I hope you realize that, in refuting all the other major dogmas, you've created a dogma yourself and are telling people to follow it. Just saying.

there's typos all over this.

Finally, I can live my dream of being a pedophile and sex offender and there is nothing anyone can do about it! I mean, there are no morals, right? In the absence of God, all things are permitable. All meaning is man-made, therefore any meaning I create for myself is just as equal as anyone elses. There is no "good" or "better" meaning, to each his own. Wow, this is great : )

Bickering is a waste of time. Who cares what anyone else believes? What's important is that you believe whatever it is you believe, and that you are at home in it. Forcing one's opinion on others, either for or against deity, is a base human behavior. I mean seriously. We can be better than that. Maybe if we didn't occupy ourselves so much with telling other people what they should and should not believe, we could take the time to get closer to God or ourselves or whatever it is that floats your boat. Then, maybe, we can move forward together.

Huh... well then, forgive me for thinking your philosophy is absurdest for following a clever physicist who said

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein

Nothing personal - just the fact that one quote is particularly pessimistic and comes from a seemingly obscure source on the internet that I stumbledupon and the other comes from a successful physicist who is widely known.

You also say:

"Deal with it. One day, you will die. You will not live forever. Everything you do will eventually be undone."

Which to me seems like a detrimental argument - you see Ganapati HAS dealt with it by coming to terms of living a fulfilling life that he enjoys through religion - whereas you are merely stating your opinion again like a broken record. It seems to me that YOU are the one who has to come to terms with how to live your own life. Generally it is frowned upon on society to give into whatever dark disturbing

New Testament at least... Old Testament is merely a record of events

It must be nice living in a world where things are the case just because you want them to be so. I bet if you wish hard enough you'll live forever. hahahahahahahahahaha

This picture kind of bothers me. Emotions are not man-made; they're a byproduct of our long-term development as a species. What dictates purpose is essentially what spurs your emotions, and what spurs your emotions is dictated by what helps you survive and live prosperously. This in turn implies that morality could be worked out by what makes the human species survive the most efficiently and live the most prosperously, all from a naturalistic, secular basis.

Sure, there isn't such thing as a purpose or some predefined "order of things" for the greater universe, but mankind itself is pretty deeply pre-defined by our evolution. We aren't all that varied by what makes us tick, so to imply such individualism (as in this picture) seems like an illusion in and of itself.

I concur, in saying that other religious statements are false, you have also claimed yours to be true. If what you say is true then we are not free at all, rather bound by the "reality" that you have given the illusion of freedom to.

If this is indeed a world free from morals, purpose, and and ultimate goal, then we are free from nothing, but joy and meaning in life.

To all the "believers"...the fraking sun doesn't rise. At all. The earth spins around. Where did you people go to school?? Lol. Religious fights are always funny to me.

Name an established scientific theory that (as you say) cannot be known...

I'd love to hear this.

Moral behavior is relative to external circumstances. It's called Subjective Moral Relativism, in opposition to Objective Moral Absolutism. There is no good and evil, only good decisions and bad decisions. If I kill somebody while trying to defend my life, I'm not a morally evil person. I'm a person who made a bad choice based on an external situation I had no personal control over. Life is gray, our perceptions change based on social structure. Evil does not, cannot and never will exist, nor will your idea of good. Morality changes based on the evolution of society. That my friends is called Social Evolution, it exists, it is a science. All things evolve, biological, technological, and sociological. Whether you like it or not. Look at the theory of networks, and how they evolve to meet the demands of the system. Morality is no different.

What a load of junk. Read some Chesterton.

Go read some Rene Descartes. Understand that empiricism is proven from circular reasoning. It is irrational to believe that the universe is explainable through empirical observation. In fact, a lot of science today is based off of unobservable phenomena to the human senses. Reality is an illusion so you should go out and make of it what you will, but do not belittle it with the arrogant idea that we humans have figured it all out by just tossing aside any idea that we might disagree with when it comes to things that we just cannot know for sure. You should also take a look at Robert Anton Wilson's "Maybe Logic". He is a very intelligent man and talks about everything from religion to quantum physics. I will agree with you though, Atheism is not a religion just the same as Buddhism is not a religion.

neoform your the best!

