How can you live without a belief.?

Question

If you are happy and great living without a belief system...how do you cope...really..
are people without a belief...(the most looked down upon people) atheists...are they brain dead and living by what they heard from someone...and just going with it...Likes..for the time being its easier living without thinking?

Cause..I mean..I think you really have to ask yourself...are you ready to die.

Answer 1

Atheists have beliefs, but they are more shallow and selfish. They have to create meaning and purpose in life because God gives them none. If you ask them they will tell you they are happy but they go their whole life feeling like something is missing and they figure its just the human condition playing with them, but its not, its the Holy Spirit.

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet. -Nahum 1:3

Answer 2

There are various types that believe something that may not fall into your cookie cutter system. Some are atheists and some are not. May I ask you just who says those are 'the most looked down upon people'. Someone willing to let another (aka Christians) convince them if they don't do what they are told, bad things will happen to them after they are dead. Christianity is the largest, most successful political lobby of all times. Those that choose their own belief system based on altruism and compassion for all kind are far from brain dead and living without thinking. Some people place more importance on what they can actually do to help in the present rather than gathering brownie points for their hall pass into the afterlife. Perhaps you could spend a bit more time collecting your thought before posting them, then the chance for you to come across a wee more intelligent the next time you ask acrimonious questions to the general public might be a possibility. Just a suggestion.

Answer 3

I'll be ready to die when the time is right. Everyone dies there buddy.

Just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean I'm brain dead. Quite the contrary. I'm happily married with a child and a dog. I was actually raised in a Catholic household, saved when I was 16, then turned my back on the church. Why do you ask?

Because I believe in Evolution, I believe in the Big Bang, I am pro-life, I support gay marriage, and I don't believe in God. Those are all things that go against your beliefs.

I don't see a God, I don't talk to a God, I don't hear from a God, and I think the bible is a great fiction novel.

And yet, I keep breathing, keep living my life, and just go with it.

Answer 4

I have a belief system because I am Wicca. But I have known many atheists and been friends with many and most of the ones I have known are happier than the average Christian. They seem more grounded in life than most Christians because they know and understand that since there is no God in their opinion, they are responsible for everything their self. Christians tend to think God owes them much and when he does not give them what they feel the deserve, they can get very depressed or mad.

I mean look at how they get mad when they cannot convert people, but Jesus never forced religion on anyone and if they rejected him, he just let them go their own way and was always ready to receive them, but he never, never kept harassing people because they did not accept. Too bad Christians cannot learn from Jesus.

Answer 5

Not really,

But somehow I don't think pretending that I believe in imaginary sky friends will make that any different. If I'm bummed out about dying, it really doesn't matter what I choose to believe.

The end result is always the same. I will die without belief exactly the same way I would die with belief. In that manner, I go and make arrangement in my daily life regardless of the unavoidable end of my life someday.

Personally I do what makes me happy that's enough for me. What make you so special as to elicit the interest of an all powerful, all knowing super being? Last I looked you're just another jerka$$ typing on his keyboard, how could that possibly make you special?

Answer 6

All people have some sort of belief system, something that makes them want to continue to live; and to keep themselves happy. It just doesn't have to be the same belief system you have.
Many people believe they must "save the souls" of everyone, and that is an unobtainable goal. So to live your life, only or mostly, worrying yourself about others probably causes more harm than good.
Other belief systems than the fundamentalist Christian may be : enjoying the sunny and rainy days, nature in general; helping the less fortunate in REAL MATERIAL ways like giving money or serving food in a soup kitchen; or raising their children to respect all of humankind.
If Christ were to be on earth today I truly believe (and I am a Christian) the last thing he'd call himself would be "Christian". We mind other peoples' business too much and tend too little to keeping our own house in order.
People of ignorance (please look up the word) talking too much does more harm than all the atheists on earth.

Answer 7

My belief system is moral atheism - I cannot prove it, so I have to have faith that it is true. I do have a set of morals (right and wrong) that I live by, part of which is to treat others with respect regardless of their own beliefs.

Because I believe that this life is all that I have, I try to use every day that I have to the best possible. I feel that it's important to do good works because my life is so fleeting, this world is all that I have, and I will never have another chance to make the world a better place.

I do fear death, like many people with and without religion. I can never know if I am correct - if I am wrong, I am going to Hell. If I am right, then I am going to simply cease exisiting. But people with religion can never be absolutely certain either. They can't know God's mind, they can't know if they are going to Heaven rather than Hell, so they can only hope and pray to their God that He save them. None of us will truly know until our deaths.

Answer 8

I am an Atheist and like to think of myself as being quite mentally alert. I have choosen to go agianst the general flow of things and refuse to follow a doctrine that has been set out easily for me and instead choose to forge my own path through morals and spirtiualism.

I feel that this gives me a greater inner strength because the way I act and interpert actions is based on a system that has been hashed out completly by me, it is therefore not subject to vauge guidelines, outdated mores, or embarrasing contraditictions.

My spiritual self is stronger than average because it lives today and is able to change, while many's died on the cross hundreds of years ago.

Yes I am prepared to die. It would be a tragedy (for my friends and family) and I might have some regrets over lost opportunities or things never said, but I will not be afraid. Death is an important part of life and to fear it is to sacrifice some of the most important parts of yourself.

To live in fear is to live in a constant state of self-preservation. To live in self preservation is to think not of others (no matter how much doublethink you can pull off) and to not think of others is to be a bad person.

Answer 9

Writers/Philosophers of religious works did not corner the market on beliefs, thoughts and theories.

Just because you choose to occupy your mind with religious philopsophy doesn't mean others have the same need.

During difficult times we know that things will get better not because something will grant us a reprieve, but because we expect good things to happen.

I am not ready to die now just because I enjoy life. However, I don't believe in a Heaven or Hell so I don't fear punishment in death.

Answer 10

There's no people in the world could live without belief, maybe they just have another than God's worth to believe, such as themselves, people like this never trust any one, besides themselves, cause they think there's no people in this world as good as they are. I think if someone doesn't have something to believe, seriously, they must be so desperate or they have a traumatic life, and I feel so sorry for what they have done to their life. Life's could be beautiful, it depends to us.

Answer 11

My birth, life, and death were set in stone the moment the visible universe began. I'm very happy with that. I use a great deal of thought at all times (well, when I'm not sleeping, at least).

What's there to fear about death? It's just a natural part of life -- the end of it. When I die, that's it, no more me, my body decays and if I personally have lived my life right, history forgets I ever existed.

I fail to see the problem here.