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Why is life worth living as an atheist?
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RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist?
(February 11, 2013 at 1:49 am)NoahsFarce Wrote: You simply cannot, should not, ask for the meaning of life without personal meaning. I live my life a certain way for certain reasons (with many unknowns), but that does not mean that anyone else shares that with me. Nor should they...

It is of my opinion that each individual must find their own meaning. I personally live my life constantly searching for that meaning even though I acknowledge that I may never actually find it. Maybe that in itself is the meaning of life for me. Just finding some purpose to my existence.

I know my wife and kids are something I definitely live for. I also live for snowboarding... never get tired of that. I also disagree with your comment that things get boring after repetition. Sure, some things do, but not all. Astronomy for example; I love astronomy and it never ever ceases to amaze me. And how can it become boring? There is so much we do not understand about the universe (or multiverse).

Quote:It is of my opinion that each individual must find their own meaning
Agreed

Ultimately millions and billions of years from now nothing will be on record, all we have is this one life. Life may have no grand purpose, but all you can do is make your own meaning, do your own thing and be an individual. This
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Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 8:39 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by pocaracas - January 6, 2013 at 8:43 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 8:53 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 10:32 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 10:33 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 10:49 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 11:33 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Aractus - January 6, 2013 at 10:54 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Minimalist - January 6, 2013 at 11:09 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 11:13 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Minimalist - January 6, 2013 at 11:15 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by jonb - January 6, 2013 at 11:27 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 11:52 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 12:09 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 12:24 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Annik - January 6, 2013 at 3:48 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 3:56 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 6, 2013 at 11:56 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 12:00 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 6, 2013 at 12:05 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 6, 2013 at 12:21 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 12:37 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 6, 2013 at 12:45 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 12:47 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 6, 2013 at 12:51 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Alex87 - January 6, 2013 at 12:39 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 1:01 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by paulpablo - January 6, 2013 at 1:09 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 7, 2013 at 12:44 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Corvus - January 6, 2013 at 1:58 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Annik - January 6, 2013 at 4:18 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Annik - January 7, 2013 at 1:19 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 7, 2013 at 11:34 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Annik - January 7, 2013 at 11:50 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 7, 2013 at 12:02 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Annik - January 7, 2013 at 2:42 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by jonb - January 7, 2013 at 8:26 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Brian37 - January 7, 2013 at 8:42 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by pocaracas - January 7, 2013 at 11:36 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Brian37 - January 7, 2013 at 12:26 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by pocaracas - January 7, 2013 at 12:34 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Brian37 - January 7, 2013 at 1:10 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 7, 2013 at 4:11 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Zone - January 8, 2013 at 4:50 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Brian37 - January 8, 2013 at 5:54 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by naimless - January 25, 2013 at 2:32 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 25, 2013 at 2:49 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by naimless - January 25, 2013 at 3:27 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 25, 2013 at 12:54 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by naimless - January 26, 2013 at 6:13 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 26, 2013 at 6:33 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by jonb - January 25, 2013 at 9:26 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 25, 2013 at 1:30 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Nine - January 26, 2013 at 6:43 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - January 26, 2013 at 6:54 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Nine - January 26, 2013 at 7:02 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Violet - February 5, 2013 at 12:49 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by genkaus - February 1, 2013 at 10:38 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by TaraJo - January 25, 2013 at 1:07 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Brian37 - January 26, 2013 at 6:10 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Nine - January 25, 2013 at 1:12 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by pocaracas - January 25, 2013 at 1:17 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by jonb - January 25, 2013 at 1:24 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Nine - January 25, 2013 at 1:28 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Nine - January 26, 2013 at 6:52 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Zone - February 2, 2013 at 11:32 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by WinterHold - February 5, 2013 at 8:34 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by JDFlood - February 10, 2013 at 2:05 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by JDFlood - February 8, 2013 at 10:33 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by NoahsFarce - February 11, 2013 at 1:49 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Brian37 - February 11, 2013 at 3:38 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Zone - February 11, 2013 at 3:57 pm
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by NoahsFarce - February 12, 2013 at 1:35 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Zone - February 12, 2013 at 7:41 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by NoahsFarce - February 13, 2013 at 1:00 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Zone - February 13, 2013 at 10:00 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by NoahsFarce - February 14, 2013 at 3:01 am
RE: Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by Darkstar - February 14, 2013 at 10:55 am
Why is life worth living as an atheist? - by JDFlood - February 11, 2013 at 5:17 pm

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