Do you care what happens next?

Jean Paul Sartre~Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give life a meaning.While it is true that we do indeed invent all manner of nonsense to cope. Regardless of ones religious belief or lack thereof; all but the most ardent nihilist can see that there is more to us than the sum of our parts. Nonsense or not we choose the bed of our making. Some are comforted by the thought of heaven and some are comforted in the belief of a life well spent.It is perhaps the regretful man that must face his twilight looking into the emptiness of his own absurdity and thus comfort himself that none of it really matters.I myself tend to fluctuate between every one of these depending on my mood.

I care what happens next. I care because I think life is beautiful and want it to continue in what ever form it may.

Hi Tangle, Yes I realize that. But when I see something beautiful I do not see just the chemical composition of it. And if in your mind we are nothing more than ape-shaped bags of water you probably didnt get the least bit misty eyed during this scene in Soylent Green. When I see a tree it is more to me than 50% carbon, 42% oxygen, 6% hydrogen, 1% nitrogen.

I will venture forth a guess ol' chap and say...quality of life"?

Hi Tangle,I was once dated a very beautiful and intelligent, audiology grad student vegan.
She had a very light complexion with tiny brown freckles on her nose and cheeks, raven black hair cropped in a page boy. Her eyes were green as emeralds and just as cold. And the body? What a body! She was the kind of girl you'd have on your arm and say to yourself: wow look at me with this beauty.She looked at me as if I was some hedonistic, ignoramus because I ate meat. She asked me why I ate meat and I said because I liked it, that I enjoyed a good steak, thus confirming her thoughts about me. But I digress; I asked her if my eating steak was in any way different than her wearing leather shoes. Me attempting to point out her hypocrisy. All the conversation got me was her not finding me worth talking to anymore and me spending that Christmas wishing I would of shut the fuck up. Did I mention she was beautiful? So whats the point in this? Our quality of life is, I would hope, a few rungs above a cows. And if one eats the cow or wears the cow it really doesn't matter to the cow. But damn does it matter.

Hi AZPaul3, Yes, absolutely. I do. It is when someone is spouting off nihilist clap trap that "nothing matters, and we are no more important than a amoeba. Usually for the sole purpose of being provocative. You probably run in greater intellectual circles than I. Absolutely, I do. Again I agree.
In my opinion after years of EVC discussion on the "supernatural" I have always held that if it happens in the universe then how can it not be natural? Some folks believe that the only worlds that contain God/gods are those that contain creatures that are there to invoke them.Edited by 1.61803, : added word:"to"

Say what?! Yes this is true but eventually I would of been caught in a Texas Road House I fear. How is being a self professed vegan wearing leather not a exercise in hypocrisy?Why does someone get to call me out on promoting animal cruelty for eating a steak but I do not get to reciprocate for them wearing leather?Just because someone ate a cow, that does not make it somehow "ok" to wear its hide. If one is operating under the premise that buying and using animal products contributes to the cruelty of animals.Now I do realize there are strict vegetarians that do not eat meat and do so for strictly dietary reasons. But this was not the case. I know, me and my big mouth I spent that Christmas wishing I had done so.