(October 14, 2021 at 4:10 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(October 14, 2021 at 4:09 pm)slartibartfast Wrote: The irony is that there is no afterlife. So anything you "trade" in our one and only real life - you are effectively throwing away - and that also includes time. Time you could be spending more productively than thinking about how you can please your God to have a better afterlife.You really don't know that.
it's like spending your whole life fantasizing what it would be like to win the lottery one day, and because of that opting out of an education, good job, etc.
I think you might mean that you don't know that. There's nothing keeping other people from knowing that.
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