We were put here on this Earth for one purpose and one purpose only, to serve the Lord Jesus Christ!!!!

Billy Talty, whoever you are, does not know, could not know if what he believes is true. It is pure assumption and it is foolish. I would much rather be a slave to 'Jabber the hut' then to ever be subjected from the flawed and greedy ideals of the one, true, none existent GOD. If you feel uneasy in what this says, 'An hero' yourself. Do not disregard the flaws in religion trust in this new ideal of 'Making Your Name'. There is no Father no heaven; evolution has created you, everyone has flaws.. you could also call that evolution? And to whoever wrote this: Perfect, love it, need more ppl to light the new way :) eat a dick and die Billy... fraking bible bashers

This is just existentialism people. Gotta love it. Not that the universe cares.

Damn straight, all you frakers stop arguing and go out to a party and live it up! I think I'll crack open that six pack.

You know this counts as a philosophy, right?

Coooooooool. By making your statement look visually edge-y, you feel it will be more appealing to a broader audience. Not the content of the words, but the fact that it looks neat.

These comments are funny... all the atheists demanding proof that can never exist and all the theists offering theories as evidence. The atheists rebut with beliefs born of evidence, to which I retort, "We are all free to believe the evidence we choose to agree with. Neither side of the argument can be proven."

Can you guys stop being ignorant and saying absolutely nothing at all. All you are saying is "atheism is a religion" "no it's not". If you want to have a discussion with a purpose, take a step back - define what religion means!! Otherwise you are having a meaningless conversation.

The idea of this poster is to open your minds to the fact that we are autonomous beings, and should act as such, not based on the whims of others.

Great! especially the new 'verb' : rembember

http://www.verb2verbe.com/conjugation/english-verb/remember.aspx

This contradicts itself. What separates us from all other matter in the universe? What gives us the right to create meaning? Who has given us the paintbrush with which we paint our canvas, which must have also been provided? How are we capable of creating meaning? Only through consciousness is any of this possible. It's the ultimate superset of the universe. But you deny deities which, in turn, denies consciousness because there would be no connection through which consciousness is made. Only with some sort of entity outside of everything is any sort of creation of meaning possible.

Also, we are born with certain aspects that differ from one another. We can make our own meaning, yes, but it must match the path we are meant for. It's called diversity! Different brains are hardwired different ways. You can't work outside your means. You are born with a certain shaped cup and the water of life fills it and morphs to the shape. But the journey is what matters the most. How you get the wate

ALL OF YOU WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD CAN TELL HIM WHY YOU DIDN'T THINK HE EXISTS WHEN YOU DIE :)

It seems you're all wrong. These arguments are pointless.

The atheists continue to believe that they are free from brainwashing and can live under their own accord, yet they are slaves to their own weakness as they continue to argue, debate or rather, "convert" those that follow theistic beliefs. Christians are always perceived as the ones obsessed with converting others to their religion, and here the atheists work to a similar end: converting the religious to "non-religion". You change the way you play, but it seems the game remains the same.

The theists have turned faith into a twisted game of right and wrong. Backed up by logic or not, you shame the very things you believe in. Faith is necessary in certain circumstances. I know people in my life that would not be alive today if it weren't for belief. Faith and hope can be senseless and illogical, but at the same time, it's because of these self-contained properties that make it so potent and powerful. Motivation needs constant rene

"Do not let your life and your values and you actions" TYYYYYPPOOOOOOO.

I think what people mean when they say that atheism is a religion is that you atheists are the same sort of annoying crudheads that go to church every Sunday. frak me, you people are a great bunch of runts.

Interesting fact: The book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament begins by saying life is meaningless, and this is repeated as a theme throughout the book. This is not a new concept.

Just a thought: If we need to make our own meaning in life why did the artist spend time and energy telling other people how they should live their lives?

