Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

[Mudhammam]

It's just the standard theistic appeal to consequences.

"Oh, those poor fatalistic atheists! They don't pretend to have the same eternal better thing that we pretend to have, how can they possibly be happy without pretending they've got something better than other people!"

And as usual, in accusing others a much richer picture is painted of the accuser, a man for whom life has no joy or meaning if it doesn't go on forever.

Though a man whose melancholia about life's hardships and brevity arguably represents the mindset that has, throughout written history, plagued the greater part of our species.

A man who can't see the pleasure in simply living, but only the satisfaction of the idea that it'll keep on happening. This isn't a person who values life, it's a person who's afraid of endings. The thing he values is eternity, in any form at all, regardless of the quality of the life it's attached to, if he truly can't see any good in a finite existence.

All it is, is this desperate need to pretend that the next day will be exactly like today, and it's fucking sad on its own.

Not that the next day will be exactly like today; that the next day will be. Period. I think it's superficial to regard the apparent nothingness that envelopes material existence for all but the brief moment we are given to experience as irrelevant to the here and now of that experience. For myself anyway, it creates a situation that is far more pessimistic, if not wholly absurd.