As I was brushing my teeth a thought occurred to me. If there's one thing we love to do as humans - the world over - it's attempt to predict the future. Universally we aim to predict weather, stock fluctuations, someone's response to a question, anything so that we may compensate ahead of time and plan. Some cultures take it a bit more seriously than others even employing psychics and those with clairvoyant skills to aid in political choices. Ultimately it's entirely unknown if such fantastic foresight is even possible, but it doesn't stop people from making predictions about things.
If to be truly carefree is to be a planning-atheist in the truest sense of the word, then it is to be unmistakably unique to be so. It is said that to be a true atheist is to be either very dumb or very confident. I would assume the same is true of people who could care less about what happens tomorrow or the day after. In the cosmic balance that seeks to make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer so too would it aim to make the unplanned [un·plan·id] fall ass backwards into wealth and success.
Show me a man who doesn't care about his future and I'll show you a man whose past gives him no reason to care.
I've always thought the only person who was truly carefree was the one who knew it was "safe" not to worry about tomorrow. I firmly believe that an atheist must come to terms with their beliefs in order to achieve some kind of carefree outlook and be totally happy with life, whereas someone with beliefs in an afterlife may find it more natural feeling good, knowing this life isn't the end... just my experience though.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't being agnostic be more carefree? Being an atheist and challenging the faith of the religious with your own faith that the things they believe in, don't exsist, seems kinda counter-inuitive... Why not just be open to any possibility that can't be proven otherwise?
ReplyDeleteIf one of the many religions out there happens to be true and I be damned in the afterlife for not following their ways then so be it, that won't change who I was on earth. In the event that there is no afterlife, then my time on earth will have been my heaven or hell and who I was and how I felt about what I did throughout my life will determine whether it was heaven or hell. Thats how I look at it at least, I figure it's a decent way to encourage myself to be a good person.
Wall of text again, some pretty interesting topics popping up here and getting me rambling. My apologies to anyone who dislikes walls D:
I suppose agnostic would have been a bit less of a confrontational word.
ReplyDeleteAs far as religion as a subject, I've tried to steer clear of it. Posts like that can get some people all charged up.
I have heard it suggested that Jean Paul Sartre embodies what complete and utter courage truly looks like. And "carefree" is a temporary state of mind at best, regardless of where you are parking your beliefs. Don't you think?
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