(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: I dont mean that i dont want to live.
You might want to consider more why that is.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: I mean why do we live? Whats the meaning of living. We are living for so long nothing has been changed.
History begs to differ.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: The world is certainly not being made better place to live when i last checked.
It might help to think in centuries instead of decades. 200 years ago, 90% of the world was what would be considered today extreme poverty. Today it's about 15%, and that's less than half what it was thirty years ago. It sucks to be an endangered species, but it's measurably better to be human than it was when I was born, even though we face issues of overpopulation, resource depletion, and climate change.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: We live for our friends, family ? then what they will also eventually die.
How does something being temporary reduce it's meaning? I wouldn't even bother to read a book or watch a movie if I knew it was going to go on forever. I don't see any reason to suppose that permanence has ANYTHING to do with meaning. Perhaps the opposite. I can't think of anything that would make my current life more meaningless than if it were just a prelude to a never-ending existence.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: If even if we become successful scientist or businessman then what? Why are we surviving, bound to natural selection and all those stuff.
We have places to be, people to meet, and things to do. Can't do any of that anymore when you're dead.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: Cockroaches and crocodiles are far more primitive than humans. Even now they are where they were 100 millions years ago. They are surviving as well.
But compared to us, they're on automatic. One cockroach's or crocodile's life is pretty much identical to any other's in the same circumstances. A quick and severe lobotomy can give you the same blissful lack of awareness of your finitude.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: We humans have just adapted to survive effectively. But why? Nothing will change if human population increase.
Things would still change, it's just that fewer of the changes would be good ones. If it's any consolation, middle-of-the road UN projections have the human population peaking around 2050 and declining very slowly for centuries thereafter. Our population on this planet won't double again, though it's doubled once already in my lifetime. Nearly all the population growth over the next 40 years will be happening in Africa and South America, but it won't last even there. Maybe 9 or 10 billion will still be more than our habitat can survive, but it's not going to get to 15 or 20 billion.
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: The only reason I can come up with is human extinction or end of world due to overpopulation and over utilization of resource.
That doesn't seem to parse as a reason to survive. How about 'to make life as pleasant as I can for as long as I can for as many people as I can without infringing too much on my own enjoyment of life'. That would be a good reason to survive, woudn't it?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
