Sorry to be answering this, I know you were looking for answers from people who don't believe in god, I believe in god but I do not believe that we have a soul that goes somewhere else when we die. here's why:
Right in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we are told that the soul is not something you have, it is something you are. We read of the creation of Adam, the first human being: “The man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word used here for soul, ne´phesh, occurs well over 700 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, never once conveying the idea of a separate, ethereal, spiritual part of man. On the contrary, the soul is tangible, concrete, physical.
Look up the following cited texts in your own copy of the Bible, for the Hebrew word ne´phesh is found in each of them. They clearly show that the soul can face risk, danger, and even be kidnapped (Deuteronomy 24:7; Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 19:11); touch things (Job 6:7); be locked up in irons (Psalm 105:18); crave to eat, be afflicted by fasting, and faint from hunger and thirst; and suffer from a wasting disease or even insomnia as a result of grief. (Deuteronomy 12:20; Psalm 35:13; 69:10; 106:15; 107:9; 119:28) In other words, because your soul is you, your very self, your soul can experience anything you can experience.
Does that mean, then, that the soul can actually die? Yes. Far from being immortal, human souls are spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures as being “cut off,” or executed, for wrongdoing, being struck fatally, murdered, destroyed, and torn to pieces. (Exodus 31:14; Deuteronomy 19:6; 22:26; Psalm 7:2) “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die,” says Ezekiel 18:4. Clearly, death is the common end of human souls, since all of us sin. (Psalm 51:5) The first man, Adam, was told that the penalty for sin was death—not transfer to the spirit realm. (Genesis 2:17) And when he sinned, the sentence was pronounced: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) When Adam and Eve died, they simply became what the Bible often refers to as ‘dead souls’ or ‘deceased souls.’—Numbers 5:2; 6:6.
2006-08-03 04:54:00
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answered by Frax 4
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Big fat sigh. I have NO idea. Neither do you, nor does anyone else. However, some people BELIEVE it goes here or there or nowhere, and they've mistaken their beliefs for fact.
Frankly, I don't give a ****. There's nothing I can do about what happens when I die. I'm not going to let fear of the unknown cause me to do silly things like join the bandwagon and worship something I don't believe exists, and subscribe to pointless rules and regulations.
I'm woman enough to face my fears head-on, admit I don't know and leave it at that.
End of story.
I really need to get out of this section. What a bummer it is!
2006-08-03 04:45:23
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe that after death your soul continues existing, and if your lucky you pass on to another realm of existence to continue your growth. That's all this human experience is, a learning experience. We are trying to learn how to be that which we were created from (some divine being) in the midst of varying trials and tests. Some of us learn the lessons we came here to learn, some of us don't. For those of us who do, our soul will continue on to bigger and better learning experiences until the mission is complete and we once again are apart of the divine energy that created us originally. For those people who don't learn anything, their soul will continue to incarnate on earth until they learn what it is they need to learn, then they'll move on.
I don't believe in "God" or religion, but i'm quite spiritual, and that's my opinion.....
2006-08-03 05:06:10
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answered by Ms. Tesi 3
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I agree with the first answerer, there is no such thing as a soul. There is just as much evidence for a the existence of souls as there is for god(s) - none.
2006-08-03 04:43:23
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answered by Anonymous
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Nobody is making any such claim. YOU have to prove a "god" exists before "it" can be refuted.
There is no such thing as a "soul", only consciousness.
2006-08-03 04:49:13
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answered by Anonymous
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Too easy. You don't have a soul. There's no proof of one so why believe there's such a thing.
This is it. This is life. Nothing after and nothing before. Enjoy it.
2006-08-03 04:43:04
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answered by Amphibious Nature 3
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Where was your soul before you were born? Do you care where it was?
Think about that sometime. Then you might gain a better understanding of atheism.
2006-08-03 04:46:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Our consciouness fades away with the lack of oxygen to our brains and poof we're magically dead as a piece of lumber.
2006-08-03 04:46:26
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answered by Anonymous
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What makes you think you have a soul?
2006-08-03 04:44:52
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answered by Anonymous
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No such thing as a soul.
2006-08-03 04:42:56
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answered by nihilistic_reality 2
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