(February 23, 2014 at 4:47 pm)LittleAFish Wrote: I can't deal with the fact that I'm just going to die.Sure you can. You just go about living your life. I've met lots of people who are religious, but few who actually put off living life even though they believe that their current life is just a very brief interlude on the way to something better. Humans actually have a pretty poor ability to understand the concept of a future; we live in the present, in more ways than just the obvious.
This doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about the future. It just means that we shouldn't extend that worry to what happens after we die. Once you embrace living, you become less worried about what happens when you're finished. Once you control that fear, it gets easier to enjoy the time you have. Remember, everyone has a certain amount of time here, and you're one of the relative few who recognize that it ends at some point. Live life, enjoy life, make the most of what's there.
And remember to roll your eyes and laugh whenever someone presumes that the previous paragraph is "nihilism." And welcome to the forums.
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-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
