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Jim Jeffries on heaven and hell

kymbossays...

As an Australian, there's something about this bloke that really rubs me up the wrong way. The contrived okkerness, or something. I want to like him, but I just can't. He reminds me of every loudmouth wanker at the pub, talking at the top of his voice. And he dresses like them too.

Gallowflaksays...

Anyone who honestly doesn't care about death, or who isn't disturbed by the idea of their own intelligence and consciousness being permanently destroyed is either A: not aware of what that actually means, or B: alien enough to me that our differences are completely irreconcilable.

Deadrisenmortalsays...

Ahem, well...

Will we all die? Yes of course.
Do we know when it will happen? Very few do.
Does anyone truly know what happens when you die? Certainly not.
Is there anything that we can do to influence what happens after we die. Religious people seem to think so and worry about it incessantly. Atheists feel that we cannot and as a result tend not to worry about it.

From what I can see there are essentially two ways to view the subject, theistically or philosophically.
Theists will say that what we do before death determines what happens to us after death. I see this as the more selfish perspective on life. "Help other people and save yourself."

As for the philosophical view point...

"Death, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, since when we are, death is absent, and, when death is present, we are not any more. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead."
- Epicurus, 341-270

My advice: Stop worrying about what happens after you die and instead focus on the life that you have to live. Live it to the fullest and positively influence the world around you while you are here. Help others not for your own salvation but rather only for the sake of the act of kindness itself and the effect that it will have on others. Your true immortality will come from the legacy that you leave behind when you are gone.

>> ^Gallowflak:

Anyone who honestly doesn't care about death, or who isn't disturbed by the idea of their own intelligence and consciousness being permanently destroyed is either A: not aware of what that actually means, or B: alien enough to me that our differences are completely irreconcilable.

MaxWildersays...

What he is saying is funny, but the way he is saying it is not. He is an "angry atheist". He has realized that there is no god and he is *not* happy about it. He has had a rough life, and at some point decided that there is no joy to be had here or anywhere else. I would not want to have a beer with him.

Either that, or he had a really bad day and it came through in his tone. But I think his statements about eternity being undesirable indicate that this is his considered attitude.

thinker247says...

Of course he's an angry atheist. He was probably taught as a child that a loving God wanted nothing more than to keep him safe and make his life and afterlife wonderful, only to eventually realize that the loving God hides behind supernatural veils and treats humans like shit. Who wouldn't be angry at that worthless "God?"

siftbotsays...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'jim jeffries, standup, comedy, heaven, hell, atheism' to 'Jim Jefferies, standup, comedy, heaven, hell, atheism' - edited by eric3579

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