I'm certain that when I die, I will cease to exist. To be perfectly honest, that doesn't worry me. In fact, I kind of like it.
Most people don't really get nihilism (at least not Nietzschian nihilism). Nihilism is the belief that the universe /existence doesn't have any meaning. That is, we can't reason our way to any universal principles of morality or to prove the existence of a higher power. Nietzsche argued that this is only negative because we valued this higher power. When people realise God is dead, it's kinda depressing because we'd been banking on Him for the last 2000 years.
But it's not quite that simple. Nihilism was originally coined as the idea that there is no objective meaning to the universe: there is no higher power and no objective morality that we could reason out of existence. But the idea that the lack of objective meaning is the same as the lack of meaning is a religious conceit: it is only meaningful if one presumes there is a God (or whatever).
What is left is subjective meaning and morality. But given that's all there was anyway, all that's lost is the conceit. Sure, when we die, that's it. But that means that I have to live my life in the most meaningful way I can. It means we (the collective everyone) are responsible for the society we live in. That's not negative: that's positive and empowering. If I want to live in a moral world, I have to act to create the world as a moral place. If I want to be a good person, I have to decide what a good person is then live my life according to that standard.
Oh dear.
Another thing that it means - to some people - to be christian.
What a very nasty, nasty man. He's worth gazillions, apparently. No doubt the Gilbert Deya Ministries flock think that he is a persecuted, righteous man - and probably are continuing to stuff money in his pocket as fast as he can count it. Sigh.
I just found a classic example of this. Be warned - it's very sad, nearly made me cry in the middle of the office.
Very soon many Christians will be celebrating the birth of the person who has taught the half of the World the principles that they (live)/(try to live)/(do not live) their lives by. It is a time of Joy.
Other persons are happy to go with the season of goodwill while it is there.
Others just have a few days off, eat and drink too much, spend too much money on unwanted presents and suffer the company of people they would rather not be with.
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