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Originally Posted by Herkdriver
You have, in my opinion, was it called "hedonic adaptation".
You don't think a new born child is anything special, or a mountain range or an ocean or the vast evening sky...you're bored with it...
"big deal"
"life is cheap"
"we're nothing special"
"it all just happened"
This is why the Atheistic point of view is something I detest.
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This is not "the atheistic point of view". As an atheist, I don't believe that any of those things are created by a God, but I do acknowledge them as special phenomena, humans moreso than mountain ranges and oceans. Humanity is, as far as we know, a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in the universe. This is different from the fact that a person might be so used to it that it is no longer special to them, that it has become mundane.
The uniqueness of such a phenomenon as us, the tendency to become used to those things which are constantly around us, and the existence of god, are all pretty unrelated to one another.