不信教的人生有什么意义？# WaterWorld - 未名水世界
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有教徒这样问过我。
我的回答是：这个问题你搞反了。你应该问，如果死亡象征着永生的开始，那尘世间的
生活还有什么意义呢？
正是死亡的不可避免，才让人生变得有价值。The sense of impending doom makes us
what we are and gives meaning to our existence.
"Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by
an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Hea
ven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not
mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me.
It didn't hurt much. It wasn't even as bad as the sting of a bumblebee. I am
really happy here! It's so much fun. I'm glad the driver was drunk. If he h
adn't been, I might not have gone to Heaven for years and years and years. I
would have had to go to high school first, and then beauty college. I would
have had to get married and have babies and everything. Now I can just play
and play and play. Any time I want any pink cotton candy I can have some. E
verybody up here is happy — the animals and the dead soldiers and people wh
o went to the electric chair and everything. They're all glad for whatever s
ent them here. Nobody is mad. We're all too busy playing shuffleboard. So if
you think of killing somebody, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and do i
t. Whoever you do it to should kiss you for doing it. The soldiers up here j
ust love the shrapnel and the tanks and the bayonets and the dum dums that l
et them play shuffleboard all the time — and drink beer."
From "Happy Birthday, Wanda June" by Kurt Vonnegut （与马克吐温齐名的美国小说
家冯内果）
我的回答是：这个问题你搞反了。你应该问，如果死亡象征着永生的开始，那尘世间的
生活还有什么意义呢？
正是死亡的不可避免，才让人生变得有价值。The sense of impending doom makes us
what we are and gives meaning to our existence.
"Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by
an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Hea
ven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not
mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me.
It didn't hurt much. It wasn't even as bad as the sting of a bumblebee. I am
really happy here! It's so much fun. I'm glad the driver was drunk. If he h
adn't been, I might not have gone to Heaven for years and years and years. I
would have had to go to high school first, and then beauty college. I would
have had to get married and have babies and everything. Now I can just play
and play and play. Any time I want any pink cotton candy I can have some. E
verybody up here is happy — the animals and the dead soldiers and people wh
o went to the electric chair and everything. They're all glad for whatever s
ent them here. Nobody is mad. We're all too busy playing shuffleboard. So if
you think of killing somebody, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and do i
t. Whoever you do it to should kiss you for doing it. The soldiers up here j
ust love the shrapnel and the tanks and the bayonets and the dum dums that l
et them play shuffleboard all the time — and drink beer."
From "Happy Birthday, Wanda June" by Kurt Vonnegut （与马克吐温齐名的美国小说
家冯内果）
