especially when I didn't ask to be a part of this cosmic drama — darthbarracuda
I imagine that somethings are above me, or beyond my judgement. That I'm inept to evaluate them. That I personally am not the measure of all things, at the very least. That there are heights to which I have not climbed, and may be incapable of climbing. — Wosret
But if there is life after death, then an entirely new perspective is available. It becomes possible, based on works or faith in this life to spend eternity in heaven, hell, or to be reincarnated as some believe. So the real question that remains is, what if the idea of no life after death is wrong? What could happen then? Does one truly want to remain in ignorance by not thinking about it until it is too late to pick a new course? — Lone Wolf
I think that it's astonishing that anyone thinks that they're in a position to judge the creator of the fucking universe. The immeasurable arrogance of people... always the smartest, beatest most righteous ones that ever lived... nothing worthy of subordinating themselves to, they're just that awesome. — Wosret
f there is nothing after death, then there really is nothing to face after death; life is but an empty dream. — Lone Wolf
Consider this, Wosret. Any "creator of the fucking universe" is for me a mere hypothesis, an image or concept in my mind. — n0 0ne
We are like gods trapped in dogs. — n0 0ne
We've been to the moon, brother. We can cognize the end of all life on the this planet, if not all life in the universe as we know it. — n0 0ne
...anyone who fears death should consider the time before he was born. The past infinity of pre-natal non-existence is like the future infinity of post-mortem non-existence; it is as though nature has put up a mirror to let us see what our future non-existence will be like. But we do not consider not having existed for an eternity before our births to be a terrible thing; therefore, neither should we think not existing for an eternity after our deaths to be evil.
I think there is nothing after death. Also, yes, life is "ultimately" an "empty" dream. "All is vanity" = Everything is empty. But this is only ultimately. — n0 0ne
So this empty dream is crowded with incident. — n0 0ne
When life is going well (is mostly fun and pleasant), then it has a positive net value. Just as you don't want to lose your cash-stuffed wallet, you don't want to lose your fun and pleasure. — n0 0ne
Of course life can also appear as a net "bad" or an obscene horror. Anyone who has not seen this "horror" is maybe a little shallow. But those who can only see this horror are maybe a little out of touch with the monster in themselves who likes it just fine. Opinions, obviously. — n0 0ne
I simply tell myself to stop thinking about things I can’t change and get on with life. This last mood is really the only sensible one — Herg
I don’t want to remain in ignorance, but I see no choice in the matter, because I just don’t believe the evidence is there. I certainly don’t want to spend my remaining time (I’m 65) in a probably fruitless search. I’ve got better things to do. — Herg
What if you are wrong and you die? How do you know that everything is empty? — Lone Wolf
Only in comparison to dogs. The only thing that makes us stand apart from all the other animals is pattern recognition and an incredible rate of learning - again, in comparison. — MPen89
I'd also point out that we have killed billions of each others, constructed weapons to potentially render our own environment uninhabitable for many years, and it wouldn't take long on a Google search to start reading about some of the sick unimaginable things that some people have done to each other on a 1 to 1 basis. Yes, humans have done great things and in comparison to dogs we may seem like gods (until perhaps we come in contact with some being far more intelligent than ourselves), but aren't we also a bunch of narcissistic demons with a flawed sense of reality? — MPen89
This cannot be true for someone that says that they're in a position to judge the highest, maximal point, to judge infinity. They are either judging what they see as a human being, and their conception in a weak form, or are mightily awesome themselves. — Wosret
Now the essence of critical philosophy is this, that an absolute self is postulated as wholly unconditioned and incapable of determination by any higher thing...Any philosophy, on the other hand, is dogmatic, when it creates or opposes anything to the self as such; and this is does by appealing to the supposedly higher concept of the thing, which is thus quite arbitrarily set up as the absolutely highest conception. In the critical system, a thing is what is posited in the self; in the dogmatic it is that wherein the self is posited: critical philosophy is thus immanent, since it posits everything in the self; dogmatism is transcendent, since it goes out beyond the self. — Fichte
I should also mention that "virtue signaling" isn't even an insult, and signal theorists denounce it as an insult. It just means signaling, and can only be construed as an insult in the sense of dishonest signaling, what values you're signaling you do not actually hold, or enact, or preaching to the choir. The pejorative thing though, is a politicized, rather than scientific notion of virtue signaling. — Wosret
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