@rendrag,
rendrag wrote:
How good the world would become if we could abandon the nonsense of religion and the supernatural.
Just love the one short life we have and embrace the simplicity of oblivion.
When you're young, you only think about immediate concerns and you don't see things adding up to longer-term patterns w/ consequences.
Once you begin to see how your choices and actions contribute to consequences within your own life, that of others, and the future more generally; it is impossible to achieve bliss through ignorance.
So all these lifestyle activities designed to numb consciousness/conscience in order to indulge in the present moment with reckless abandon are doomed to result in agony when sobriety returns and the irreversibility of bad choices dawns on the mind.
Fortunately there is religion to save us with divine forgiveness and/or other methods to achieve some level of detachment from what would other wise be an unbearable weight of regret and/or denial.