(November 16, 2011 at 3:03 am)Justtristo Wrote: Not the mention the prospect of my own existence ending when I die.
The worst part of atheism - the whole you die and it lasts for all time type thing. The never knowing you ever even lived bit. That's quite hard to come to terms with.
Over time it becomes easier to accept (you've got no choice), and I find comfort in the fact that there are many others probably with the same fears who are learning to cope with it like me.
At least atheists won't have a moment of sheer panic and doubt on their deathbed (is heaven real! Am I really going to live on? Oh fuck I hope so! I wasted my life!) , that's reserved for some of our know it all theistic chums, and when they've breathed their last, after the last minute panic, it's lights out - same for them as anyone else.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
