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Yeah... I understand the sentiment, but as someone who delivers those pep talks, I do think, in all seriousness, that the guy's wrong. If we weren't made out of particles we'd be made out of something else. Particles is just the stuff that stuff turns out to be made of. Anyone who has a problem with this has misunderstood something, or their real problem is something else.
For example, it is very depressing that people who die are gone forever. But this is not a matter of them being made out of particles. It would be just as bad if they were made out of freeplegrunge and then ceased to exist forever.
Actually, I agree. I'm not entirely clear on why people being made out of particles might be a bad thing. It's just the last clause of the last sentence that I find awesome. People talk about how atheists have no morality, or how there is no point to living if you're an atheist, as if this is bayesian evidence against atheism. Besides the fact that they're wrong.
I should have pointed that out.