Quote of the Day

[edenfalling]

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.

Comments

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

This. So very this.

[edenfalling]

Yeah. It's like, it doesn't matter what your position is vis-a-vis gods and spirituality and materialism and so on and so forth. You try your best to do right by others and by the world because doing good has intrinsic worth. Any other justification is icing on the cake at best.

Reposted because apparently the extraneous sentence I deleted did not want to die and clung on to the end of the prior sentence. Stupid computers.

[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.

[edenfalling]

Your icon! *is overwhelmed by cute*