Dorothy Mae
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My apologies and I stand humbly corrected. You are justified in your irritation.See where it says 'non denom' in your panel on the left? Mine says 'atheist'. And if I may quote you...
It appears that you are viewing having hopes as only possible in the present. That is, the atheist can only want to cease to exist, that is, have the hope, once that becomes their present which is nonsensical as you said.'I did not say athiests want to die. I said atheists want to cease to exist once dead.' And went on to say 'It is what they want...'
Maybe you didn't mean to say that. Because (and English is my first language) it means that once an atheist is dead they then want to cease to exist. Which is nonsensical because death and ceasing to exist are exactly the same thing. Hence it isn't something to want as preferred to something else (heaven v Valhalla). There is no choice. There are no options.
But I think we can have hopes today that will be only realized in the future. A young girl might hope to be married and have children while a young girl and not have to wait until she is old enough to do either before she can hope. It is a hope for the future in a future state not possible in the present.
Well of course. As I said, it is possible to have a hope for the future that is not possible to be realized today.Perhaps you meant to say that atheists believe they cease to exist once dead. And that we're quite happy with that concept. Which means something completely different.
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