(December 22, 2013 at 7:24 pm)Ksa Wrote: However, when it comes to explaining to the child that, like every other human being, he was born sentenced to death, that's the tricky part. "mother, why do people die, and, will I die too?".How do you know the way that conversation will play out?
All of a sudden, science no longer cuts it. It just doesn't. WHY? Because the child will ask you, if his days are counted, why go to school? Why struggle? Towards what end? And it's a legitimate question. You are asking the child to sacrifice 20% of his life going to school, rather than playing in the yard and enjoying his minuscule life span just like any other creature on Earth.
The mother then says, if you don't go to school, you will be a nobody. Child replies, Al Pacino and John Travolta never finished high-school and they are more important people then you mom with a P.HD in God knows what. Then the mother tells the child, you have to go to school because everyone else goes there, child replies, am I a lamb?
Why do you think the only way to answer the question of the meaning of one's life leads to suicidal tendencies?
Since when does atheism = nihilism?
Is your head completely engulfed by your colon or just partially?
Why not just tell the child the meaning in his life is determined by him and only him.
