(November 28, 2008 at 5:32 pm)CoxRox Wrote: Ace, I cannot understand your happiness and acceptance of your eventual demise???? To me this is counter intuitive!
What do you know...you caused me to smile there

Ok, now I haven't existed for many billions of years, and today in this existence of mine, I do not feel effected by this. Going back into non-existence for all eternity doesn't bother me. I've acknowledged that I'm just a self aware biological lifefrom doomed to fade back into non-existence. I cannot stop this, I can only delay it. Worrying about it will not help me in anyway. Beliveing in an afterlife will not effect reality. Also I do not desire an afterlife. I want an end. Not yet though, I wish to live as long as I can but then I'd like to take that one way ticket into oblivion.
I'm very ok with that prospect

I see life as a taster of existing. What weve got is nothing more than a taste of existence, but the thing is, we are only allowed a certain amount of time. Which once it runs out, we return into non-existence, never to return. Which is why life is important to live to the best of your abilitys, because it will never come again. Even when billions of years pass, at least you existed once, at least you had done something in that brief time, at least you had the ability to look around in wonder and in understanding. If you see this life like I do, you see this existence as nothing more than a little taster. A taste which alot of us cannot let go.
I don't think about when I may die, but what I can do before I go.
I don't mind the idea of going back to non-existence, at least I existed once.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.