(March 25, 2018 at 4:40 am)Banned Wrote:(March 24, 2018 at 8:57 am)Brian37 Wrote: ... You can still do good and be good and enjoy life.
And after that you are putz.
I won't be a "putz" after I die just like I wasn't a "putz" 4 billion years ago when I didn't exist either.
What do you think would be so scary if you suddenly found out that this is the only life you get? A slow painful death scares me. The thought of my loved ones missing me scares me. But not existing doesn't. Do you think a cockroach has an afterlife? How about a pre life? Humans are NOT an apex, or special to evolution or the universe. We are merely one species and just as finite as any other species.
You go to a movie knowing it ends, but you still go. You go to a music concert knowing it ends, but you still go. You go to a sporting event, one team wins, one team loses, and it too ends, but you still go. You read a book knowing it has a last page, but you still read it. Knowing life ends, and this is the only one you get, does not make one pessimistic or fatalistic. I still value law, and non violence and empathy and still feel love. I still have ups and downs yes. The only thing I don't do is assign good or bad to old mythology.
My late mother printed out a saying for me long ago, "Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened".
I am sorry it bothers you I don't buy your claims. But I do not need a God or religion to live my life. I am perfectly fine with being finite. No, it does not mean I want to kill myself. It just means I don't chalk "all this" up to superstitions.
