 | kamylienne (84) 04/19/2004 | Might be good for some, but for me, I would rather find happiness in the time I have right now, the time I'm guaranteed, to find little shreds of happiness. Relying on the possibility of an afterlife while ignoring the beauty around you now seems pretty wasteful.
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 | Enkidu (39) 04/19/2004 | O my soul, aspire not to eternal life, but rather exhaust the limits of the possible. Pindar said it rather well 2500 years ago. Happiness is now and in the moment, not in the future.
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 | scarletfeather (53) 04/19/2004 | What matters is what's going on RIGHT NOW, not what may happen when we are gone. Nobody knows what the afterlife is like anyway, because nobody has come back and enlightened us on that subject.
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