Was raised Catholic by my family, hopped off that wagon ages ago.
My philosophy to life (and after) comes from my dad: there's nothing after life. It just ends.
Believing in something that comes after just makes you at peace with whatever problems there are in your life, in stead of facing those obstacles and fixing them.
You want a big ass mansion and celebrate with all your loved ones in an idyllic garden? Good on you, but why wait until after? Just do it now. Work your ass off if you want the mansion, make plenty of time for your loved ones and idyllic gardens may require some gardening, gardeners or including your local park or yard into your definition of "idyllic gardens"
If you want those things, go for them! Don't wait And if you want my advice: start with the loved-ones-thing first. You never know when you might no longer be able to do it.
As Tim Minchin said it in "Storm":
But here's what gives me a hard-on:
I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon.
I have one life, and it is short and unimportant...
But thanks to recent scientific advances I get to live
Twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses.
Twice as long to live this life of mine
Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine
Of sharing curries and getting shitty at good-looking hippies
With fairies on their spines and butterflies on their titties.
He's talking about the science vs alternatives debate, but I feel it applies to a great many religious themes as well.
It's just my 2cents. I don't expect other people to be convinced, or to believe the same thing or whatever.
It's an essential freedom to believe whatever you want to believe, and as long as you're not hurting others, I have no business deciding that for you, but I'll happily debate it with you. Preferably at a bar, or somewhere with a decent liquor cabinet
My philosophy to life (and after) comes from my dad: there's nothing after life. It just ends.
Believing in something that comes after just makes you at peace with whatever problems there are in your life, in stead of facing those obstacles and fixing them.
You want a big ass mansion and celebrate with all your loved ones in an idyllic garden? Good on you, but why wait until after? Just do it now. Work your ass off if you want the mansion, make plenty of time for your loved ones and idyllic gardens may require some gardening, gardeners or including your local park or yard into your definition of "idyllic gardens"
If you want those things, go for them! Don't wait And if you want my advice: start with the loved-ones-thing first. You never know when you might no longer be able to do it.
As Tim Minchin said it in "Storm":
But here's what gives me a hard-on:
I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon.
I have one life, and it is short and unimportant...
But thanks to recent scientific advances I get to live
Twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses.
Twice as long to live this life of mine
Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine
Of sharing curries and getting shitty at good-looking hippies
With fairies on their spines and butterflies on their titties.
He's talking about the science vs alternatives debate, but I feel it applies to a great many religious themes as well.
It's just my 2cents. I don't expect other people to be convinced, or to believe the same thing or whatever.
It's an essential freedom to believe whatever you want to believe, and as long as you're not hurting others, I have no business deciding that for you, but I'll happily debate it with you. Preferably at a bar, or somewhere with a decent liquor cabinet