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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
---Marcus Aurelius


That pretty much sums it up, I think.

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Date: 2009-12-16 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rurounitriv.livejournal.com
This. So very this.

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Date: 2009-12-16 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rurounitriv.livejournal.com
Yup. And generally, when you make the world better, it's better for you as well as the people you help. So even if you don't believe in any kind of moral justification - it's stupid to be selfish, and it's stupid to put any more hate into the world, because hate begets more hate and just makes your own life more empty.
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