Personal belief: It is in man's best interest to place hope in some sort of higher truth. Some sort of supreme good. It keeps people sane. It is not an average person who can live a satisfying, happy life without believing in something. In fact, I think it is extremely uncommon. Religion has its faults; people abuse its powers and distort its vision, but that does not make religion or theistic points of view evil.

No, we cannot prove there is a God, or multiple gods, or any other type of non-physical being for that matter, but we also cannot disprove it.

You are born into a religion. It doesn't mean it has to be followed. People get mad at others for not following a religion even though they have no choice what they were born into. If you were born the son of a don in the Mafia, does it mean you have to follow in their beliefs? Does crime become right because you were born into it?

1. There is a representative number of Christians in prison, but a lower-than-representative number of atheists. One interpretation of that data is that people who determine their own moral codes are, on average, actually MORE committed to them. This is not to say that Christian morality isn't meaningful to some people, but the suggestion that "God" is the only thing keeping people from raping and pillaging is patently false.

2. There are a few rules that are almost universal to humans, spanning many religions and lack thereof. These rules include: Don't kill people (outside of very narrow parameters), cheat people, or falsely accuse people. These might be seen as manifestations of the moral hardwiring of our species. Humans, like all social mammals (including dogs), have evolved certain pro-social behaviors and aversions. Left to their own devises, people will still adhere to that hard-wiring.

3. "Moral relativism" applies only to behaviors outside of that "don't hurt people" hard-wir

Egarim (mirage backwards? any particular reason for this?), amen to that. Although I may not have been so dramatic or well-spoken when expressing my similar beliefs, I wholeheartedly agree.

I read this poster and thought: "Wow, this poster has some interesting points, and I wonder what I can do to apply these ideas to my everyday life while still holding onto my personal beliefs."

I did not feel any reason to think: "Whoa, that poster is wrong and bad and I must preach my religion." Nor did I think: "Whoa, this poster is right and anyone who disagrees is obviously a brainwashed Christian who is too uneducated to understand anything."

Now, first off let me say I doubt anyone pro miscuous femalead this poster actually thought any of these things I have just said, but... The comments to this poster have just been so absurd I felt some need to throw in my two cents.

Just because someone believes in God or in a god does not mean they have been brainwashed.

Likewise, just because someone does not believe

My question is this, if the world is meaningless what is the point of even living?

In seeing the arguments over the classification of atheism as a religion, I feel it is important to stress that most reasonable atheists adhere to a logical system of "belief" closely mirroring the scientific method. In other words, they believe in things for which they have very strong evidence. This doesn't mean they will never accept God. It merely means that they will refuse to do so until He makes Himself known into a truly verifiable way (no "my brother knows a guy whose uncle saw Jesus in a burrito" business). I myself fall into this camp, and for the most part it simply means that I do not factor deities of any sort into my life or perspectives because they're about as practical as the Easter Bunny. Doesn't mean I think it's impossible for God to be out there. But based upon the data I have now, what other conclusion can I draw? Just as scientific theories are often radically challenged and even overturned, so too does most atheism (at least in the freethinkers I have met) seek

Religious but tolerant<3

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Wow you commentors are really really "deep". Alot of bickering and whatnot. Dont think or "believe" your self to death. lol. A bunch of well spoken

people nonetheless.

If life is really meaningless, give me a reason to exist

if there is no meaning to life, then that means you can't make a meaning to it. If there is no meaning, there is no free will, because everything can be predicted.

Hey, just realised, whenever I write the word 'f-u-c-k' on here it replaces it with 'darn', which in fact would be more offensive to religious people as 'darn' is a corruption of 'd-a-m-n'

if t were that simple there would be peace. its not.. in fact the first 4 words im ready to debate.

dont follow this idea at all.. rather make up your own and respect the next persons too.. thats it, the end.

cant we all just get along.

and PS.

shut the frak up

Yeah this poster is f*cking meaningless and I'd like to watch it burn ;)

I like it. I wish it was a poster.

'Fighting meaningless is futile', - no, as you've just stated imbruing something with meaning is easy, I do it all the time. And just because it doesn't exist outside of our own human constructs doesn't mean it doesn't exist or have profound effects on the world.

