(October 14, 2021 at 4:09 pm)slartibartfast Wrote:(October 14, 2021 at 7:02 am)Ahriman Wrote: If I had to trade some kind of earthly life for an eternal reward, I suppose I might as well suffer here (on this planet) and then get a nice reward in the afterlife, but I really don't think that's how it works.
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.
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.
Sorry to be a noodge "----there is probably no afterlife"
To say "there is no afterlife" is to make an affirming claim. That attracts the burden of proof just as much as claiming there is an after life. This is a hard row to hoe. As far as I'm aware, all claims about god(s) and an afterlife (at least) remain unfalsifiable. IE so far no one in recorded history no one has managed to demonstrate that any claims are true.
As for the lottery, I stopped buying lottery tickets when I realised the kind of odds needed to win a huge amount. Have always thought gambling is mug's game and that includes all kinds of lotteries. Imo, multi million dollar lotteries are just a sneaky way of taxing the poor.
These days I have no need for more money. I'm perfectly content with my standard of living. If I won a lot of money I'd just give it away, perhaps after buying a Beemer and a Porsche Boxster.
However, I'd buy tickets if first prize was my body as it was at 21 (army, thin and buff) with my brain at say age 50. Now those are worth winning!
