If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?

[slipstrike0159]

Re: If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?

If there is an afterlife, what is your motivation to do everything right in this life? If you have an afterlife, you get the chance to make up for what you did.
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Deliberately sinning knowing its wrong but doing it anyway cause you figure you will just repent later is actually a lot worse than you think it is. The point isnt to think "oh, ill do it now and just repent later". You are supposed to be actively trying not be be a bad person and if you do slip up then you can make things right again. What you are saying just sounds flat out morally wrong to me.

[napalminc]

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I agree with Masterhickle

[masterhickle]

Re: If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?

Deliberately sinning knowing its wrong but doing it anyway cause you figure you will just repent later is actually a lot worse than you think it is. The point isnt to think "oh, ill do it now and just repent later". You are supposed to be actively trying not be be a bad person and if you do slip up then you can make things right again. What you are saying just sounds flat out morally wrong to me.

I didn't say what I did to mean that "Hey, it's ok to sin now because there might an afterlife and I'll have a chance to make up for anything I screw up on."

I said what I did to mean more of this: if there's no afterlife, I think people are more likely to say "Oh sh*t, this is my only life? I really can't screw this one up then."

[Lucifericrucifix]

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I don't see how anyone could want an afterlife. It's a product of the ego. "I want, I want I want." If your life isn't what you wish to be, work to better it. There shouldn't be a want for something more than life because it's everything you can ask for even if it seems the lowest of all possible lives given. You can always work through circumstances. If your life isn't at a high point now, give it time and make sure to work for it. Ultimately, ridding yourself of the ego is better than having to force yourself to live in an afterlife, depending on how you view it. I prefer the existent over the celestial or the invisible haven. I bow to none other than myself and to me, I am my own religion, I am my own higher power. So, I'm obviously not close to ridding myself of the ego, but, I don't know if I'll ever want to do that. I'm content with living in what may be the symbolic "Hell" which is having it, but I'm content with that and ask for nothing more.

[FRANKKK]

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i agree that you should be happy with your life no matter how bad it seems cause it could be the only one you'll have
but i think its just scary that no one knows and will never be able to find out what happens when your dead...until it happens and theres no way to tell anyone

[oD]

Re: If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?

Life is the waiting room for death. It is what you make it. There's no motivation just the fact that life is what you make it. If you want to live a crappy life while you wait then do that, otherwise make the best of it and have some fun until it's over.

[Plo_koon]

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more than likely not to sound weird but god will judge u and how life goes,if uve done well you will be granted with an afterlife if your sinister and evil*sadam* you will not get an after life...death is like sleeping,when you sleep you dont even know it so if you dont get an after life you get an eternal rest w/o even knowing it

[cC@Zz]

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Regardless if there is an afterlife or not you should live life to the fullest because you won't be around forever.

[slipstrike0159]

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For every moment you have are having a bad attitude or are being depressed, a moment where you could be laughing and having fun is lost and you wont ever get that lost time back.

[Ruu]

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There is no motive, as the Verve said "You're a slave to money and then you die". Hoo-yah.

[Lucifericrucifix]

Re: If you don't believe in an afterlife, what is your motivation?

There is no motive, as the Verve said "You're a slave to money and then you die". Hoo-yah.

A sad truth for many. We must make life what we wish for it to be. Break this glass ceiling, and break the boundaries of the monetary system and bring a higher sense of equality and understanding..

But, that's for another time.

[Demon_Lord57]

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Without the thought of an afterlife my motivation for getting up each day is that I can have the most fun possible everyday of my life and to have people remember me for the things that did do not for what I didn't do. When I get my drivers license I will further this no not in a suicidal way either just so that it will be fun. And that everyday is different not the same thing over and over. Another is just to improve my life the way I think the way I act and so on.

[flamingspinach]

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Shakespeare answered this a long time ago.

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

If you are for some reason incapable of comprehending this nice iambic pentameter, here's a summary: Life's pretty ****ty but since we don't know what awaits us on the other side we just make the best of what we have.

[businessman07]

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the answer is 42