Absurd

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absurd

Title text: The aliens were about to offer immortality, but saw this and changed their minds.

Votey

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We believe in the afterlife because we find the alternative absurd.

Within an ordered cosmos, so many unlikely events have conspired to make an impossibly complex machine called "you," only to have it live out a bewildered instant before disappearing forever.

Cats don't invent after-lives, because they aren't smart enough seekers of pattern. They have no sense of the absurd.

It stands to reason that if we ever meet alien life, it will have at one time believed in an afterlife, only to later discover that it was wrong.

Conventional warfare is probably useless against any beings who've navigated across the galaxy to our little blue pond of a planet.

Psychological warfare is our only chance of safety.

Let us spread truth, for it is more powerful than any atomic weapon.

I'm not sure congress is prepared to fund your astroexistentialism' program.

Well, the good news is that nothing matters anywhere anyway.

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I hope the aliens speak english

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