Stop going on about how when you die, "Poof! You'll be gone."
I guess my expressed opinions and beliefs have attracted a
number of atheists as my Facebook friends.
That's OK. We do still live in a
free country, despite what certain GOP asshats would have us believe. But, one thing that troubles me about
atheists is this. They seem as desperate
to defend their position as a dedicated evangelical is to convert others to
their belief system. Proselytizing is
still proselytizing, you know.
One of the positions that these people take is that anyone
who believes in a heaven, or any kind of afterlife, is being extremely
self-centered, or egocentric. They try
to say that once you're dead, you're gone.
Poof! Some of them go on about
how you will be absorbed into the greater universe or some such crap. But, essentially, they want to dissuade you
from believing in anything after this life.
Here's the thing. I
am self aware. I am indeed very
egocentric, because I have been aware of myself and everything in my world has
always been seen from MY perspective, and I really do not see how any of us can
expect that to change. I have to quote
Spock on this, and say that any idea where my ego, my "self," ceases
to exist, on some level, after death is just illogical. What the hell is the point of making me self
aware if that "self" is going to just end? Not logical at all.
So, if it is all the same to you, I'll stick with Descarte
on this issue. "Je pense, donc je
suis."
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