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Atheists & Agnostics

rurallib

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3. I came to this realization over the past couple years and it has been

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:09 PM

Dec 2017

quite an eye opener. When people you know die and you realize - well that is it for them. It truly makes you realize just how valuable every moment is.

It also makes you realize that those who are the biggest sellers of the concept of the afterlife - the elites, the church powers, the priestly classes in many religions - don't really believe. Otherwise why would they be trying to grab all the world goods and pleasures that they can while they can?

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Being an atheist shows you that every minute is sacred [View all] trotsky Dec 2017 OP

Conversely, being an atheist means addressing the possibility that time does not exist. byronius Dec 2017 #1

Humans tend to think finite. safeinOhio Dec 2017 #2

I came to this realization over the past couple years and it has been rurallib Dec 2017 #3