The Implications

• There is no God. Not now. There was one before time began, but she blew up in order to create the Universe, you and I. So, right now there is no God. You're on your own. Deal with it.

• Life is a dismal pit of suffering. This has nothing to do with God or lack thereof (see above). Rather it has everything to do with the way nature is: tough and uncaring. Moreover, you've got it pretty good. With wide spread starvation, disease and lack of human rights and other miseries, if you are sitting in front of a computer with access to the Internet, you're better off than most of the people on this planet. So, don't moan about how badly off you are, sweetheart. Rather, appreciate all that you have.

• There may be no God just now. But, when you die and your consciousness joins all the other consciousness that form the super-uber-consiousness, you will become one with every consciousness of every person you've affected. You will mentally and totally embrace people you've been good to - and people you've been evil towards. Suffice it to say, if you've generally been good to your fellow humans, joining the super-uber-consciousness will be pleasant. If you've been an evil bastard, it will be unpleasant, very unpleasant. So, being good to your fellow humans is still important, even if there is no God.

• The sun could go nova and fry every living thing on the planet. A medium to large asteroid could smash into the planet and wipe out most life forms. An idiot terrorist egging on an idiot president of the United States could kick off a situation that ends in a lot of people on the planet dying unpleasantly. Life is fragile. Enjoy it now. Relish it now.

• Some people have all the luck: money, looks, opportunities, intelligence. Most of us don't. Deal with it, but don't moan about it.

• The whole notion of virginity being important and sex evil is a bunch of poppycock. Sex can be jolly good fun and waiting until you marry before experiencing sex is only going to result in poor sexual performance on your part. Better to discover what you like, what you don't like and how to enjoy sex before you settle down with a sweetheart for life. That said, sex can have tremendous consequences, like pregnancy and children who depend upon you. Careless sex can result in disease. Forcing sex on someone who does not want it is violence. Sex, like any pleasure must be dealt with responsibly, particularly in view of the consequences. So enjoy sex - but be responsible about it!

Earth, as seen by Voyager 1 at a distance of 6.4 billion kilometres (Image from JPL/NASA).

• The picture above is our planet from a few billion kilometres out. All of our history, everyone you've ever known or read about. All of your ancestors were born and died on that little spot of light. It's not much, is it?

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