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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]for people who "never bought it" even though you were exposed to religion as children, how did you deal with the fact that no religion means no afterlife?

That is, how did you deal with the fact that life is finite; that you would die and that would be the end of it?[/quote]

If life is all there is and then we are just dust, then I better live a full and meaningful life. I better treat people well since their memories of me may be my only legacy. I better try to contribute and create so that my one life has as much purpose as possible.

Also, I think it is useful to focus on the consequences to your actions here, in this life, rather than in an afterlife. Thinking about how your actions help or hurt the world around you is a much more immediate way to think about morality than checking to see if they violate a list of behaviors handed down from a mysterious entity. I don't need a god to tell me that killing something would be wrong. The golden rule works pretty well. Read some Kant. It's pretty straightforward.[/quote]

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