23 Oct '05 13:29>1 edit
Originally posted by howardgeeYour children live, but as I was pointing out to you before, you will
...but of course the effects of what we have done will continue after we die.
Our children live on ... and the other people we have helped to shape ...and the people they affect..and so on and so forth.
And we have an environmental effect.
Of course we will have absolutely no effect on the world if we spend our entire life praying to a non-existent God!
not according to the "there is nothing after this life belief system."
So in the end even after you die, for you there is nothing, it does
not matter if you were what you'd call a good person, or a bad one,
all roads for you in that belief system end the same way. The same
will be true according to that belief system for your children too,
they too will die and be nothing; therefore, if they were good, if
they were bad, means nothing in the end, if they had plenty here
in this life, or lived on next to nothing, in the end it is the same.
Those you helped shape will all disappear, their lives end and come
to naught according to you, you are spending your time helping
that which has no chance to carry on, and if the life here dies, all
that held meaning here on our little planet would cease to exist.
From nothing we came, to nothing we go, blessed be the great
nothing, I guess according to you.
I agree that we have absolutely no effect on the world if we spend
our life, entire or in part praying to non-existent God, but since
the God I pray to is real; I'm not overly concern about that part.
Kelly