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What is the point of anything?
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RE: What is the point of anything?
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As has been stated before: what is the point of anything not directly related to the test if this life is just a test for some afterlife?

Surely building a sandcastle or visiting the Louvre does nothing to affect your chances to get into heaven, so what's the point of that even when you have a belief? What has changed now that you're deconverting?

Seriously, beauty in life is all in the eye of the beholder. You can choose to see things as nihilistic and pointless, or you can choose to see that life is wondrous; the improbable number of chances that fell in just right to lead to you is the stuff of legend. Make it count. Do what makes you happy, meet many different kinds of people, enrich yourself in whatever way you can. That's the point. Be happy and make others happy. You'll find that's more than enough.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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What is the point of anything? - by Nell - February 8, 2015 at 8:53 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Tonus - February 8, 2015 at 9:01 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Aoi Magi - February 8, 2015 at 9:05 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Gawdzilla - February 8, 2015 at 9:13 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by professor - February 8, 2015 at 9:58 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by robvalue - February 8, 2015 at 10:06 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by One Above All - February 8, 2015 at 10:17 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by bennyboy - February 8, 2015 at 10:41 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Tonus - February 8, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by robvalue - February 8, 2015 at 10:47 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Darkstar - February 8, 2015 at 3:22 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Homeless Nutter - February 8, 2015 at 10:58 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Alex K - February 8, 2015 at 11:05 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Norman Humann - February 8, 2015 at 11:10 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by SteelCurtain - February 8, 2015 at 11:19 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Jenny A - February 8, 2015 at 12:26 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Silver - February 8, 2015 at 12:32 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Cyberman - February 8, 2015 at 2:00 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Silver - February 8, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Esquilax - February 8, 2015 at 1:03 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Thumpalumpacus - February 8, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by downbeatplumb - February 8, 2015 at 1:50 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 8, 2015 at 1:55 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Chad32 - February 8, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Silver - February 8, 2015 at 2:12 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Chad32 - February 8, 2015 at 2:18 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Cyberman - February 8, 2015 at 2:11 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Pizza - February 8, 2015 at 3:40 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by emilynghiem - February 9, 2015 at 7:10 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by thesummerqueen - February 9, 2015 at 7:27 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Pyrrho - February 9, 2015 at 7:56 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by dyresand - February 9, 2015 at 9:17 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Jenny A - February 9, 2015 at 9:30 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Minimalist - February 9, 2015 at 9:31 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Drich - February 10, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by thesummerqueen - February 10, 2015 at 11:22 pm
RE: What is the point of anything? - by FlyingSpaghettiMonster - February 11, 2015 at 12:02 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Mudhammam - February 11, 2015 at 12:53 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Cato - February 11, 2015 at 1:24 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by Chad32 - February 11, 2015 at 10:50 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by The Grand Nudger - February 11, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by veoli - February 11, 2015 at 11:59 am
RE: What is the point of anything? - by SteelCurtain - February 13, 2015 at 12:31 am

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