We are not to die and be buried, we are to find God, and reach Nirvana, to get to Heaven, to become glorious in knowing that we have led a good life
Are you sure you understand what Nirvana means?
Changing the subject ever so slightly, have you ever read anything about Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrance?
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your live will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence--even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!' Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' If this thought gained possession of you, it would change, you as you are or perhaps crush you.
Pretty cool, imo. It seems to me anyway, that there are potentially many ways to find meaning and purpose, to give the life we live gravity, without God.
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