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For any atheist, the quality of life after physical death is zero. No wonder they are so interested in avoiding it.

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!! Simply splendid, Alamo-Girl!

AntiGuv wrote in answer to the question of What is life/non-life in Nature?: "[this] is a 'meta' question with no real practical bearing. It serves to pass the time of philosophes and mystics, but achieves little more."

What is a "meta-question?" Is there some new practice whereby a person can just stick the prefix "meta" on something and find justification to avoid the subject matter altogether?

Strangely, atheists seem in a certain sense to be quite "reduced" human beings: They reduce their own possibilities by denying God and Spirit. One practical way the reduction works is by refusing to engage the most vital questions of human existence, reducing such things to epiphenomena or outright hallucinations. Any thing the atheist (and any other type of ideologue) doesn't want to think about is simply, conveniently flushed; and then he goes on his merry way, hardly suspecting that the "flushed stuff" is what most vitally pertains to his own existential being, in the here and now and beyond.

Further, it seems to me they reduce themselves when they insist on exiling God and Spirit from the universe. Of course, the very attempt is futile, since i don't think God is planning on "leaving" anytime soon. Still, the attempt to banish Him has very ill effects on the human beings seeking this end, and also on the societies that they help to constitute. FWIW.

Anyhoot, I do pray for atheists, that somehow the Grace of God will bring them to their senses.... I am sure many of them would not appreciate my little efforts on their behalf.

I am hardly ignoring the question, dear. See my post #2198. What I said was that answering that question (or not) has no practical bearing whatsoever on life extension, not that it's not worth contemplating. Everything is worth contemplating.

I really don't care that much what silly nonsense you want to post, but just don't ascribe it to me and we will get along OK.

Thank you so much for your excellent post!

I join with you in praying for all atheists and agnostics!

Your post reminds me of the challenge that you and Right Wing Professor had begun earlier on this thread - that a "fulfilled atheist" is an oxymoron.

How can one be “fulfilled” when he sees himself as an epiphenomenon of his physical brain? What is there to fill for him but his skull with a few more brain cells? And what is the point of seeking recognition at all if the man really thinks he is just an epiphenomenon of the brain?

IMHO, by denying God and Spirit the true atheist life is both shallow and meaningless.