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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  3101 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lost Another Friend Yesterday

I find being an atheist makes the world 1000% times more interesting and fascinating, and it makes me want to experience all of it, even more.

I am only going to exist once. This is it. Everything around me is the most amazing experience, because there isn't "something better waiting for me after I die."

All of this exists because of unfathomable complexity developing over unfathomable timeframes, and all because of a few rather simple rules about this universe we live in. That makes every single thing - the smallest bug, pencil nub, or grain of sand - inconceivable full of amazingness, if you take a moment and really appreciate it.

That's what atheism does for me.

And since death is final and absolute, to me, it makes me incredibly present and connected to the world around me. I'm not gonna be here again. So let's enjoy all of it!