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Robert_Sock
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My answer is “no.” All my hope is in Jesus, without which life would lack all meaning.
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itullian
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wrong question, the right one is…
Would life be worth living if there is no afterlife?
the answer is no, it’s a blink of the eye and then noyhing forever forever forever…
Would life be worth living if there is no afterlife?
the answer is no, it’s a blink of the eye and then noyhing forever forever forever…
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bmullins
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I would contend that God being the source of all life, then if there was no God… there would be no life.
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prodigalson2011
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On those occasions I struggle with doubt, I’ve never known a deeper pain or feeling of emptiness.
Funny thing is I never felt that before I accepted Him into my life. Since that time, though, any sense of separation from Him is unbearable. Like the searing pain of a burn, it seems His way of telling me to take my hand off of the stove of despair (forgive my purple prose.)
Funny thing is I never felt that before I accepted Him into my life. Since that time, though, any sense of separation from Him is unbearable. Like the searing pain of a burn, it seems His way of telling me to take my hand off of the stove of despair (forgive my purple prose.)
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itullian
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A God doesn’t necessarilly mean an afterlife.
no God doesn’t necessarilly mean there’s none.
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surritter
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Can’t answer – question is self-defeating! God is the source of all life.
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VeritasLuxMea
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True, I suppose. I really don’t think the existence or non-existence of God has much of an effect on whether life is worth living.
It might, but I just can’t think of any reason why it would…
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runningdude
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Human life is inherently dignified. So yes, living would be worth it.
The difference would be that when we die, we’d die. With God, He died, that we may have eternal life.
The difference would be that when we die, we’d die. With God, He died, that we may have eternal life.
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Et_Cetera
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Steak would still taste good, the beach would still be glorious, sex and friendship and music would all still exist and would be better than nothingness. I’d rather have a fun flash in the pan than never have anything at all.
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Qoeleth
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I think would life be worth living is not an answerable question. In one sense, no, of course not. But in another sense, life is the pre-condition of the question itself.
It is like asking- “Is this question worth writing?”
No, it is totally vacuous. But if I did not write it, no answer could be given.
Do you mean, “Do the sufferings and troubles of life outweight its pleasures and joys?” Of course. Everyone know it. Some try to decieve themselves, though.
It is like asking- “Is this question worth writing?”
No, it is totally vacuous. But if I did not write it, no answer could be given.
Do you mean, “Do the sufferings and troubles of life outweight its pleasures and joys?” Of course. Everyone know it. Some try to decieve themselves, though.
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VeritasLuxMea
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I think we’re talking about subjective meaning here. The evidence we have is that you did write it. Therefore, to you, it was worth writing.
So life would be worth living without God if A) there was no God and B) people continued to live.
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itullian
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would it be worth going to Disneyland if you would have no memory of it?
think…
think…
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InJesusItrust
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No, there would then be nothing to anchor a meaning to. It’s all subjective, and that would mean you would have to PRETEND there is a meaning. But in your heart and mind you would know that it’s nonsense.
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bmullins
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I’m not just talking about ‘afterlife’. I’m saying that as Catholics we believe that God is the source of all life. If there is no God, then there is no life in the first place. Afterlife wouldn’t matter because without God, there would be no one alive in the first place.
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Layp3rs0n
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If there were no God we would be nothing more than bags of chemicals. Our opinions and lived would be the same value as dirt. With no Absolute, that is God, nothing has meaning ni matter how we feel since our thoughts and feelings would be the result of nothing more than chemical reactions in the brain. So, no, life would have no instrinsic value.
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atheistgirl
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My answer is yes.
I have no gods in my life, and yet I find my life full of love, happiness and meaning.
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Qoeleth
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Are you sure? In our day and age, ‘optimism’ is so deeply drilled into us, it is difficult to step outside of it.My answer is yes.
I have no gods in my life, and yet I find my life full of love, happiness and meaning.
Sarah x
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danserr
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Close. For life to be worth living requires both God and immortality.
reasonablefaith.org/the-absurdity-of-life-without-god
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danserr
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Sure, but the question was not, could you subjectively think that life was worth living if you don’t believe in God, but if God did not exist, would life be objectively meaningful, which is a different question.My answer is yes.
I have no gods in my life, and yet I find my life full of love, happiness and meaning.
Sarah x
reasonablefaith.org/the-absurdity-of-life-without-god
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Qoeleth
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It does not follow that “life is worth living” simply because people continue to live without God. Sometimes, people just continue to live out of intertia- because there is no plausible alternative- or the alternative is to messy, painful and socially unacceptable (and, indeed, sinful). I mean- think of battery chickens in tiny cages- life isn’t worth living for them- but they don’t commit mass suicide. Often, life just goes on when the love of life has long since fled.
The soul is then like a caged bird in the body, longing to be free- to go to the Heaven of inaccessible light- or even the Heaven of non-existence. It cannot open the door of the cage itself- it waits for the finger of God.
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