Originally Posted by Esmo

But this if-there-is-no-soul-then-life-must-be-pointless-and-therefore-must-be-crap idea interests me. Why, if death really is the final end, does life have to be so pointless? Most of us have still got 60, 70, 80 even years left to live. The things that we achieve and do in life can give great satisfaction. Say I go skydiving, and after the experience all I have is a memory. I could argue that because I have only a memory, the whole experience was pointless. When I die, I'm not even around to care (unless I have a soul that is, in which case it will probably remain a memory). Just because we may perceive a pointlessness to life doesn't mean that one, there is, or even two, that it's a bad thing. We can still enjoy life, and find a point to it ourselves. And once you behave as if that point is there, then it might as well be.