[QUOTE=johan_sm;25372015]I don't care, I would love to be immortal.[/QUOTE]
Thomas Jefferson said that we all have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's as if he knew that happiness wouldn't be happiness if it were just given to you.
How can you say that you would love to be immortal? Knowing that there are no boundaries. Knowing that your opportunities are truly limitless? The idea behind life is that it's short so you make due with what you have. If you eliminate the short aspect, you eliminate the entire aim and end of human existence--that is, to be happy. You can't achieve happiness when there are no consequences. Without consequences, there can be no such thing as happiness. Much like how there can be no such thing as good without evil. Much like how there can be no such thing as equality without inequality. You need one to have the other. Eliminate one thing, you eliminate everything.
They say that the trick to being able to enjoy life is discovering that, on the contrary, the glass is and will always be half-empty. You must always take every good thing in life for granted, and always expect that every waking moment of your existence [I]can[/I] be filled with misery. It's only when something good happens does it add a speck of happiness to the otherwise blank, miserable canvas of life.
I guess the problem with me is that I bear the illusion of always having something to lose, which in turn prevents me from taking the larger chances in life. But I feel that once I acquire any degree of wealth or happiness, even after taking said chances, I will once again have the fear of losing more if anything bad happens to me.
It's a sad state of affairs really.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;25372254]Thomas Jefferson said that we all have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's as if he knew that happiness wouldn't be happiness if it were just given to you.
How can you say that you would love to be immortal? Knowing that there are no boundaries. Knowing that your opportunities are truly limitless? The idea behind life is that it's short so you make due with what you have. If you eliminate the short aspect, you eliminate the entire aim and end of human existence--that is, to be happy. You can't achieve happiness when there are no consequences. Without consequences, there can be no such thing as happiness. Much like how there can be no such thing as good without evil. Much like how there can be no such thing as equality without inequality. You need one to have the other. Eliminate one thing, you eliminate everything.[/QUOTE]
I think he meant immortal as in never aging rather than being invincible.
And I actually think I would be even more happy if I was immortal.
HAHA oh man, oh man
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;25372967]I think he meant immortal as in never aging rather than being invincible.
And I actually think I would be even more happy if I was immortal.[/QUOTE]
Why would you want to be immortal? Eventually you will have literally done everything and it would just become more of the same day in and day out.
[QUOTE=Onyx3173;25373082]Why would you want to be immortal? Eventually you will have literally done everything and it would just become more of the same day in and day out.[/QUOTE]
Because when you are dead you can't do anything
[QUOTE=imasillypiggys;25373295]Because when you are dead you can't do anything[/QUOTE]
Everything ends eventually. Anything ranging from you or I to the greatest empires and even mountains will disappear. Being immortal is against the natural order.
[QUOTE=Surreal;25366036]What ever you do will just be forgotten anyway[/QUOTE]
Then do something in your life that won't be forgotten. Duh.
[QUOTE=Onyx3173;25373325]Everything ends eventually. Anything ranging from you or I to the greatest empires and even mountains will disappear. Being immortal is against the natural order.[/QUOTE]
Thats a dumb reason to not want to live forever, the natural order is not relevant to many things
[QUOTE=FPChris;25366070]To smoke weed err' day.[/QUOTE]
Your pic is so fitting..
And we live for other things in life. If you can't find any reasons for "living" apart from god, the I don't know how we're supposed to explain to you that theres more than religion.
I wouldn't like to be completely immortal. I would be invincible, so that I can't be killed, but still age.
So if someone shot or stabbed me, I wouldn't die.
peer pressure
If anything, the Atheist has the greatest motivation to carry on living simply because when he's dead, that's it.
The meaning of life (for a man) is to reproduce with the most fertile women you can find.
Fertillity usually being shown in beauty and social skills.
This way you ensure your gene pool gets passed on to a future generation.
This is actually the meaning of all life on earth, wether they know it or not.
Life is worth living for tons of reasons. Self preservation is a big part of that. Even if life wasn't worth living as you claim it to be then you are basically stating that every atheist is a hypocrite. Yet animals have no religion, no morals no standards for society. But why don't they kill themselves? Why don't starving children in Africa kill themselves? It's simply self preservation. The goal of a life is to reproduce but why is there life in the first place? Because there can be. We are here because we can be here. The right was not given to us by god.* Even if god did create us, what reason could he possibly have? If we were supposed to pass on a legacy of sorts when there was no life then what is the purpose? There would be no point. The main idea of life is to live and evolve. No one knows why life was created, when there could just be nothing. However it is a given that life was created and that we are here so therefore we can make something of our lives. Do what you want. Live. Grow. Evolve. And eventually die. But you will die with a legacy. Whether it is to be a child, a political reign, or a memory, every one of us will live through others. Our mistakes will form a blueprint for the future to stand upon and use as a foundation for their lives. We are the beginning to all things great, and all things bad. We are human.
