I will pray for you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Hindsight is 20/20. I often try to think of the Last Things and I do think it helps me keep perspective a bit. Hoping you have many more opportunities to create good and to find peace. Metanoia is real!
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#12I hope for your recovery, and that you will be able to live a long and fulfilling life. However, I want to challenge you with one thing: > Ethics matter. > I don't believe there's any life after this one... > I don't believe that faith is an out, or that you can apologize or donate your way out of past behaviors. Why would it matter if there is no life after this one? If there is no life after this one, maybe you sho…
Even without believing in a life after this one, a lot of people seem to find immense value in living ethically/morally for its benefits in this life: a clear conscience, building trust, strengthening relationships, etc.
Even though life can be cruel, there seems to be an overarching goodness built into the universe that benefits those who float in its current.
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#13I hope for your recovery, and that you will be able to live a long and fulfilling life. However, I want to challenge you with one thing: > Ethics matter. > I don't believe there's any life after this one... > I don't believe that faith is an out, or that you can apologize or donate your way out of past behaviors. Why would it matter if there is no life after this one? If there is no life after this one, maybe you sho…
Because other people matter and building a caring and just society means we’ll all get further in the one life we have. If you require the threat of eternal punishment to do the right thing and be a good person I’d question if you truly are.
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#15I hope for your recovery, and that you will be able to live a long and fulfilling life. However, I want to challenge you with one thing: > Ethics matter. > I don't believe there's any life after this one... > I don't believe that faith is an out, or that you can apologize or donate your way out of past behaviors. Why would it matter if there is no life after this one? If there is no life after this one, maybe you sho…
> Why would it matter if there is no life after this one? If there is no life after this one, maybe you should just "get over it".
Because for as long as we are capable of caring, we should care that other people have to live with the consequences of our actions.
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#16Good luck.
Recoveries are hell too. Buck up for that too.
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#17Good luck.
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#18Wishing you a good recovery and a long life to have fun and to pass on your learnings
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#19> 3. Ethics matter. I don't believe there's any life after this one
Serious, non-troll question: why bother?
If there isn't any scope outside of the current perceived existence, and we're all so much "smart dirt", then the difference between kindness and malevolence seems moot.
Note: I do subscribe to an explicit meaning to life, so this is posed more to express bewilderment at the alternative than reveal any anxiety on my end.
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#20If you want to know the key to Heaven is asking God for forgiveness for your sins with the intention of becoming better. Repent and believe in the Gospel, go to the traditional Latin mass if you can