Will, these questions will be answered differently atheist to atheist, so I pose this to you rather than atheists in general:
What is the source of your morality? What is your benchmark for determining what is right and wrong? What are your influences in terms of how to live a good life?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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