(September 11, 2016 at 1:57 am)Little Rik Wrote: Take the people who get rich.
They take risks.
They never wait for the evidence that they will succeed or not.
Of course there is an other way to get rich.
You can struggle life after life for 100 or 200 lives.
Sooner or later the prosperity will come.
I had to come back to this because it shows just how stupid your thinking really is. Rich people take risks. Yay. Does that mean that if you take risks you'll become rich? No. Far more people end up with nothing to show for the risks they've taken. Everybody takes risks. I'm risking my eternal future according to you by remaining a materialist. For me, it is a risk worth taking. Will I be rewarded for having taken this risk? Only in the sense that I won't waste my life following some god or other, or doing silly rituals every day in hopes of a better next life. But that's not the reward you're thinking of. You can only see reward in the benefits you believe you get from your lifestyle. The Christian is the same way. As is the Buddhist. And the Taoist. And the Hindu. And the Sikh. And on and on and on. Is everybody going to get rich because of the risks they are taking? The answer is obviously no. So 'take risks' is not only bad advice, it's nonsensical because EVERYBODY takes the type of risk you're talking about. The difference is that you're stupid enough to think that you're different or special in doing so. You're not. You're in the same position of ignorance about final outcomes as everybody else. Even worse, because you believe in an outcome for which you have no evidence. The house always wins when you make stupid bets like that. So tell me how you are different. Show me the evidence for karma or for reincarnation?