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

[Giulio Prisco]

On 2020. Aug 2., Sun at 16:21, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> giulio wrote - Sure I can. If truth means unhappiness, then screw truth.
>
> How can you call yourself a scientist?  bill w
>

I don’t.


> 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.
>>
>>>
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