Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Well it's like memory. If you lost your entire memory from present to the past and could only live in the future most of what you've experienced would have been meaningless. Other than changes you affected on the world anything you've done for yourself (like enjoyed a movie, gone on vacation, etc.) would have been pointless, since you can't reemember them. In the same way I see life withoug God as utterly meaningless. Yes atheists can enjoy life while they're living it but when they're gone that's it. And the university will continue on for billions more years without a care for htem. So, if they can't carry on in the afterlife or heaven or whatever it just seems so pointless.
Totally untrue. If this is all we get, if this is all we can possibly know, we must savor it. The point is that soon it'll be gone. You could live to be 100, you could get hit by a car on the street tomorrow. And then it would all be over. Religious types can reassure themselves by telling themselves that regardless of what happens to them here, they still have all of eternity to look forward to. Their lives can be totally pointless and unproductive, aside from their devoition to Jesus, and it's alright, because they have infinity in which to do other things. For those that don't get an afterlife, they're left picking and choosing how best to live out things with the hand they've been dealth before the axe falls, every single day of their finite life. Yes, we all must do things we don't like (job, etc) in order to survive, but fun and enjoyment should be had whenever possible.