I’m a 31 year old childless atheist (all by choice and you won’t convert me). Life is pointless, we are here to occupy ourselves until we die, and when we do die, that’s it. No lasting legacy, no fond memories left in peoples minds. No messiah waiting to welcome me to my reward, it’s a load of shit, nobody gets the reward, we die and rot in the ground, and that’s it. Why on earth would I want to subject myself to 50 more years of living around people who don’t care about me and employers that want to abuse and exploit my body and talents. It makes no worldly sense to keep on. Why continue?
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I’m a 30 yr old atheist. So we already can relate..
You carry on because you don’t want to picture your familys faces when they find you dead
Or hear that you are dead. That thought is what keeps me here..
Yup. But the opposite questioning is also valid. As you said, if this is all there is, if you believe there is nothing more, why not wait until the end? It’s your only experience and the fact there are bad people, bosses etc. shouldn’t diminish it. Nothing else exists, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are. This is all experience you will ever have, for the good or the bad.
I think this is the idea of William Faulkner’s quote: “If I had to choose between pain and nothing, I would always choose pain.”
Picturing your family’s faces finding your body shouldn’t matter also. You will no longer “be” at that time. And will never “be” again.
For the lulz?
I’m gonna make you a bucket list:
1) Read all the “Preacher” comics.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3555843/
2) Go to a rock concert.
3) Play some old videogames.
http://www.abandonia.com/
http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/
4) Get a pet scorpion.
5) Smash a guitar into an amp.
6) Try polyphasic Uberman sleep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep#Comparison_of_sleep_patterns
7) Laugh at a meme
http://9gag.com/
8) Watch a classic cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-mx86qP2L8