- Aug 23, 2021
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One shortcoming of the atheistic point -of-view is that it can not provide real happiness. Real happiness is pure happiness.
The non spiritual and the atheist looks for happiness in "things" or associate it with things. When I compare different cultures, I see that those in the West require so much to be happy. If they don't have technology, their cellphones, their cars, then they are not happy. Compare this with babies that are naturally happy. You can see how they are happy without needing all of these material "things". One quora member explained it as such:
"Babies are happy because they have not yet learned to be unhappy. Anxiety, guilt, and chronic disconnection from life (the three fundamental forms of suffering in a modern interpretation of Buddhist psychology) are all learned behaviors. Until we learn them, we are happy."
Sid Kemp
Atheism provides no way for us to transcend things because it says you are part of the things in the Universe and nothing more. These things are unstable, impermanent, and eventually die off. So why rely on things for happiness?
In short, atheism can not provide true and lasting happiness.
The non spiritual and the atheist looks for happiness in "things" or associate it with things. When I compare different cultures, I see that those in the West require so much to be happy. If they don't have technology, their cellphones, their cars, then they are not happy. Compare this with babies that are naturally happy. You can see how they are happy without needing all of these material "things". One quora member explained it as such:
"Babies are happy because they have not yet learned to be unhappy. Anxiety, guilt, and chronic disconnection from life (the three fundamental forms of suffering in a modern interpretation of Buddhist psychology) are all learned behaviors. Until we learn them, we are happy."
Sid Kemp
Atheism provides no way for us to transcend things because it says you are part of the things in the Universe and nothing more. These things are unstable, impermanent, and eventually die off. So why rely on things for happiness?
In short, atheism can not provide true and lasting happiness.