I'm sort of with Nietzsche on this one. I can't quote exactly from Thus Spoke Zarathustra since I loaned out my copy, but basically he says, "Everyone who's so obsessed with the afterlife can go live it."
We're here, now. Does it really matter how we got here? Does it really matter what's next? We have no way of knowing.
If you start from an agnostic standpoint, from a perennial maybe, there's no really good reason to believe in anything. If you are biased towards Christianity you will believe, if you are biased towards atheism you won't.
I know one thing for certain: I am here, right now. I want to make the most of my time here. If there is an afterlife, I don't want to spend the rest of my afterlife wishing I'd done things now.
I look forward to reading the counterarguments.
2006-12-21
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