(February 12, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/the-s...-on-earth/
Quote:The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do we have only 1 billion years left on Earth?
Quote:The Earth is a complex system – and no model is perfect. However, it seems likely that we have no more than a billion years left for life to thrive on our planet.
Everyone reading this now will have been dead a very long time by then. It makes absolutely no difference for your life or mine or for anyone else presently alive. People who are worried or upset about this are just being silly. To quote the great philosopher Epicurus:
- Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
from the Letter to Menoeceus, by Epicurus. I would provide a link for you, but the last 2 posts in which I posted such a link, they were deleted by a moderator because I have not been here for 30 days yet. So you must search online for yourselves, though I suggest you look at epicurus dot net.
It is disturbing how there are so many atheists who desperately cling to some hope of immortality, just like deluded religionists. It almost makes me ashamed to be an atheist. Almost.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
