(October 20, 2013 at 11:04 am)leodeo Wrote:(October 20, 2013 at 10:55 am)Brakeman Wrote: So when you were a christian, did you scream at the animals "What do you have to live for! There is no heaven for you! Just go and die already!?" Probably not.
What kind of answer would satisfy your angst? Would it really comfort you to believe that you are the slave of some powerful slavemaster? Is having the freedom to find your own meaning that scary for you? Most atheists I've heard from relish in their freedom from theistic mental tyranny.
i guess i was kinda unorthodox cuz i believed animals also went to heaven, and that they were doing there part in making the world beautiful by existing and being part of nature.
what are some examples of meaning of life? what are some of y'alls meaning in life?
I don't think that there is any meaning to life, and I am perfectly comfortable with that - it is what it is and you yourself might get used to that concept one day.
As for meaning to your life, then that is down to you to give it meaning.
I would say that if you consider that we all could well be here due to nothing more than a series of chances, then isn't that actually incredible to think? So why think "might as well kill myself?"
Surely this one off lucky break that you happen to be experiencing in between two timeless periods of nothingness has to be savoured, filled with experiences and lived to the fullest?
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.
