07-04-2010, 03:00 AM
(07-04-2010, 02:49 AM)DrSlouch Wrote: i don't get how there being an afterlife would make you want to live, i mean if you know there's free infinite disneyland waiting for you after you die why bother with this imperfect world and just go there faster??
e: and then even if there were some hypothetical reason not to just speed up the process, that is extremely lame and it would make me feel like everything i'm doing is meaningless except for the sake of being good enough to get my ticket into paradise
it's like "here, don't worry about finding meaning in your life on your own, got some for ya right here welp better sit back and enjoy it"
suicide is a one way ticket to hell fyi. the thought of there being an afterlife secures my status as being alive because if i put an end to it myself i would end up in a world worse than this one. without the forces of heaven and hell vying for my soul i wouldnt have to think twice when "speeding up the process". and again, without an afterlife, there is no "meaning" to living at all, even if it's a superficial meaning.