@MrShinyandNew安宇 that's a random hypothetical question. Here's one right back at you, what if one of those 9000 lives turns out to be that of the next Hitler?
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 By that logic, everyone should go around killing random people, because there's a chance that one of their victims will be the next Hitler.
@Meysamرهادربند I'm going to assume that this statement is a joke, because if it's not, I don't have enough time in the day to explain just how wrong it is.
I am a baseball fan for the portion of the baseball season that involves the Blue Jays in the playoffs for the world series. Needless to say, I haven't watched a game in a few years.
Baseball is a game that has to be experienced at the park, but it's just too expensive these days. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $500 to take my family to a ball game.
@DavidWallace is it because you'd believe in God, though, or because religious people tend to have more involved and tightly-knit communities with better emotional support structures? Couldn't you just have the community and skip the mythology?
@MattЭллен No, I won't. I'm no more capable of convincing myself that God exists than I am of convincing myself that the Easter Bunny exists. I am NOT an atheist by choice.
@Meysamرهادربند Since realizing that I don't believe in him, and that it's all rubbish, my life has become easier, not harder. I don't have to go to church and listen to some blowhard talk about stuff he doesn't understand, and spread misinformation about important social topics, for one thing.
@Meysamرهادربند I dunno. I know lots of people who are literally terrified of going to hell. Their lives are filled with guilt and shame. And they feel guilty and shamed about things that I consider perfectly ok. But religion is full of "sins" that don't make sense. And Christianity and Islam have so many "whoops! that was a bad sin! you're going to HELL!" conditions. People are miserable believing this tripe.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 And many people are blissful too. I have an aunt and uncle who are very religious, and their lives would probably be quite empty if they didn't have God.
When I lived in the South and the Baptists would try to convince me to go to their church and 'accept' God, I'd tell them "Why would I choose to worship a God that has already condemned me on the basis of me being born female?"
@MattЭллен like the belief in the Afterlife. I admit: that was a tough one for me to let go of. I wanted it to be true. But then I want Santa Claus to be real too. Too bad, I guess. The world is the way it is.
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I suppose that's true. I choose to be born female, I should live with the consequences of my decision, or otherwise pray out the female.
@MattЭллен He still falls into the "wishful thinking" category. It IS a bit of a burden to not believe in an afterlife. It means you have to get things right in THIS life because there are no do-overs.
@MattЭллен believing in Heaven would give me peace of mind. But I also feel that you have to deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it to be. Anything else is both futile and irrational.
Logically, belief in the afterlife should have people killing their children, so that the children can skip THIS shitty life and move on to the better afterlife.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Your legacy is passed on to your children, for one. Also, your existence has made an impression on people's lives. So in the corny "your memory will live on" sense, you love your children and impart your values to them. That will propagate through humanity.
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