(April 9, 2015 at 9:17 pm)datc Wrote:(April 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I see no reason to see the next life as a natural outcome of this one. The natural outcome of this life appears to be death and no more.
Alright then.
Suppose you are a young guy who just got his Bachelor's degree in, say, computer science. Your whole life is ahead of you, full of plan and prospects and excitement. You go to Florida to unwind from the stress of your studies and exams. It's all nice and restful, until one day you are swimming in the ocean, and everything seems irie, mon, and then a shark bites off your head. In your opinion, is that f***ing all?
Unfortunately yes. It is also an unfortunate fact that Mozart died at 33 years of age, Billy Holly's plane crashed, Kennedy was shot, thousands of children die of hunger and disease, earthquakes happen, floods happen, hurricanes happen. So do epidemics. And as Holly, Mozart, and Kenedy illustrate, death happens to those who are planning to do great things. There's plenty of evidence of untimely death. What there isn't an evidence of is an afterlife, let alone that believing in an afterlife would make an afterlife more likely.
It would be nice if not believing in gravity made falls painless and always non-fatal, but the world doesn't appear to work that way.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
