01-15-2007, 01:52 AM
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Location: Worcester, MA
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Re: If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?
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Originally Posted by FoJaR
well i guess it's all how you think about it.
like i would say that the semester that you spend in a class is the important part, and you would probably say it's the little letter you get as a final grade.
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I think a better analogy is if the semester you spend in class or the time spent during the rest of your life working more important?
The fact that the afterlife would be eternally long while life isn't is enough to tilt things.
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Originally Posted by Henri Poincaré
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.
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