(April 6, 2019 at 2:53 pm)amerikkka Wrote: Dear Atheists,
What's your point of living? You're all eventually going to die. When you die, there will be no afterlife. It's almost as if you never existed in the first place because you'll forget you'll ever existed, thus you'll forget about anything that made you happy in life and any good moments in life. You can "make the best of it" while you're "here on Earth" for these "rare 80 [only if you're lucky] years", but in the end it won't matter. Most people won't leave behind a legacy, and even if you left one behind, it won't last long. Even famous luminaries like Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley will be forgotten sooner than later. Your contributions to humanity won't matter either because humanity will end, and life on Earth will be wiped out by a meteor in a few centuries from now or even sooner. If that doesn't happen, humans will go extinct anyway by robots.
But, you're eventually going to be wormfood and your legacy will be forgotten as well.
The only difference is that I can accept that inevitability, and you can't.
The fact that life ends doesn't negate it's value, in my view. I can find happiness in life and strive to make existence better for the people I care about without being comforted by greedy fantasies of life going on forever and ever and ever and ever....
That's just the way my brain works, I guess. It is what it is.
