Posted by SLS on January 16, 2016, at 17:59:16
In reply to Will we get redemption?, posted by john locke on January 16, 2016, at 16:07:18
> Do you think that we will eventually get redemption for our tough circumstances? Whether in an afterlife or another life? Or did we just draw bad cards and thats all there is to it?
My vote is for the latter.
It is not a pessimistic view, I don't think. I am a fairly spiritual person. However, I don't like wasting moments betting that there will be a better time waiting for me after my death. My time is now. I just pray that the future will hold for me better days. I am grateful that things are better for me now than they had been for decades. Still, I know that I am not as resilient as I used to be. It seems that I am more likely to experience existential crises when I relapse completely. If I had faith in an afterlife, perhaps I wouldn't experience such things. I would feel that death provides relief and a life in paradise. Perhaps I would have committed suicide by now were I not to believe that death brings nothingness.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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