(February 5, 2015 at 10:45 am)Strider Wrote: If your life is really as marvelous as you describe, I envy you! Mine doesn't go quite so smoothly, but I can't complain. I have very few wants, a loving (and smokin' hot!) wife, some cool hobbies, and a few cats and chickens to keep me company. Life is just life to me. There's some good and some bad, but overall I feel happy and so fortunate to experience this extremely brief period of existence.
It isn't. Suffering is an inherent aspect of human life on this planet, so the only way to see your life as the OP described is to be as delusional as some of our wackier resident theists. Even the best life ever lived could never be described in such a nauseatingly blissful manner.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
