(February 3, 2016 at 1:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 3, 2016 at 11:13 am)robvalue Wrote: Allah, and anyone else, can do whatever they want to me after I die. I don't care. Why? Because I'll be dead.
Make me into a plant pot, whatever you like.
Yep, I agree, threaten me with Allah or Jesus or Apollo, or Darth Vader, fiction is still fiction. I won't care because I will be dead and it will feel exactly the same as it did before I was born. I am not that selfish as to think the universe will always need me. It did fine without me before I was born.
To add to that, somehow theists stupidly get it in their head, that because I accept my finite existence somehow that means I am incapable of valuing my life as it is. I want my ride to go on as long as my body holds out, but the ride still ends no matter what I personally want.
You go to a movie knowing it will end. You read a book knowing it has a last page. You get another pet after one dies. You also live on after your friends and or a family member dies. My mom gave me a quote I have in my car still today, "Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened".
Now of course it is ok to mourn, we wouldnt be humans if we didn't feel loss or pain. But to ignore reality is not only silly, but when it gets to a paranoid and superstitious level, that bad logic can lead an individual to commit violent acts or even suicide. Religion unfortunately sets people up to value fiction instead of valuing reality.
I think it is simply better logic and more healthy mentally to accept the ride ends and enjoy the time you have while you are here. We are not emotionless robots. We wont eat your babies or barbecue your kittens. The only difference between a believer and an atheist, is we simply don't assign life to old books or magic. Outside that, our lives are just the same.
