I'm sorry if this debate has caused you any emotional problems
But heck, when you die you'll be back where you were in 1837, in 1700, in 4000BC. You weren't complaining then, and you obviously have no memory of it being bad. You might enjoy it
Nobody really wants to die (suicidal citizens are not taken into account in this statement). It's a tough concept to deal with. If a fairytale land comforts you, that is fine. If belief in an illogical father-figure in the sky comforts you, that is fine. If the flying spaghetti monster comforts you, that is also fine. That is personal to you, and we shouldn't try to strip you of it. It only stops being fine when you push it onto others as being truth, which I assume you wouldn't do. I find the story of the universe to be marvellous, far greater than any god story. I'm glad that I even had the chance to live. Trillions upon trillions of quarks and electrons forming atoms whilst being blasted out into the far reaches of space, clustering together into astronomical structures, falling under their own gravity, igniting, throwing off tonnes of heavy elements which formed large solid spheres and under incredible circumstances lead to combinations of atoms which could self-replicate and were subject to evolution for billions of years until what we have now- the tiny, fundemental "stuff" of the universe arranged in such a way that it is able to look back at the rest of the "stuff" and think "this is beautiful. This is me."
Emotional moment for me right there
But heck, when you die you'll be back where you were in 1837, in 1700, in 4000BC. You weren't complaining then, and you obviously have no memory of it being bad. You might enjoy it
Nobody really wants to die (suicidal citizens are not taken into account in this statement). It's a tough concept to deal with. If a fairytale land comforts you, that is fine. If belief in an illogical father-figure in the sky comforts you, that is fine. If the flying spaghetti monster comforts you, that is also fine. That is personal to you, and we shouldn't try to strip you of it. It only stops being fine when you push it onto others as being truth, which I assume you wouldn't do. I find the story of the universe to be marvellous, far greater than any god story. I'm glad that I even had the chance to live. Trillions upon trillions of quarks and electrons forming atoms whilst being blasted out into the far reaches of space, clustering together into astronomical structures, falling under their own gravity, igniting, throwing off tonnes of heavy elements which formed large solid spheres and under incredible circumstances lead to combinations of atoms which could self-replicate and were subject to evolution for billions of years until what we have now- the tiny, fundemental "stuff" of the universe arranged in such a way that it is able to look back at the rest of the "stuff" and think "this is beautiful. This is me."
Emotional moment for me right there