(October 18, 2016 at 8:59 pm)SuperMarioGamer Wrote: If I am special and have value as a human being, that creates a major conflict for me. This conflict would be that for such a special and valuable person as myself to just forever rot and decay away would be the greatest insult to my value and specialness as a human being.
It would be utterly demeaning of my value and specialness. It would be just tossing me away like trash. So in order to resolve this conflict, I would have to deem myself as nothing special at all and of no value. However, if I am immortal and do get to live forever in heaven, then there would be no conflict.
So, in short, if there is a heaven for me to live forever in, then I would deem myself as valuable and special since that conflict would not exist. But if there is no afterlife, then I would just view myself as a piece of shit who might as well just die anyway.
This would also apply to the relationship I have with my own family and how I view other human beings.
You really need to reframe your thought process.
You are privileged to get to live at the best time in human history.
There is a long, unbroken chain of success of every organism that lead to you, from your most recent ancestors, to the most ancient single celled creature. You are the product of the winners, not the whiners.
The fact that we are all going to die, is a good thing. It is part of the process that helps our species, and whatever comes after us, be better at surviving and flourishing.
The thought of an afterlife, just belittles this one and makes it seem like a place just to wipe our feet, while waiting for the 'real life' to start.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.