sock puppet wrote:Runtu, I respect you, but do not count me among that particular 'many.'
I keep talking about Mormonism because I find it fascinating, given that I am 5th generation Mo (now liberated), that a myth could have such a hold over 4 generations of my progenitors. I guess rationality is the recessive gene that I got.
But you have no more compelling evidence for the "myth" of Mormonism, then for the "myth" of atheism. It all really comes down to "why" and no one has the answer to that question.
It is particularly fascinating to see people live a life of denial because others make them feel guilty about their past behavior.
For example?
Then they feel they've paid their penance and so are accruing credits that they will be paid in a hereafter.
This has not been my experience in the Church at all. There is no "checks and balances" for the afterlife.
The reason I don't need to believe in a hereafter is because for the last 25 years (and going forward), I make each day count. No regrets. I need no reward in a hereafter. I don't short myself during this life, so no need for spoils in another life to balance the scales.
The problem with this is that this life is utterly meaningless from your point of view. Sure, you can make each day count, but for what? You are just going to die, and so are your beautiful children and lovely wife. You are all going to die, and in fact, you are dying right now -- we all are. So how can life without an existence after it be meaningful at all?
I spend time with those I want to, not with those I do not, and when those I love die and become ashes, I am warmed by the many, many memories I have.
Those "memories" are just electrical and chemical impulses in your brain. They are meaningless, and if you do not accept the divinity of our souls then you cannot attribute meaning to anything.
I did not short myself in time with them, so no need to hope for a second chance.
The problem is that time is so relative, it blinks by in a second. Indeed, time exists, really, all in one single moment. You will wake up one morning and be 85, and not believing in an afterlife prepare to cease to exist. How depressing.
No, I do not want Mormonism to be true.
I do, and I am glad that it is. It gives us a sense of who we really are and why we are here. Instead of biological mishaps or randomly generated sentience, we are divine beings who live on after this life.
Fortunately, the evidence is against it anyway because I would follow the evidence wherever it may lead.
If this were true, you would still be involved in the Church.
