They're real in the sense that they exist, but within the materialist/physicalist/naturalistic framework, they not different in kind from the positive emotions you get from, say, heroin. They exist, but have no significance beyond their existence and the enjoyment of them.
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Your argument essentially comes down to 'I give my feelings this additional religious meaning and no-one else can possibly have any meaning unless its the same as my meaning.' This is just an assertion of your own rightness.
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But it's silly to say you feel sorry for atheists because they must realise their own feelings are meaningless because they'd only think so if they attributed meaning in the same way as you do and then they wouldn't be atheists. They'd be Catholics.
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No, they're not. What's under discussion is whether they have any objective meaning or are purely a subjective experience and thus interchangeable with anything else that produces the same subjective experience, regardless of reality.
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And you explicitly said that your feelings matter more than objective reality.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1005181775667187713 …
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When it comes to my feelings, yes. My feelings for my child matter more to me than how anyone or anything else feels about my child. If the universe is indifferent or the consensus of all thinking beings was that my child did not deserve love, I would still love her.
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