Why do people believe in things that don't exist?

Why do people believe in things that don't exist?

Because they need to.

Because a comforting lie means more to idiots than reality.

"jesus stop taking all my heroin you fuking mooch"

Guidance, community, and "redemption" are why I think people are religious. It helps to give people purpose and while agnostic myself there's something undeniable about the comfort it can bring.

The same reason you believe that one day your balls will drop.

Looks like Julian from trailer park boys

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Why can't you guys just accept Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior?

>Because they need to.


No, they don't. Why would they?

It helps them carry on their shitty lives.

kek

Coping with reality.

Either because they were indoctrinated from birth or they can't accept cold hard reality. Usually both.

Because terrible things need a higher reason to happen? it's only human to assume so.

>mfw I post a real response and everyone just wants to make jokes and argue

It gives them purpose.

Some people just don't want to accept that the sole reason for our existence is to procreate, and die.

Shitposting 101 my dude

I never understood this idea


life isn't meaningless, nor is it meaningful, it's just whatever the subject sets out to do for themselves

existentialism 101

It's only naive and stupid to assume so, you mean.

bees

And what reality do you speak of? The one that believes the universe was literally created by a big nothing?

>cold hard reality

that's only one perspective... i know many atheists that are optimistic and celebrate reality almost more than religious folk

they aren't naive about the world's evils but they are fascinated by it

You know not every scientifically literate person believes that the big bang came from nothing, right? There has always been something, because before the bang there had do have still been energy... alternative views of the nothing hypothesis state that the world could have always been and there's also the multiverse theory

in some sense I almost a pantheist because I treat reality as is evidenced by my existence as the fundamental entity which isn't a personal god but which is essential to the basis of all things

If no one believed in anything that doesn't exist, there wouldn't be believing anymore. Just knowing.

Would they believe in what they knew? :D

Jesus is a fucking junkie

Because they are weak, user.

You forgot fear - which is the most prominent/pertinent emotion behind religiosity as far as I'm concerned. It's the fear of death that promotes belief in the afterlife more so than anything else.

okay let me ask you something, say the big bang was the "beginning" what came before? Was it nothingness? How could the big bang occur if their was nothing but emptiness before it? There had to be a beginning unless there is some other sort of screwy dark energy or other science shit which we probably will never discover

what if there have been an infinite series of big bangs, and will be infinite more?

then the Hindus were on to something with the idea of Shiva the creator and destroyer

that's even crazier than god talk user

shouldn't he be feeling good rather than being in pain?