Quote:We live, we experience, we endure. What is the point? To live, experience, endure! To love, to laugh, to enjoy life and all its wonders. Sure, bad days and things happen, but overall its better than death, which is a complete lack of sensation and experience.
I totally agree with you on this point even if there did happen to be an afterlife. I try to remind myself even in the worst moments that I am still alive and every experience is a valuable experience.
Quote:Do bacteria, dogs, cats, cows ask questions like this? Or do they just get on with their lives? There is an imperative within all life and this is a desire to stay alive and propagate the species. This is twisted sometimes, for example with certain spiders where the male is eaten by the female during mating, but this is done to help its offspring survive.
I am not sure, I don't speak bacteria, dog, cat or cow, and they don't speak english, but I doubt they do. However our level of consciousness, as far as we know, is unique in the universe. I have never seen my dog or cat admiring the paintings and pictures on my walls so for them they are unimportant. In fact for them their life would be no different if those things never existed. We humans, however, seem to be compelled to do much more then just "stay alive and propagate the species. Why? By accident a group of creatures crawled up out of the muck and said "I want to understand the things around me." We are the only beings that I know of that will knowingly risk that very existence, going against that imperative, for any number of causes.
Quote:Betting all your money on an unproven afterlife and spending your life sucking the cock of an imaginary being is not my idea of fun.
Again I agree with you here, but please don't presume that I believe in any kind of anthropomorphic deity. I see "God", if there is such a thing, as the driving force in matter and energy, that seeks consciousness. The keystone particle that is matter and energy and maybe neither.
