(October 30, 2013 at 7:41 pm)leodeo Wrote: just gonna accept my lot in life, and do the best i can to get through...
You don't have to simply accept your lot in life. Sure, there are things beyond our control, but we have the ability to change a lot of things about our lives.
Not believing in god doesn't mean you have to simply just endure whatever life throws at you without the ability to shape your life. It means that you're free to find your place in the world as you see it and not have your life dictated to you by some outside entity.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell