If you're a long term atheist there's a bit of an assumption that must mean you're also a humanist. As I tend to follow the Marxist precept that there's no way I'd join a club that wanted me as a member, I'm unlikely to just be absorbed. #Philosophy
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There's also my other instinctive response which is why would I replace a God I don't see the need of with a Human centered reality. From our own perceptual neighbourhood we're the bee's knees but I doubt from any others'. Except maybe some friendly cohabiting species, lice, bacteria, etc.
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I might be an existentialist, that was possible in the 70's on odd days. Carving out our own meaning of Liff in an individual response to the heartless Universe. There's something quite Zen about existentialism but intrinsically self centred.
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I can see solipsism over the horizon, the ageing of the critical facilities and it's extremely fashionable right now. But backing away from that I end up in Cartesian certainty, that what I can think can be real. Which is similarly seductive.
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As I have to reconcile eating ice cream and getting fat I think perhaps this is enough self indulgence for now.
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