Just Fred wrote:

Heavy discussion here ............. I just tuned in and read the last several posts.  Maybe it's a slow day for me.  I'm really tired of winter and the gray gloom that has been with us for the last several months.

Concerning the the 'life after death' thing, I'm convinced it was a human invention.  Why, you might ask?

Well, because I think it's actually more difficult to comprehend "nothingness" than it is to believe we can somehow live forever after we physically leave the planet as we are and become fertilizer.  No other species has to wrestle with the thought of "non-existence" except man.

Yep, no one want to think that it just might be over when we croak. Talk about depressing. 

Yet, even if it IS over, we still live on in the ways we have touched others (good and bad) so in that sense at least we do live on no matter what. 



 

Just Fred wrote:

I don't think it's too depressing, Tennyson.  The solution is to live life like this is all there is. 

Yeah, guess I should have said like you that it doesn't have to be. That said, I believe the vast majority of people would still find it depressing. Since many people believe in a religion that touts an afterlife, it would kind of shoot holes in that whole thing for them. Not sure how that would go over and still keep your faith. 





 

Goose wrote:

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

And he'd likely do everything the same way.
 

Here is a question for everyone. 

Would you live your life differently if you knew there was no afterlife ?? 


 

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