(07-04-2010, 03:00 AM)sexhaver1994 Wrote:(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.
oh of course suicide is to hell how convenient, why is this, if life only exists for the sake of an afterlife, and don't tell me "your family would be sad" it's way sadder for a loved one to die with no afterlife because you'll never see them again, if someone kills themself in a universe with an afterlife it's like he just got way ahead of you in line and tbh a couple years or decades is nothing compared to the fact that eventually you will be spending forever there (the afterlife), does god literally just say suicide is bad to try to tie up this logical hole abitrarily??
sorry you got such a shitty outlook on life that you think literally the only reason you should live is so you can go to heaven or something (and that this impulse is so strong that you admitted you wish to have this mindset even if the truth actually turns out to be otherwise, like your outlook is based on what you like instead of the truth) and that you can't imagine that people can find meaning otherwise (like i actually am legitimately sorry for you and i imagine shitty things must happen to you for you to have those kinds of thoughts)
btw you always seem to sound kind of touchy (maybe i'm just imagining that tho) whenever this kind of thing comes up so if i've struck a nerve i apologize ahead of time!!
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