The only belief that unites all religions as well as "non believers' is a general agreement that their is always something 'more' to life. In short the only thing anyone agrees on is their is always something 'more' regardless if you believe in god, aliens ... or whatever. The paradox is many people will disagree....and insist on their own religious or ideological box as being the 'only' rendition of "more"...IE Jesus, Allah, YHWH, or even science and any of its practitioners ideological and philosophical leanings (which do exist...ouch!) etc. ha!
Science has convincingly shown that consciousness and perception of "self" is an illusion, and thus acting as if "you" are real, or matter to the universe, is as fallacious and irrational as believing in a supernatural creator or ghosts. "You" are a short-lived perturbation in the block-universe. This reality, in combination with the nevertheless undeniable subjective experience of my own self, narrowly privileges selfish pleasure-seeking over all other moral codes, which themselves are utterly devoid of rational justification.
That people should care that their children's required Google-docs stored (and other methods) essays written in school are also being scooped up and subject to government algorithmic analysis with unknown present and future consequences. This isn't paranoid, it's the current state of things, and no one in either teachers' organizations or parents (or grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc.) seems to care at all about their own children. Apparently no one agrees that it's a problem, since the subject is never brought up or discussed.
when you die, nothing happens. You cease to exist and there is no soul, heaven, hell, - nothing is revealed, you do not become one with consciousness, etc.<p>But I hope I'm wrong
Peter Thiel loves asking this question to startups. What's funny is that writer Sarah Lacy posed it to him once (and uses it regularly at Pando Monthly events), and his answer was apparently, "That's a really hard question to answer."<p><a href="http://pando.com/2012/04/19/peter-thiels-pointed-questions-to-ask-startups/" rel="nofollow">http://pando.com/2012/04/19/peter-thiels-pointed-questions-t...</a>
I believe a happy person would be made poorer (in the ways that matter) by winning the lottery. I'm the only person I know who <i>doesn't</i> want to win the lottery.