Solace

[Silver]

If in the end, we're destined for oblivion, then the struggle, the day to day grind that makes up our adult lives, is utterly for nothing.

Even if one believe in an after life, it is not as though the comforts and things of the material world can be taken to the beyond. The difference, I have noticed, is that the religious who know and supposedly understand Jesus' message regarding giving away one's riches and possessions do not adhere to it while atheists tend to enjoy life to its fullest knowing full well it is the only existence available. Why not actually behave according to understanding this is the only life we have and working, not for the purpose of anyone else but rather ourselves, so that we can have what we want rather than what others think we should have?

My questions to the board are, how do you cope with the ultimate meaninglessness of your existence?

Life is only meaningless if one expects there is something better after this life. Atheists celebrate the one existence they have here, not pining away a life in the hopes of something better upon death.