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Originally Posted by peter12
Except as Christianity makes clear - your life has moral weight to it. Finding out the right course of action is an epic drama in and of itself. There is nothing worse to the person who openly lies to himself by saying that the whole thing doesn't matter, and that we should all stop worrying about, and buy a better sound system.
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Can you call it an "open lie to himself" if it's what they truly believe? Seeing as we don't know the answer to the question, coming up with our own answer and living by that is just as much of an option as anything else, isn't it? Is it anymore of an open lie to oneself than the idea that being good during your life on Earth grants you access to a heavenly kingdom of righteousness?
I would also say that you can hold that your life carries moral weight without the necessity of an afterlife to strive for (for lack of a better term). I could think that our lives are all completely meaningless from the standpoint of "we have 80-90 years hear and that's it", and still be of the opinion that my life has a moral weight in the way that I would still like to see a moral progression of humanity overall and I contribute to that during my life by being a good human and treating others with respect.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
To be clear, you're just making this up, right? How would you expect me to interpret that? Of all the possibilities of how the world, the universe, life, death, etc. works, you seriously think you may have just lucked into an answer with your musings? I don't get this. Like, what value does your baseless wild guess have? What's wrong with saying 'I don't know'?
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Not to answer for WCK, but isn't everything said in this thread 'made up'? I don't think there's anything wrong with saying "I think this..." than there is with saying "I don't know". There is only something wrong with saying "I know..." or "you're wrong" about anything to do with afterlife outside of the realm what science can currently answer definitively.