(October 25, 2013 at 3:48 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(October 25, 2013 at 3:30 pm)snowtracks Wrote: afterlife makes sense from this angle, the universe is heading for a 'heat death' since it's expanding and getting cooler to the point where information can't be transmitted for lack of concentrated heat (energy) which would mean anything that happened in the trillion years would be lost forever. so, no afterlife, nothing ultimately matters.
Unfortunately, the universe cares not for the desires of human beings and their need to have everything "ultimately matter."
What you have basically said is that the afterlife makes sense, because that's how you want things to be. Besides, just because nothing you've deemed important won't be important in a trillion years doesn't mean that stuff isn't still important now.
ETA: Fuckin' ninjas.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.