What tools do atheists use to cope with life?

The same tools everyone else does. They just call them different names.

Atheists recognise the basic fact that there is no supernatural being who will do the fixing. Wherever and whenever there is a problem it will be solved by the natural processes or by the effort and ingenuity of people.

Atheists set their own goals and their personal satisfaction is in the degree of success they can achieve rather than in community commendation or imaginary heavenly bliss. They do good because good is good to do. They do take thought for tomorrow and are concerned with the present but accept that yesterday has gone. It is possible to learn from the past but it cannot be retrieved.

Can you expand on this?

I feel they look at the world through the eyes of the world...worldly attached to what they most are able to see,hear,touch,feel,taste. Some I've known personally have felt that whne they die that's it...life is over and they don't rely on anything in this life besides themselves. I don't feel all feel this way...some leave open the possibilities of something but otherwise all they have is earth based.


I don't condemn how they may feel even if this isn't how they feel...I would really like to better understand them and why they feel as they do but it's so hard to sink my teeth in to some of what they say feeling as I do...but most have been gracious enough to understand that I don't understand them no matter how hard I try. Sometimes it's just better to agree to disagree than ever have any hard feelings.

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I believe the tools they rely on are as psychologists and sociologists found them to be. Ways of the mind dealing with it's environment and culture. The only difference is, theists attribute the ways of their mind to a "god" or of some supernatural "thing." They just use different terms. Athiests just understand that it is simply a matter of their mind relating to their environment and culture. And I believe they have a better understanding.

Thanks MV for sharing that! It's always good to better understand things.

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