Quote Originally Posted by wayoftheleaf
It is just simply the fact there is absolutely nothing to live for if you dont have promise of something better afterwards.
The whole point is that everybody should understand that life is a cycle, when you'll die, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, phosphore will be released from you and used by bacteria to reinsert theses molecule in the food chain, in the end, feeding other humans or animals like you do currently. The problem with some humans, is that we have reached a relatively higher sens of reflexion and thinking than other species and now some of us are thinking way too much and end up inventing the idea of God so it comfort themselves. But live your life for what it is now, instead of what it could be afterward according to a some bloke thousands years ago. Accept that life hasn't any deep reason, it just happened, a great coïncidence nonetheless, but it has no purpose but to live and to die.

Couple of months ago I had this reflexion while staring at my mother in her coffin at the funeral home. My family (aunts, oncle, grand mother/father) are all devout christian. They were all sad and crying, staring at my mother and everything. I was too, of course. But the reflexion I had was that, if they really believe firmly in God and the so-called idea of life after death, why are they sad if they are otherwise convinced they will see her(or any relative who dies) when they die? I should have been the only one sad as I knew for sure I wouldn't see my mother again, and certainely not when I will be dead. The only answer I came up with was that deep inside our subconsious, everyone knows that life after death isn't true, and so the reaction of crying comes from their subconsious which makes you realise you will never ever see your relative again. Now, there's something to be sad about, otherwise, crying is non sense for devout believer.