(January 26, 2014 at 9:15 pm)Shaggy Wrote: If anything, it's theists' lives that are pointless. They believe that this is a "pre-game" of sorts. They die and go on to their true calling in heaven or what have you. For an atheist, this is all we get. The time I have with my son, my unborn daughter, my family, is limited to this life. If that doesn't give your life a "point", then I don't know what is wrong with you.Well, since this is all you get, why really spoil it by having a child, someone who essentially eats away from your time that you could spend on yourself, rather than on someone else?
You could spend your money on having a flash car instead of investing in your child's education.
And after you're dead, you're dead, you won't need to care about what happens to your children, and no one is going to call you to account for it.
So what exactly is the higher point in having a child for you?
Quote:After reading this again, I think we're feeding the troll here.I agree.
Quote:In a universal scale are we pointless? how are we pointless? So far we are the only intelligent beings of the universe that we know of. How do you know what the human race can accomplish and when it could accomplish such things?He means you. The individual. Not any collective identity.
After all, what humanity could accomplish won't matter to you after you're dead.
Quote:Honestly, these were the cards we were dealt, try to accomplish something...To what end?
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