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How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
RE: How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
(August 31, 2016 at 8:22 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(August 31, 2016 at 8:16 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: What does all that have to do with anything I said?

You had written:

Quote:I felt like I wouldn't die long after I lost religion and became an atheist at the age of fourteen. I still believe that in a sense - or, rather, I tend to ignore the fact that I'm not going to live forever, else I'd get a little too depressed with how fast time goes and that it's all for nothing.

My point was that evaluations such as "life isn't worth living" or "it's all for nothing" put too much store in the deliberations of the conscious mind.  Our efforts at reason can be effective for some kinds of tasks but for others, not so much.  Any time someone writes what I bolded I can't help but think they are over thinking it, or at least misapplying a tool for a task it didn't evolve to do.
But I'm not using it to deliberate on the issue. I'm ignoring the issue entirely. That was the whole point of what I said.
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RE: How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life) - by Excited Penguin - August 31, 2016 at 9:38 pm

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