[ExI] Meaning in life (Was: Who has a vote that counts?)

[William Flynn Wallace]

giulio wrote - Sure I can. If truth means unhappiness, then screw truth.

How can you call yourself a scientist?  bill w

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 9:02 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 2020. Aug 2., Sun at 12:17, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 19:27, Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I’m sure many atheists are very good and moral people who find
>>> meaning in life, but I also think they are sad. Thinking that I’ll never
>>> see my loved departed ones would make me extremely sad, to the point of
>>> choosing to log off.
>>>
>>
>> You can't believe something just because it would make you happy if it
>> were true.
>>
>
> Sure I can. If truth means unhappiness, then screw truth. I choose to
> believe that either there are natural (or feel free to call them
> supernatural) mechanisms of afterlife/resurrection in the universe, or
> we’ll engineer such mechanisms and find ways ti bring everyone back.
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stathis Papaioannou
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