Why would you want to complicate things with philisophical and existential nonsense? Just live your life, it's all that is expected. I don't really contemplate the end of my life, because for the time being it isn't really all that important. I'm alive today. I exist today. What could possibly be the purpose to that beyond what purpose I give myself, what goals I set for myself?
The thundering flaw in all of theism is that it revolves around the importance of an individual. You believe in spacegods and destiny because it makes you important. Your life has meaning because some all powerful celestial being deemed your life necessary for this planet. You believe in heaven and hell because your life cannot possibly end with the end of you. It's arrogance, pure and simple masturbation of the ego to follow some fanciful notion that in an infinite universe you have some divine purpose for existing.
You and I, along with every other creature are merely insignificant specks in a larger insignificant speck in an even larger insignificant and ordinary speck amidst hundreds of billions. Do you honestly look up at the stars at night and ponder what your purpose in the face of infinity is? How do you not feel small? You and I will die, and long after you and I die our fellow species will hopefully move on to other planets and other solar systems and maybe even someday other galaxies. We will be forgotten, we will have been but a twinkle in the existence of our fair species if it survives.
But what your "purpose" should be, as should everyone else's is to make what little time you spend on this rock worth your time. Do something with your life beyond spouting incoherent rhetoric on a message board and live as if you will die tomorrow. Because you most certainly will, perhaps not the day after today. But someday you will. And you will be nothing but a picture in the minds and whisper on the lips of everyone that you leave behind. Unless you do something extraordinary or become someone extraordinary you will dwell amongst the rest of us as mere ordinary mortals. So wake up every morning happy, go to bed every night content, and never stop moving yourself forward. Because once you move past all of the dogma and theological nonsense your life will either have been completed by the steps you have taken, or it will have been an uneventful intermission to the time before you were born and the time after you are gone. You are guaranteed a very short stay on this tiny rock floating in a void. What you do with it is yours to choose, how you live your short life is yours to choose. But don't follow the lives of so many who came before us and live your life expecting some reward at the end of it, some glimpse at immortality after your time here has ended. I can tell you it is almost certain that you will be sorely disappointed.
The thundering flaw in all of theism is that it revolves around the importance of an individual. You believe in spacegods and destiny because it makes you important. Your life has meaning because some all powerful celestial being deemed your life necessary for this planet. You believe in heaven and hell because your life cannot possibly end with the end of you. It's arrogance, pure and simple masturbation of the ego to follow some fanciful notion that in an infinite universe you have some divine purpose for existing.
You and I, along with every other creature are merely insignificant specks in a larger insignificant speck in an even larger insignificant and ordinary speck amidst hundreds of billions. Do you honestly look up at the stars at night and ponder what your purpose in the face of infinity is? How do you not feel small? You and I will die, and long after you and I die our fellow species will hopefully move on to other planets and other solar systems and maybe even someday other galaxies. We will be forgotten, we will have been but a twinkle in the existence of our fair species if it survives.
But what your "purpose" should be, as should everyone else's is to make what little time you spend on this rock worth your time. Do something with your life beyond spouting incoherent rhetoric on a message board and live as if you will die tomorrow. Because you most certainly will, perhaps not the day after today. But someday you will. And you will be nothing but a picture in the minds and whisper on the lips of everyone that you leave behind. Unless you do something extraordinary or become someone extraordinary you will dwell amongst the rest of us as mere ordinary mortals. So wake up every morning happy, go to bed every night content, and never stop moving yourself forward. Because once you move past all of the dogma and theological nonsense your life will either have been completed by the steps you have taken, or it will have been an uneventful intermission to the time before you were born and the time after you are gone. You are guaranteed a very short stay on this tiny rock floating in a void. What you do with it is yours to choose, how you live your short life is yours to choose. But don't follow the lives of so many who came before us and live your life expecting some reward at the end of it, some glimpse at immortality after your time here has ended. I can tell you it is almost certain that you will be sorely disappointed.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
