Sadly the only two ways to leave a significant legacy is to either contribute greatly to society or to cause serious damage to it. It's true that the many become nothing but gravestone names and community heroes are gradually forgotten, but does this mean that we should just drop dead?
The value of a limited life is that you have to choose how you spend it. Will you be someone who wants to experience the world or sit around at home all day as a pessimistic hermit? Will you be the one who solves or eases a societal problems or be a part of the trouble?
Honestly the idea of an afterlife creeps me out, I'm not looking forward to the pain and surely not to my death. If I want paradise, I'll strive for one on this little blue planet. I prefer to be remembered by a few rather than nobody, I prefer a short legacy than not one at all.
To me, life is as valuable as how you use it.
Well, there's always women I suppose...
But really, I supose if you want to put it that way, then do whatever you please if you'll be forgotten.
Man OP made me feel depressed after reading post.
Life is like a gmod server, you spend hours building an awesome contraption and then you randomly disconnect and a minge comes and destroys it all.
For me being alive is absolutely better than being dead. No matter what. There is plenty of stuff to live for. You just have to live in the moment and not get caught up thinking about death or what will eventually happen.
[QUOTE=teh pirate;25366154]To improve the lives of others as long as they live.[/QUOTE]
go make me a sandwich
I saw the title and just went "well this won't end well..."
Hooray, you've discovered the concept of absurdity!
Holy fucking shit, why did I double post.
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;25366090]Because every little thing you do affects someone, somehow. And besides, who says we won't make some amazing advancement tomorrow that creates infinite life?
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"Thanks to denial, I'm Immortal!"
This is a wonderful thread.
Questioning why life is worth living is like questioning why the Earth orbits the Sun
Really there's not but hey might as well enjoy the ride right.
[QUOTE=FPChris;25366070]To smoke weed err' day.[/QUOTE]
Smoke Weed err' day, dont give a SHIT!
Everyone should kill themselves at the same time so we can find out.
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I will observe from a distance.
I don't want to die.
Life is too short, and in a split second you can lose it.
Moments matter.
If moments don't matter, then why would immortality change anything? It would just be an unlimited supply of meaningless moments.
So I have a limited supply of meaningful moments. That's fine.
Because I actually enjoy my life, and I only have one so I better make sure I enjoy it a lot.
"I got better things to do on a sunday"
-Billy G.
vidya games
because we are pathetic
[QUOTE=Surreal;25366036]I've come to the conclusion that life is just as valuable as not living because you will eventually die and the impact you've left along with the world will die too, the universe will eventually die, and there's no chance of a legacy ultimately surviving, so why does anything matter? What ever you do will just be forgotten anyway[/QUOTE]
There *is* no innate meaning to life, regardless of whether or not you belief in a higher entity. One may THINK that there is a meaning to life if she or he believes in some form of higher being, but she or he is entirely wrong.
Since "survival" is less complex than some of the other reasons users list here, people tend to use more obscure and ambiguous terms than that. But, to put it simply, the only reason why most of us want to continue to live is because it's in our genetics. We can't really *help* the fact that we do want to live. Most of us probably don't even think about the implications of "death" or "not existing" on a day to day basis.
So we can watch porn.
Theists can't do that because they wear chastitiy belts which probably cause ED and testicular cancer if you watch porn in it.
knowledge, one day we might be able to live forever
If anything being atheist makes every day that much more enjoyable, or if you look at it from a rather narrow point of view, valuable. Who the hell cares what happens when you die? If you don't believe in any sort of afterlife, religious or otherwise, then life will simply end and you wouldn't have a conscience to feel bored, happy, sad, etc.
So in that respect, the fact that we don't believe in an afterlife shouldn't bother an atheist.
Re-read OP and it doesn't seem that was your point. [B]Your[/B] point is a problem with [B]your[/B] brain, doesn't seem like a religious one at all.
[QUOTE=z0mbify;25371655]knowledge, one day we might be able to live forever[/QUOTE]
But what's the point of living forever? I don't think you realize the implications of something like that.
First of all, the world would reach its carrying capacity in a matter of years.
Humans are born atheists. How do you feel about that, theists?
[QUOTE=fading_sun;25371923]But what's the point of living forever? I don't think you realize the implications of something like that.
First of all, the world would reach its carrying capacity in a matter of years.[/QUOTE]
I don't care, I would love to be immortal.
Live life to the fullest! Don't waste a single second of it. As a former Christian, turned atheist, I can pretty much relate to what everybody else says here. Death amuses me anyhow, the thought of not existing sends shivers down my spine and at the same time excites me. As long as I'm content with what I've done throughout my life on my death bed I'll be fine.
[QUOTE=fading_sun;25371923]But what's the point of living forever? I don't think you realize the implications of something like that.
First of all, the world would reach its carrying capacity in a matter of years.[/QUOTE]
well by that time interstellar travel will hopefully be available. I would love to spend ages exploring the universe.
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