Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Our Short, Brief, Fleeting Life on this earth

Life on this earth offers a variety of choices; eternity, however, offers only two: a silly God in a silly hell or a silly devil in a silly heaven. For part, I'd rather make the most of my life on this earth - short, brief, and fleeting as life is on this earth. It is the only life we have. It is the only life we know. Life elsewhere after death is a childish, if not a ridiculous - situation. There is no such thing as life after death. After all, when we die, we die entirely, not partially. Nothing is more evident to him who is not delirious. The human body, after death, is but a mass of meat incapable of producing any movements the union of which constitutes life. We no longer see circulation, respiration, digestion,speech, or reflection. Nothing is more natural and more simple than to believe that the dead man lives no more. Nothing is more absurd than to believe that the dead man is still living. Indeed, immortality is the condition of a dead man who does not believe that he is already dead. In the meantime, on this earth, I would rather be an enlightened thinker than be a frightened believer. A thinker is an atheist who cares! If I must leave this world one day, I should, however, like to leave it a better place than how I found it. Not necessarily in the material, but in the humanitarian sense. Poch Suzara

2 comments:

Ken said...

Hi Pock, I have a question about choices. You're making people choose between theism and atheism, Christianity and godlessness, God centeredness and humanism. If this all there is to life, if there is no such thing as life after death, what difference does it make? If nothing created everything, and there is no ultimate purpose in life, why insist on being a proto-evangelist for atheism? According to Richard D in River out of Eden, a world without God has no rhyme or reason, nor any justice. It has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. If that's true, isn't your feeble attempts at making sense of this morass pointless and futile? Your engaging in millstone ministry (Mark 9:42) is not only detrimental to your spiritual well-being, but marks you for special treatment on judgment day. Consider this a friendly warning. Respectfully, Ken Sidadayaw

Ken said...

Sorry, Poch, I misspelled your name. I have another question for you. Would you consider your brain intelligently designed?