I am probably a small 'c' christian, in that I accepted many of the values of my parents. As a child, I could hardly resist ;-)

Those values were and are: hard creative work, fairness, honesty, helpfulness, respect, tolerance, inquisitiveness and a sense of humour (very important in our home, as in many). Both my parents were churchgoers and I sang in the church choir of St John the Baptist.

I've grown up to be an atheist. None of my family ever questioned that because (see previous list). I didn't quite understand and thus was not able to explain my atheism fully until I discovered self-organizing systems. Life is emergent, and it stops when the system decays or is damaged beyond repair. There is no homunculus, nor any need for one.

This short-termism absolutely does not detract from my inspirations from the act of living now. I feel only privileged to be alive, even while knowing it will end - permanently.

The only immortality I can hope for is that some people will remember me as a good person. It won't matter what people think of me because I won't know - but the last bit of 'belief' left in me hopes that it would be so.

You can't be me, I'm taken