[lit-ideas] Re: Shadows, Fog, and Money

From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:44:04 -0400

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> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 6/14/2005 10:43:11 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Shadows, Fog, and Money
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> But that brings up the concept of 'wasting time'. Most of us like to
relax, 
> but we do also have the reality that we're only immortal for a limited
time 
> so we better make the best of it while we ARE here. 


A.A. Why?  Be a beach bum, what's the difference?  



Whatever crazy force it 
> is that makes the life-hunger drive is a genuinely fascinating one -- for 
> it seems more and more that there is no point.


A.A. You're getting it!



 And if at the end of the day 
> (my life) it's all for nought, then I wonder why. I've had friends and 
> people I know die and their memories are all we have now. Apparently, 
> that's the legacy for most regular folk.
>

A.A. Irregular folk too.


>
> To address the problem that several people have challenged me with -- 
> namely, why wouldn't an Atheist want to live a moral/good long fulfilling 
> life? -- I can only say that I can't see the point of believing that I 
> return to nothingness when I die. 


A.A. You'll return to where you came from.  Who knows what energy is?  The
universe is basically nothing at all, mostly empty space.  We're mostly
just empty space too if you look at us on an atomic level.  That's why the
Big Bang was possible.  


It's would even MORE debilitating to me 
> to think that happens than to remain uncertain. Of course all this is 
> personal and I meant no disrespect to all the good atheists. Like
devoutly 
> religious people, I just don't get it. I probably never will.
>

A.A.  The forest for the trees, that sort of thing?


Andy Amago



> living for no reason [apparently]
> but enjoying it nevertheless.
> p
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