u/Immediate_Long_4265

How can you say for sure there is no god

It seems impossible to prove there is no god. Like you cannot say 100% for sure there is no god. I am not really religious myself but have tried it as I try to seek the truth, but it seems unlikely any of them have the truth to me. I do think there are many good things that can be learned from religions, and that the good ones are generally created to explain existence and provide a framework for living a satisfying life, the core tenet independently taught by Jesus, the Buddha, and many Native American beliefs is that pride aka caring about yourself and your desires above all else leads to emptiness and misery, (This is the worst sin in christianity, the origin of suffering in buddhism, and against the cycle of life in many Native American beliefs) is bad for societal function. Although I find it hard to say one for sure would be true, the same way I find it hard to say there definitively is no god. Religion does seem to be a natural developemnt though,and will be for as long as we do not know why stuff exists. I suppose I have no sense of faith, and imo atheism is a faith as any religion, as you are having faith in your unprovable belief there is no god, same as religon. I will only accept certainty as fact, and if I cannot have certainty I will simply say I do not know.

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u/Immediate_Long_4265 — 2 days ago

The ending is a bit unsatisfying

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion, but I would have preferred if Odysseus didn’t get a happy ending. I think he should get what he wants, Penelope, Telemachus, his kingdom, etc, but feel empty and numb inside and unable to appreciate what he thought for sure would finally make him happy again. Being so focused on yourself and your desires above all else in the real world (deep down we only care for ourselves) (I need to see her) tends to invite only emptyness and misery, so I think the message would have hit harder if that was the case here. And this would fit No Longer You perfectly imo.

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u/Immediate_Long_4265 — 2 days ago