that is one hell of a question when you think about it seriously but it seems almost impossible to give a good answer to.

Impossible as Jews were not in East Asia in any significant numbers until the Tang Dynasty.

yeah but

thats not the question

what if God chose the Chinese?

That's such a silly question

Wiktor that is an interesting piece of information tbh

thats the qotd

or was

Okay, since the last question was a bit too brainy for you all:

<@&588707615643795456> Daily Question ✝
Is it possible to live a meaningful life without belief in a higher power? Or, is it even possible to not believe in some sort of higher power?

i doubt its possible to not believe in some higher power

no and yes

every single tribe has some deity

@Deleted User What about atheists? What is their higher power? Or perhaps an example of one?

evolution

chance

possibly nature

Nature might be a good option, actually.

What do you mean when you say a "meaningful life" a person can believe in a "higher power" or God and not live a meaningful life

I purposefully left it a bit vague to allow for discussion. I wasn't creating a dichotomy, however, whereas you are.

For me a "meaningful life" is living your life for the purpose that God made you for, his calling for me, and only then can i live a life using the skills and talents he gave me were it is best used

So meaning is not derived from the self but from external forces?

I would say its both, acknowledging your purpose and choosing to follow it

You are not compelled to do what "you are made for"

God doesn't force people to do stuff they don't want to but God made everyone with a purpose

Well you're saying things like "purpose" and "calling", which imply that God is a necessary component to the development of meaning in one's life. I'm asking if it is possible to have a meaningful life *without* God or religion in general.

And from that purpose you find meaning

To put it a different way, are atheists' lives meaningless?

Well from what i said i would say yes

Of course its dependent on themself and there feelings if they had found meaning

If it's not in God, its in there work, hobbies and dreams

Im not an atheist so it would be hard to infer there way of thinking

But a good guess is they use substitutes like there work or profession to get meaning from

I am one, and through conversations with my religious friends I've come to understand a bit better why Christians think that Atheism is inherently nihilistic

Without God there is nothing, no meaning, no purpose, no direction in life

If they know it or not, they substitutes things of the world where God should be

So they impose that meaning that they internalize upon atheists and think that atheists work within that framework

Therefore to them atheism is nihilistic

Yeah i can see that

I don't think all atheist are nihilistic tho, that hasn't really crossed my mind if they are