
Originally Posted by
DrivenMind
You just don't get it do you? You don't actually know how the afterlife will be anymore than a fetus knows how life will be. There is no way to measure whether or not heaven as it is depicted by hoards of fanatical religious zealots exists or not. The Bible is not a factual historical text. I don't mean to be rude, but think about how crazy you sound.
"I can take care of myself with the help of my theoretical personified divine entity. If you don't believe in my theoretical personified divine entity you can just sit back and watch all the bad things happen to you that are prophesied in my bible." Do you not see how religiously arrogant that sounds? It's okay though, you can just wait and see when as the flying spaghetti monster is gripping you firmly with his noodley appendage, and dipping you into that boiling marinara sauce to spend eternity. Then you will know that FSM is lord.
So who really has a more grim outlook on humanity? The atheist who sees us all as one, but doesn't believe in god, or the believer who thinks we are all but helpless but to watch as doomsday prophecies foretold in a two thousand year old book written by men unfold. Sounds like a pretty defeatist attitude to me, and to think people say Atheism leads to Nihilism...
Do you really think that by not going to college you're going to have a better chance at becoming a business owner. I thought it was all gravy too, I dropped out of college thinking I could just work a regular job and make my own way. But it doesn't work like that anymore. You don't make shit for money working for somebody else without an education, and undisciplined talent isn't worth shit without experience.