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Life Expectancy Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 00:03:27 b7c4c6 No.14403

Does it bother you that Atheists are less likely to live as long as religious nuts (at least in America)? Particularly when you compare Hitchken's "Fuck it, I want a cigarette" attitude to the long-lived 7th Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California?

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 00:37:10 237a1b No.14407

Where's your data? If so, no because it is what it is. You can't believe in something you ordinarily wouldn't, or have it seem more believable to you because it would make me live a few more years.

Belief in Santa may make me live longer but I can't believe it if it doesn't seem plausible.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 00:47:18 b7c4c6 No.14409

>>14407

For Loma Linda there have been studies and its been in the media. They have a demographic of vegetarians which has been enough to counteract the effects of air pollution and ground water pollution in the city.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23332529X/abstract?cc=y=

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 00:59:34 b7c4c6 No.14410

>>14409

Forget the dead link. The media is all over it.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-blue-zone-loma-linda-20150711-story.html

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 01:22:07 237a1b No.14412

>>14409

Ok. Find an atheist group who believes in good health and I'm sure you'll find the same results. Atheists are more of an individualistic, think-for-yourself type so I doubt you find an atheist group solely based around health. Most I know just go to regular gym sessions, there's no need to make it a supernaturally-based experience.

You're also forgetting that being an outlier in society is in itself stressful, especially when you're outgoing about it as opposed to being an outgoing figure for a group, christianity, that infested the American populous from the onset and left a legacy. You're missing data to account for that. Did you do research on that aspect or did you just get euphoric when finding it and thought you'd like to spam it here so you can immediately feel superior without having to think too much?

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 01:33:49 9d8d50 No.14413

>>14410

this is a specific group. On average atheist are more educated and wealthier so I would assume they live longer, but this comes down to personal choices in the end.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 01:47:02 5d1e00 No.14414

>>14410

So a specific group of people live healthy means that religious nuts (in America) live longer than atheists.

However, you don't take into account the fact that this is just a subsection of religious nuts and doesn't cover the whole of them. Plenty of other religious nuts shorten their lifespans through bad living habits and even doing things like fighting against vaccines for one reason or another.

Hitchens lived a pretty unhealthy life but that is just Hitchens. I've never smoked in my life and I've never drunk any alcohol so I'd probably life longer than he. However, my dietary habits would probably kill me faster than another atheist who strives to avoid smoking/drinking and eat better.

Anonymous 03/03/16 (Thu) 20:03:55 6d3afc No.14434

>>14413

Ont forget that the highest occurrences of obesity in the US are among the highly religious, especially the south.

Anonymous 03/06/16 (Sun) 11:35:27 3cc3e1 No.14478

Of course. The people who spend their lives trying to convince everyone life is meaningless are less happier, unsurprisingly. Research shows that excessive unhappiness is bad for your health.

Anonymous 03/06/16 (Sun) 13:00:35 478adb No.14479

>>14403

There is no correlation. You pick one small group over another.

Anonymous 03/07/16 (Mon) 02:49:46 3d5200 No.14490

>>14478

If you think like if meaningless without gods, your life is a shell.

Anonymous 03/11/16 (Fri) 01:44:36 f92752 No.14543

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>>14403

Atheists are the only people who know we have something to lose. You see everyone else is in this delusion that their existence is never ending. This may reduce their stress leading to better health overall but they will never have the motive for developing life extension. In fact religious people have more to supposedly gain from their death than they would ever have in life.

So yes it does bother me when people who really should live to be 300+ die so early. But its not like there is a genuine effort to develop life extension anyway. A few sparse groups here and there, but nowhere near where it should be. And in many way's that's religion's fault. You see religion exists to soothe people's worries over dying. And the legacy and persistence of religions have ingrained this attitude that death isn't something to be avoided as much as possible but given in to.Therefore instead of working to live another day people settle with those 70 years. Cucks all of them.

Anonymous 03/11/16 (Fri) 11:25:03 5d1e00 No.14549

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>>14478

That doesn't change the fact that there's no proof of any gods and that, aside from survival and reproduction, there is no inherent purpose to life.

The universe isn't here to stroke your ego. Some people are able to look at the facts and be fine with it and move on and some can't.

However, this is all beside the point as you're attempting to correlate happiness in life with belief without any evidence to back that claim up.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 20:51:56 e08cb0 No.14609

Life is but a brief interlude in between infinite expanses of nothing and it will end whether you expect it to or not. how long you live doesnt mean anything nor what you do with time. death is but a return to something you've known long before you were even thought of. Best live life on your own terms, and when that old friend comes knocking on your door greet it with a warm hug, a smile, and a goodbye to the time you were given. Simple as that.