what would you do if it was proven god does not exist?

Question

However impossible you consider this fact, would your life loose all meaning? would you commit suicide? would you go out killing everyone or stealing or doing "bad stuff"?

how would you cope and live afterwards?

fo real

Well, thank you agian everybody for your answers, my question is a supposition, and you were supposed to answer a suppoisition, not to adress the validity of it, anyways to David; I am convinced that god does not exist, I belive so aover many different reasons, and if there were to be one i wouldnt really care, if he was the christian god, i'd fight him because i find him to be a brute agressive, hateful gbigot god, and i wouldnt agree with him, same as if he was the muslim god, if he was another i'd have to research, so to know where i stand

oh,and about the 666, yupi, yupi1, yupi3, yupi01, yupi237598, yupi938457 and yupi387456329847 were already taken when i created my online persona back in 1997, and since i was an atheist at the time, i didnt really care, its catchy, and after a lot of study i also found out it has meaning beyond the christian mithology

and i also learned stanism is not the adoration of satan either, and if looked from the point of view of christianity, buddhism is pretty satanic too, so no need to change it

Answer 1

I don't believe in any particular god, at least not one defined by current religions. And in many cases, I think that defining that which we cannot, as mortals with no knowledge of an afterlife, truly define leads to tremendous division and strife.

In short, it wouldn't change the way I live. And I think most people, even the religious, would not lose all control and start stealing and killing just because a big man in the sky wasn't watching.

Our natural tendency is to reproduce and protect our offspring. That's biological, and results in such people as police and military forces protecting the extended family of a society. That would not change overnight if people suddenly found out there was no God.

Actually, many people do feel it's been "proven" there is no god, and the decline in the numbers of adherents to traditional religions is a major issue in today's society, throwing such things as marriage and morality into question... some say it is causing the fall of society. I don't.

I think it is just a milestone on the road to a new era of enlightenment where people don't need ancient, unverifiable texts from patriarchal and often racist societies from a time of myth in order to feel good about themselves. I believe in a binding, universal force that connects all life, personally. I can say "god" if I want, but the word has so much connotation that it's hard to use these days without misunderstanding. A higher power, a unifing power. Not even neccessarily a sentient one or an omnipotent one... how would I know, anyway?

I just go with what I feel and I commune with the natural world because it feels good. And life depends on life, so I stay in that flow. Ostracizing myself to a world of doomsaying atheists won't help much, though if asked, I would say I am an atheist. Maybe a spiritual atheist, but an atheist nonetheless. I do not operate as though there is a guiding, omnipotent force looking over me.

Answer 2

Either ways you look at it, does it not at least give you curiosities about whether he exist or not? Just look around you and above you at the sky when you're outside. The question always remains how does all of this come to be.How did we become so intelligent and not at least have questions about the creator of the universe. Science alone can never reall totally prove whether he exist or not. But like I say the evidence is in front of us that he is a great creator. On the other hand, how can we conclude that the universe begins with a big bang? The ultimate question is if the big bang occurs, then what is it that causes the big bang. Even science does not have a definite answer. Everything is based on a theoretical point of view, which yet needs to be proven. Even if the big bang theory is a proven fact for the beginning of the universe, how does all of this came to be if it has not already been planned. Everything, even science would agree that things has been meticulously put together as if it was program or had been planned to do so. How do we answer that, and how does science answer that?
Have you ever seen a movie, I forgot the name of the movie, but the 3 main characters were owen wilson, charlie sheen, an morgan freeman, oh... and willie nelson. There is a part in there where morgan freeman told owen wilson, when owen wilson walked up to morgan's place. And they were talking, and owen wilson thought he had a question, but he didn't ask. Guess what morgan freeman said to owen , I believe is something like this, " Sometimes things seem to appear exactly as they are, but you got to have faith, sometimes." It's a good movie, made a couple years back.

Answer 3

I would go about living and appreciating my life all the more. My question to you however is why does the tone of your question seem so upbeat yupi666? Do you get a chubby asking people these kinds of questions? Actually you probably shouldn’t bother entertaining an answer to any of these questions but since I answered your initial question I suppose the one I really should ask you is what would do if you were to find out that God did exist? Would your life loose all meaning? Would you commit suicide? Would you go out killing everyone or stealing or doing "bad stuff"? I mean the first thing you seem to entertain of us is whether we’ll fall apart like a house of cards. Perhaps your beliefs aren’t so solidly grounded either.

You must have some belief in a God; after all you’re using the number 666 in your name, the number of the supposed beast. If your posing yourself as an atheist than why use the number of Satan in your name?

Are you squirming? fo real

Answer 4

I think life is amazing when you work for the things you want to achieve. Sometimes I work really hard and don't get them. Then I pray to God, but sometimes nothing happens. It doesn't really matter if God exists or not. The point is to be a good person and to make this world look even more beautiful. If someone proved that God doesn't exist, I would feel like I had no one protecting us, but that's all.

Answer 5

i'm in straightforward terms a man or woman with constrained perceptions, basically like all people else. I believe God does exist, yet no longer in any anthropomorphic experience that must be waiting to be shown or measured scientifically. This being the main possibly clarification for the a protracted time previous debate, I end that i won't provide any friendly answer that ought to cajole you the two way.

Answer 6

first of all there is no God.

and yes, the God you are looking for has always been under your nose, the one who knows your every move. The one who knows all your secrets and fears, hopes and joy.

Do I have to spell it out?

Its YOU God Bless it.

So, When all is said and done, and I can still look at myself in the mirror and not feel a great deal of shame or loathing... Then why should it matter if God exists or not?

And NO he does not exist the way preachers say he does... Yet He LIVES in all of Us! and For all we know it could even be a SHE.

So much great things has started coming to my life after I decided I will be responsible for all my actions and not blame pothers for my fault. In a way, all the things the churches taught me, is finding actuation. And No, I stopped going to chgurch a long long time ago.

Answer 7

I believe yes, my life would lose all meaning. I would be very upset at the fact that He did not exist. What would I do? I..have not much of an idea..probably be a little more laid back on everything that's considered a sin. I would cope with it by just staying the way I am...going on the right path until death.

Answer 8

I would print lots of bibles but more fairy tale like. Even if there isn't a god its nice to think there is.

The only thing I would steal or do bad is to aggressively pursue the evidence that proves that god doesn't exist and destroy it or change it.

I think that's what I would do you never know.

For the most part it would not change my life at all unless I had an opportunity to change it.

Answer 9

I would be shocked because all the things I have studied point to the fact there had to be a creator.
but If I knew I was going to die and that was all there is.
I would want to know that while I was alive, I to the best of my ability was obedient to the laws of the bible. I served god with everything I had.

Answer 10

This sounds as if you believe that people who do not believe in god "go out killing everyone or stealing or doing "bad stuff".

A person does not have to believe in a god to be a good person. I know more people who do bad things under the guise of religion than those who don't believe.