A question for unreligious people...?

Question

If you knew you had only one more month to live, would you seek out God, religion or other spiritual creed? Do you ever think about whether God is real or what is on the other side after death? Do you think people are too caught up in their lives and relatively menial problems to care?

All these answers are surprisingly hostile. I was referring more to people who have no real opinion about God either way not die hard agnostics!

Answer 1

Why would you think that we haven't already sought out god?

I think you're buying into the religious propaganda here, conned into thinking that unreligious people are that way because they haven't really thought about the whole "god" thing. But the truth is exactly the opposite of that - we're nonbelievers because we HAVE thought about it already, and since there's no evidence for a god or an afterlife, we don't believe.

You probably have more than a month to live, but let's throw the question back, stripped of the false assumption: knowing that you have only X years to live, are you prepared to accept the truth about the nonexistence of a god? Or are you too caught up in the menial day-to-day life to be willing to examine the question?

Answer 2

If I had a month to live, I would just enjoy that month.I would not give a thought to god or an afterlife. I've never believed in that stuff before and wouldn't plan on starting. To a person with 1 month to live, what you call 'menial problems' are the only true problems in the world, and the only problems worth addressing.

Answer 3

I use to be a christian and though about it alot. I am now an atheist, and I still think of life, the universe death birth etc.
I wouldnt feel the need to seek out 'God', been there done that.
I wouldnt get any more 'spiritual' than i may be already
I would mainly deal with the things of life and would say my good byes. also I would try to live longer than the given expirary date.

Im not scared of death any more than I was scared of having life.

Even though I am an atheist I still have wonder about life, more so now than as a christian.
I have no idea if there is a 'God/s' of some sort or other.

Answer 4

I would meditate on the design of my experience at the shift in awareness, also called "death".

If you suppose you will be judged, you shall.
If you suppose you will party, you shall.
If you suppose you will review what you have learned, you shall.

All other perspectives are illusions -- the self decides the reality at the primal shift of the Matrix End Game, and sequences the next rotation -- if there is to be one -- accordingly.

Yes, there are guidelines to follow, as much a flower doesn't grow to be a tractor, but the movement of the arrangement of the vibrations is open to the realm of possibilities.

God, by the way, IS the superposition of the existence of ALL possibilities, and the decision to refine or restrict the possibilities is the position of the individual. All individuals everywhere are part of this continuing expansion, and are as "caught up" in it as they allow themselves to be...

The fear that many possess is that the FORM of existence is SO vastly open and different at the cross of the dimensions that they would claim that NOTHING is there, but the soul, the awareness, that which is completely intangible, knows far better, and this awareness supercedes and trumps any position the individual ego might possess.

If we can afford to truly honor that which created us, then we can move beyond our suppositions that were handed down by way of hypnotism and brainwashing -- it's really laughably backwater and primitive to regard the Creator of All-That-Is as an aged, bearded, wrinkled, sitting entity piled with eons of anger, just waiting to hurl dreadful judgements at its offspring -- in fact the idea is terribly desperate and speaks of a desire to control and frighten.

Remind yourself occasionally by flipping your Bible to the front cover that ANY holy document which has the adjective "version" on it is probably a grossly manipulated and edited treatment of the truth, and probably has lost its place in the final way of things...

Peace...

Answer 5

I've given a lot of thought to my lack of belief and, while my mind is open to ideas other than atheism, my impending doom would not be relevant to a change in spirituality.

All other things being equal, I would work on the basis of my existing beliefs (no afterlife/reincarnation etc.) and make the most of what life I have left.

I do agree that people are too involved with menial problems, but spirituality is not necessarily the thing that should replace those concerns. It may not be any particular construct that 'should' be important to people -- as long as they find something that *is* truly important to them.

Answer 6

I am an unreligious person. I am aware that I can unexpectedly die at any moment, and that's just "life", thats all. Noone is immortal.

If I knew I would die on September 10th 2006, I wouldn't seek out any kind of deity.

I would try to put order in my things, prepare myself & others to my death.

I would try to transmit all the "knowledge" i got during my life. I think I can do all this within one month.

I will prepare myself to come back into Earth-matrix. I trust "Life", that's all. I don't need to wonder about what happens "after death": I feel I belong to Life, that's all.

Feeling "scared" about my own death wouldn't motivate me to believe in any kind of deity.

I absolutely don't believe in "hell" or stuff like this.

Answer 7

Honetly, if i knew that i had one month to live, id probably do the things in life that would make god very angry, given there even is one.

Chances are id try heroin, id probably pick up a hooker and id get into a lot of fights.

if im going to die, knowing that i lived a good life, im going to let loose and not give a ****.

ive always believed that there isnt anything after you die. you die and thats it, eternal blackness.

because there is no god

Answer 8

Why would I waste time on a myth, something for which there is no evidence?

Twice in my life I have flat-lined, that is twice I have been dead. Each time I was brought back and there was no after death experience. There is nothing to fear about death. It is simply part of life. There is nothing you can do about it.

If you are living your life in such a way that fear of eminent death makes you change how you act in life, that change is likely something you should do anyway.

Life is enjoyable and something that should be consumed without hesitation, death is no different.

Answer 9

actually if i only had one month to live i wud party
not try and find that bastard ppl call god.
im not too caught up in my life
i just dont believe in god
and some people think its a bad thing, but i think its really wonderfull
i love it and i am carefree
it feels like some what of a free country
when i dont have god breathing down my neck about what i should and shouldnt do

Answer 10

i think of my self as more of a spiritual person than relgious.. i like and believe in differernt parts of a few relgious and squish them into my own beliefs..
i don't think there is a heaven or a hell.. i believe in more in recarination.. or our spirit can just hang about somewhere with everyone else.. :) then once everyone gets together go out and try it again.. at least with the people who are suppose to be together..
i believe in karma.. and that we should treat our environment well.. everything from the dandilions to the spiders.. should be treated with respect and appreciation..
with the way the world seems to be headed it does seem to be going down a very good path and that does have me worried a bit