Bill has written a marvelous true story about the “man in the room”. Five minutes you’ll never regret reading.
Find it HERE
Nice work Bill!
Bill Reynolds
Bill has written a marvelous true story about the “man in the room”. Five minutes you’ll never regret reading.
Find it HERE
Nice work Bill!
TheCommonAtheist 
Thanks for the link. That was excellent writing and an excellent argument for disbelief in the man in room who’s not there, i.e. a god or gods.
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Thank you, Jim.
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I believe you have captured what we all have felt. Mine was the “man upstairs”, but the same story and reactions when calling the bluff.
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To me the best part of the entire story was the final meme: Atheism is a conclusion, not a belief.
(Chew on that awhile, Mr/Mrs Believer.)
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I know. I love that. Simply perfect. Conclusion is the word I was looking for.
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The world is full of invalid conclusions. We fallible human beings reach them all the time.
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You sound quite expert. First hand experience will do that. What’s incorrect? No man in the room, or deceiving your kids?
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Yes, I am quite an expert on reaching faulty conclusions, but I have plenty of company. Granted it’s supposed to be allegorical, but I just don’t see what looking for a “man in a room” has to do with justifying atheism.
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It’s a deception carried on by tradition. That part is true.
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Deception is a strong word — deception is willful. Isn’t it more probable that people, being people, are partly wrong but partly right?
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Deception is tradition. People go along with the hoax, same with Santa and other traditions, even when they know it’s false. It is a setback to keep altering g realities. The god hoax has deeper psychological games at play.
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Excellent!
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Well that’s better than “oh good grief”. I had to turn to Bill to right the ship. Thanks Meow.
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Such choppy waters to navigate.
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Extremely well written Bill! I would think part of the reason you would also want it to be true (whether you consciously thought it or not) was because you didn’t want to feel like you were wasting your time all those years but that you didn’t want to believe all the people you know and cared for could have been so wrong and self deluded.
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A very sad story of struggle and mental suffering , how we struggle to be free and wonder if we are still behind more subtle bars , or maybe moved from one closed prison to a more open one. The Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale about the Emperor’s clothes is one of the best ever written because it contains a truth about human nature.
Recently we have had the great service of remembrance ten thousand marched past the Cenotaph , they all appeared to have religious zeal but I suspect most of them were not Christian believers , so what was going on? Was it the worship of the dead? was it the substitution of the nation for the idea of God?
When I was a boy my dad used to get quite angry when the cup final crowd sang Abide With Me it’s ridiculous he would say soon they will be cursing the referee.
When Princess Diana died I watched the funeral aghast — what was going on ? what were these crowds seeking?
Nicolas Humphrey partly answers this : ‘ Trout live in rivers ,gorillas in forests , bed bugs in beds , humans in Soul land ‘ because our time traversing self fears death. Humphrey contends that the creation of the self enabled civilization but also created the fear of death.
How many times have you watched people talking to gravestones? How often do we say I do it because it’s what my wife would have expected of me?
‘ We shall remember them ‘
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I was just reading the wiki on the emperor New clothes. The logical fallacy explanations was very well worded. “The story is about a situation where “no one believes, but everyone believes that everyone else believes. Or alternatively, everyone is ignorant to whether the emperor has clothes on or not, but believes that everyone else is not ignorant. Enter religion…
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