiness and self-fulfillment for the biggest amount of people, equality in it's various interpretations, social efficiency, progress as a species, etc. etc. you name it.
Most of the time several of these criteria are considered important and not just one though.

>> No.8840014

>>8839888
How do you figure?

>> No.8840018

>>8836320
AMERIKA