Death is like pre-birth. No conciousness, and no emotion. You wern't sad and just wishing you existed during the time period before you were born were you? Thinking that there is something after death because you feel it's sad that there's nothing won't change the fact that there is something.
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if we die and thats just it, well life's a waste, ain't it?
So the only thing keeping you from enjoying life while it last is the absence of an afterlife?
If you've ever taken an economics course, you learn that things are more valuble when they are scarce. When they quanity of something goes down, and demand for it is high, the price and value will skyrocket. If life is finate, it will therefore be limited, it will therefore be more valuble because of scarcity. If it were infinate it probably wouldn't be valuble.
I hope you don't think it's a waste to eat ice cream, because once it's gone, that's just it. You make the most of it while it's on your plate don't you? You should do the same with life. Make the most of it while it's still there, because once it's gone, it's gone forever.
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Exactly. That is why the percentage of teenagers committing suicide climbs every year as more and more evolution is taught basically summing up this sentence. "We are all animals, we have no point of existing."
Evolution is simply a biological process, not a philosophy to life or a moral code. I didn't cry when Newton discovered the science behind the rainbow, I found it even more interesting than I did before. I didn't become depressed when I learned about evolution, but I laughed at the monkeys at the zoo because we got the better evolutionary path.
Let me add, that how you
feel about a claim,
has no affect on it's veracity. I don't like the fact that there are germs in my house that will make me sick, but that won't change the theory of germs (Germ Theory).
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Unless of course you believe in christianity, then you will die and appear instantly in front of the end of the world and you get judged and go to heaven if you are in the book of life or to hell if you isnt
Wonderful God. Sending someone into oblivion for something as meager as disbelief. Thanks God, for creating me, knowing well ahead of time that I won't believe (being the omniscient being you are), and using that as a justifiable farce to toss me into oblivion. Thanks for hiding from me all my life, then when I use the power of reasoning that you've granted me (created in your image) to come to the conclusion you don't exist, I'm damned for not believing in you. You're a digusting being.
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Question: If there is no god, where did all the absolute truths come from?
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So you say, human people made up absolute truths.?
Yes, what is so implausible about that?
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Question: How could an imperfect being make up absolute truths if he/she isn't perfect? (What if what he thinks is right is actually wrong)
Right and wrong are subjective, not objective. What one precieves as immoral (like polygamy) could be moral to another. Human societies have developed rules to live by as the price paid for a benefical society. It would be turmoil if stealing was okay, therefore stealing is banned for the benefit of the society.
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Question: What is right and wrong? Where did right and wrong come from?
Humanity. You're making an argument from ignorance. You don't know - therefore Goddidit. The Greeks didn't know how lightning appeared, so they jumped to the conclusion that it was the act of Zeus. Your reasoning is also flawed in that you jump from the conclusion that it was some supreme being, to that being is God. What makes you so aplomb that it was God, and not Vinshu?
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of the absent."
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For there to be good, doesn't mean there is evil.
If it's not good then it is evil.
In order for evil to exist there must be good
Good and evil are subjective. Theses statements are imprecise and seem to have a few loopholes. I could take a dump, that wouldn't be considered 'good,' but I hope you won't classify it as 'evil.' Sentence 1 and 3 seem to contradict. As that stupid paper clip in Microsoft Word would say, "consider revising."
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There is no one that is good except for God.
If there is no God, then there is no good.
So the only reason that you have even a shread of decency in you is because you think there exist a God? The only thing keeping you from murdering and raping innocent people is God, and if he were proven to not exist you would go on a Grand Theft Auto rampage? You're a scary person.
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Final Question: Why do people know in the hearts (minds) that its wrong to randomly kill another person? (Which is an absolute truth)
Because the world just wouldn't be a better place if you knew your neighbor could spontaneously kill you, would it?
You've obviously been fed tons of bulls*** and strawmen arguments from your church. Explore the world without letting their bias hold the truth from you.