Consciousness is real (it's the only thing I can be sure of! *nod* to 'I think therefore I am) ergo meaning is real.

Where do I buy a print of this

This is pretty lame honestly.

I think this is beautiful. I feel that the write needs to be drastic to get his/her point across. Please react and listen better that way.

who cares what any of u have to say,, its all in vain,,,,, big up dude

Interestig that most of you seem consumed with the argument of the authors belief/nonbeliefs rather than looking at what part of the poster may speak to you. My personal thought is that the energy spent in the posts trying to validate the individual's position are an absolute waste of time. When it comes to religion and beliefs, people hold on to them as though their very existance depends upon it and will never change. So stop the futile discussion and go out and make/live your life.

if you're gonna distress type do it by hand, downloading a bunch of typefces from dafont is pretty easy, and you showed how easy.

If there is no God and gods, no morals and the universe is not moving towards any higher purpose what exactly is the basis for your "advice"? What difference does it make if someone else believes there is a purpose and acts accordingly?

What you have declared is that no one can expect YOU to act morally and for those that do believe in morality, you are an enemy whose very existence is a threat to theirs.

philosophical debate aside, this really isn't a great example of typography. too many different and annoying clashing fonts.

Existentialism, indeed. The philosophy espoused here is so superficially sweet that it is difficult to dispute. Freedom, and making meaning for yourself, how beautiful. And yet, the discerning eye sees the fallacy.

Of all the Watchmen, the two that are the most similar are the Comedian and Rorschach. A hedonistic sociopath and a moralistic crusader. And the reason is that they both used the philosophy espoused here to come to their worldviews. The Comedian saw through the charade, the fakeness, the masquerade and realized that morality, ethics, this whole world was a joke. One big, cosmic joke. And so he took on his moniker, even though he told no jokes himself. Rorschach saw through the facade, and realized that this world had no morality, except what we decide to impose upon it. And without us, there is no morality. And so he literally was the Angel of Judgment and Death. He had to be the judge, jury and executioner, because he realized there would be none without him.

And as cool as

Jesus you're all dumb fraks except Ganapati. No offence, but seriously, stop with the pseudo-intellectual talk, no-one on this page knows what they're talking about, you're just expressing opinions under the guise of fact.

What's with this New Age BS? This is the sort of ignorant teenagers' "rebellious" thinking. If every people think like this then civilization will collapse. Nobody's completely free. We're all dependent lots of other people and other things. In order for you to life a huge complicated system, in which you're a part of, has to work. I'm not saying that the current system is perfect or right but at least you are here reading this sentence in (I hope) comfort and safety because of the system. By all means question the system, change the system, repair the system, but always remember that there are other people that will be affected by your decisions.

There is no way to prove 100% that God exist or doesn't exist. I am not here to defend my faith based beliefs with facts. All I know is what has been revealed to me through the word of God and through my persistent faith in Jesus. If one does not attempt to seek out truth it will not be found. However anyone can take fact and hold onto it for a lifetime and insist I must be a fool. The world is flat and revolves around the sun. To me it seems foolish to KNOW there is no God and yet say all is subjective. If I am wrong, what do I lose? I will gladly be the "idiot" on this one. I don't watch fox news, in fact I generally try to seek out non-biased new. Also I embrace existentialism. Philosophy and science, to me (seeing as all is opinion and none is fact), continue to "disprove" God yet show the desperate need for humans to have purpose and to have reason, even if that reason being to disprove reason and purpose. I am glad my comment has bothered so many of you. May the grace and peace o

Funny. I really can't put my finger on it, but are you people chasing the truth or imposing the meaning to be the one who's Right about this?

Why did this get labeled as "Philosophy"? This is more like "the Complete Ignorance of Philosophy".

I agree a little with the Anonymous Dude. And by the way, people are FREE already. Everyone is free to choose what they want to do and what religion to follow. Yeah I know, religion has been used for centuries has an excuse to create wars. But the people who use religion for war are not religious. Because almost all religions have a message of love and understanding, its the people that distort those messages. Therefore its men who is rotten, men who are FREE, and choose to decide they are better than others, men who are FREE but take away your freedom. Let me tell you something, I believe in God, not a specific one, just God. I don't have proof of his existence but I choose to believe. That is me, and my choice.

