tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post8888219599977971815..comments2024-01-29T01:22:14.621-08:00Comments on Makarios: Do atheists use Doctors?Thesauroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764946987133813099.post-41593049429163438752009-05-26T19:53:30.530-07:002009-05-26T19:53:30.530-07:00Hi Makarios,
I was intrigued by the title of this...Hi Makarios,<br /><br />I was intrigued by the title of this blog entry. It wasn't what I thought it would be, but it was intriguing nonetheless.<br /><br />I am an atheist. I find such joy and wonder and beauty in the world that I sometimes feel I will explode with the exuberance of it. I'm 41 years old and I've lived a good life - an amazing life, one that if you'd told my 10-year-old self I'd be living, I'd never have believed it.<br /><br />I see from your profile that you, too, have lived a fine life. We're both lucky. I'm amazed and (I almost said grateful, but of course I have no one to be grateful to) astounded at the good luck that has brought me here, tonight, to be typing to you. <br /><br />I wish I could defend the cruelty of some of the atheists who write to you on this site, or at least make some comment about the philosophy of atheism, but of course there isn't one. An atheist can choose to be a horrendous person, and some do. I choose to be a good person, not because of my atheism, nor in spite of it, but simply beside it. <br /><br />I do, incidentally, realize that I'm a dead man walking (well, I'm not walking right now, but you know). I won't live forever. I was dead for the vast majority of the four and a half billion years that came before me, and I suspect the universe will go right on without me for a few billion more with hardly a tear shed. And that's OK. I have no expectation of surviving this world, and while it sure would be nice, it's just not in the cards for me. The laws of physics (so far as I can tell) simply won't allow it. And, as we all know "You canna change the laws of physics."<br /><br />Good luck to you. I hope the other atheists who visit your site treat you kindly, and I hope you do the same. Come visit my blog any time; I'd love to hear from you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01344477940865178097noreply@blogger.com