This lunchtime, I realised that the main problem with being an atheist is that - unlike our religious brethren - we can't get the smug satisfaction of knowing that, when they die, everyone else will realise they were wrong.
But a good thing is that, as long as we can think about death, we are still living! In the words of Epicurus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicure ): When we are here there is no death, and when death is here we are not around. So that means that also an atheist will live forever, because when he/she is not here he/she will not know. So for ourselves life is endless. This, to me sound so much nicer than going to hell/heaven, or going through the rather tiring process of reincarnation..
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Date: 2006-09-20 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-20 08:53 pm (UTC)In the words of Epicurus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicure ): When we are here there is no death, and when death is here we are not around. So that means that also an atheist will live forever, because when he/she is not here he/she will not know. So for ourselves life is endless. This, to me sound so much nicer than going to hell/heaven, or going through the rather tiring process of reincarnation..
;-)