So yes its good to be free, unless you are an ass hole.

"Remember that to fight meaningless is futile, but fight anyway, inspite of and because of its futility."

That's pretty counterproductive. If you just accept that it's meaningless, then you don't have to fight at all. Yeeaahh.

Also, to go with the whole pedophile example, that's completely man-made. Just remember, several hundred years ago it was common for older men to marry young girls, even as young as 14 or 15, and it was not considered unusual. Is that "immoral"? Who prescribes morality? Man. Who wrote the bible? (Let's see if you can go 2 for 2)

This should just be called Existentialism.

Well said, I like the idea font size as well.

Thus really made me excited because its what I try to explain to myself all the time. :)

This is Camus, bastards!

What post-modernistic puppets you all are... Have a great day! =)

ITT we all recreate a 2000-year-old argument and get nowhere.

I would just like to say that I especially enjoy your font choices for this little rant...

Take a Dale Carnegie course. There is no point in arguing with religious zealots whatsoever.

Wow how original! (not) Where have I heard this before...oh, from France's most famous and iconic postmodern philosopher...

I'll give you all a hint. Starts with an "S" and ends in "arte".

As a student and academic philosopher, I have to say I'm a tad disappointed in this kind of thinking. The main message is good -- live deliberately, you are free -- but this notion that meaning is entirely man-made and therefore nothing has meaning is a grave philosophic mistake.

morals and values are man made, they are made by you. no way of getting out of it. you see someone get stabbed in front of you A) you help victim, MAKING a moral stance that this should not happen cause it's wrong B) you help bad guy, MAKING a moral stance that this is not only a good thing but should be done because it's right C) you do nothing...i guess you've got issues, or are unable to actually do anything about it.

stop arguing about religion and beliefs. this poster should be saying "believe in whatever the hell you want." if thinking that someone else is watching after you, making sure life goes well for you...awesome, why not? if believing that you make your own choices and shape your own destiny....even better in my opinion.

only crappy thing (someone already stated) is enforcing a belief on someone or having a "i'm right you suck" argument.

listen to people, be aware, try to actually enjoy other human beings, throw out new ideas to people but don't tell someone the answer un

this is why everyone hates atheists

Looks like Dafont threw up all over a GoMedia page.

nihilism is fun to practice, NOT

I love this and for those who question it should become more secure about their beliefs and move on.

Can people do that? Most cant, their ego screams at them NOT TO!

I love this only because it's genius and though I do not agree with all of it,

I accept the people who do for I am secure with MYSELF. :)

This is a very strong opinion considering how many people follow a religion. Belief in something has helped people cope with their lives and hope when they think there is no hope left. There is no definite answer. Just as there is no proof that there is a God, there is no proof that there isn't one, or one of many. It's like your imposing your belief as the ultimate truth of the world, when truth is merely in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes believing in nothing helps you live your life more, sometimes believing in something does the same. It's different for each person. This is a very cool poster though and definitely speaks volumes about the artist's creativity. :)

It's a little bit like Communism, it looks good on paper and sounds great read out loud, but in reality, it just doesn't work.

God is the singularity from which the Big Bang erupted, that from which the universe was born, and thus, everything the universe now holds.

Disregarding the attempts at intellectual postulation in the comments section..This poster is great- inspiring complete liberation from chains which bound many. I think Sartre would smile.

You people and your bickering are giving Atheists a bad name; because of you and people like you, "Atheist" has become synonymous with "Dick".

Thanks, guys.

you suck at spelling.

I'd buy this on cafepress.

When typography is involved, proper spelling is a must.

None of this is about intellect or higher education. What are you trying to prove? Your awaiting someone's evidence that there is a god? What the frak does that mean? I have no personal preference to any religion. I'm just happy to walk outside and breath fresh air. I'm amazed when the seasons change. I'm in awe of the world around us. Sure I have questions, but they will remain unanswered until I die. So give it up. Believing in God literally saves people's lives. Stop trying to take that away from them.