Hey! Nice to see you here
Why do you think that just because you don't believe in the concept of a soul or any afterlife that you it makes you sad? This is a very misconception made by man. Just because your beliefs are limited, or maybe you don't have any, doesn't make you "sad." For example, I don't believe in any of that either, but I'm a very happy person and I enjoy life.
Well i don't know, i just used the general mass of people as an "average" view of myself, where not having a view of afterlife is GENERALLY looked down upon, ofcourse, generalization makes people angry, and carnage ensues. But based on the responses i usually get when i tell people about that, that is what most people think. Again, i don't care about it that much, but i can't say i'm 100% cold towards it, its always abit insulting when someone looks down upon something that's dear to you.
I enjoy life too, just fyi, i'm not a sad person
I would agree that religion can be a guidelines for people, however I would refrain from calling it common sense. I mean, is worship of deities common sense? And why can't you do moral things without it having to be for the sake of god? Are you not a good person on your own? Is it only god that makes you good?
Well, i'm not saying its common sense, but many of the guidelines and advice introduced from, say the bible, were totally valid as common sense 1000 years ago(and before that too). And no, worshipping deities isn't common sense
, but if there was "proof" that deities existed, that would be the case. But again, the god part of it, is/was just a means of getting people to actually uphold the rules, introducing consequence in a way they could understand(quite ironic, isn't it).
I think stories of the afterlife have been created because of the fear of death. Man cannot comprehend non-existence. The thought is too much for him, and it scares him, so he must go on living even when he has died.
Yeah i think that too. The concepts of "non-existence", "infinity", "eternally", are things we use and talk about, but no one can actually really understand these, because. Well for "obvious" reasons. Still i find that i understand it as much as i need to.. Which is why i have trouble believing that something like "infinity" can exist in the real world, like a physical infinity. I aired this thought on this forum before, only to be thrown in an onslaught of <-> arrows which SURELY was proof that infinity exists. An arrow on a note is not infinity, its a sign for the thought of infinity. I'm talking about infinity as, when they say a black hole has infinite mass, which to me is just absurd, seeing as if it was infinite, it would (atleast by what i have read and thought out based on what logics my current level of knowledge is) expand and swallow everything as we know it in an instant, because it has infinite gravity, and thus infinite pull on the universe, and then it has infinite acceleration, and thus, everything dies.
Then again, that might just be a whole load of bollocks, what do i know?
lol, no one's gonna say "you suck" (unless they don't understand what you're saying and they do it just to make themselves feel better about their feeble minds.) I'm glad you shared your thoughts.
Oh yes they're gonna! Atleast if i know the people that used to be around here and still are
I rarely voice my opinions for that matter, because mostly i just get immature answers, or superbiased answers. I have trouble taking something as truth from people who are 100% sided on something, because i find it hard to believe that they have explored all sides, giving an objective view of it.. It's hard to be objective about something almost purely opinions though.