By: Yours truly,
Xion12
*I am not trying to start a religious war, just trying to make a point.
Life sucks, I wouldn't give 2 fucks if I was about to die. Not gonna actively seek out death because... mostly because I can't.
I don't see why everyone is rating OP dumb. He's perfectly right.
He's dumb to embrace those views as a lifestyle choice and a way of preceving reality all the time if that's the case, but most likely he's just tossing the question around.
[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]
To enjoy what little time I have on this planet, not to do things that impress your grandchildren.
OP is right, brb finding a cliff to jump off.
There's only one reason to live, as an atheist: Meh, got nothing better to do.
I think of it this way, I don't care if I'm remembered for it or not, I don't care about "Legacy"
I care about doing the right thing and helping as many people as I can, if I see someone in need of help, your damn right I'm going to help them, even if it puts my own life at risk. Hell, if the circumstance requires it I'll die to save someone else.
[QUOTE=Shanaro;25374061]I think of it this way, I don't care if I'm remembered for it or not, I don't care about "Legacy"
I care about doing the right thing and helping as many people as I can, if I see someone in need of help, your damn right I'm going to help them, even if it puts my own life at risk. Hell, if the circumstance requires it I'll die to save someone else.[/QUOTE]
You're an example of somebody I put faith in.
[QUOTE=Surreal;25366124]Infinite life is impossible, because eventually the universe's supply of hydrogen will burn out and stars will no longer be able to live on, neither will life.
You can't really live life to the fullest, I mean, it doesn't matter if you don't remember it, and nobody will[/QUOTE]
:emo:
If I was Justin Beiber I would be cutting myself.
[QUOTE=Shanaro;25374061]I think of it this way, I don't care if I'm remembered for it or not, I don't care about "Legacy"
I care about doing the right thing and helping as many people as I can, if I see someone in need of help, your damn right I'm going to help them, even if it puts my own life at risk. Hell, if the circumstance requires it I'll die to save someone else.[/QUOTE]
You sound like one of my best friends.
He still has some big personal struggles and some growing up to do, but he wants to change the world one person at a time and in my opinion embracing that is all that really matters. :3
You made me stab my good friend gummy worm when I read this.
[I]Why?[/I]
why would life be not worth living for an Atheist
to fuck bitches and smoke crack
[QUOTE=Surreal;25366124]Infinite life is impossible, because eventually the universe's supply of hydrogen will burn out and stars will no longer be able to live on, neither will life.
You can't really live life to the fullest, I mean, it doesn't matter if you don't remember it, and nobody will[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Surreal;25366174]Life is just building a tower, knocking it down, cleaning up the mess, and then erasing the memory of having built the tower in the first place, it really does not matter at all[/QUOTE]
You're a bleak little sod, aren't you?
This is the thing I don't get with you theists, why life [b]has[/b] to have a purpose other than that which we assign to it ourselves. So what if there's no bearded cunt judging our every move, deciding whether we should burn or fuck for eternity? This is the only life we have, so it's silly not to try and live it to the fullest, at the very least for our own personal enjoyment.
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[QUOTE=Onyx3173;25373325]Everything ends eventually. Anything ranging from you or I to the greatest empires and even mountains will disappear. Being immortal is against the natural order.[/QUOTE]
So? To hell with the natural order, I would love to see humanity's evolution through centuries, millennia, as we explore the universe(s). Should I get bored of it all, buckshot to the face! (or whatever future weapon is currently in use. If no weapons, i'll drive into a sun.)
I'd rather not live life constantly in fear of sinning and burning for eternity.
Seriously, atheists have as much a reason to live as any theist. You can keep purpose if that makes you a happy camper.
On the other hand, I say mean screw purpose, screw devoting oneself to any of that unprove-able rubbish, screw all that, I'm living to the fullest and will pursue things at my own pleasure, regardless of whatever some deity thinks.
God/s might exist, they might not, but either way, I'm not stopping my life in any way to check.
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