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by tsimionescu 60 days ago
Why is that tied to some notion of an afterlife? If anything, it seems to me that the reality that this one life is all any of us have should make one care way more for their fragile peers, and for making it the one life they have count. As The Doors once put it, "no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn".
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Mikhail_Edoshin 59 days ago
In afterlife certain things are lost; but certain are not. And those that are not are affected by what we do in this life.

It's like you got a drop of a somewhat muddy water that is the center of your life. The drop will remain in the afterlife. Everything you do either makes is muddier or cleanses it a bit. This change is what stays.

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I011010011 60 days ago
It doesn't have to be. But it does indicate accountability, and some people do hope get away without it.

I can't think of a more important idea for a conscious living being than some hope for an afterlife, perhaps a better one than is here.

Most people resorting to and flood the discussion with rational X or Y are simply getting high off of their own sounds and are plain dishonest with themselves and others.

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