Atheists: Afterlife?

Question

I'm curious how many atheists are about that believe *gulp* in an afterlife in any way shape or form but not a deity?

Read Afterlife as "After Death Existance"

Answer 1

I can't say that I believe in one, but as a human being who fears death and the end of my consciousness, I do hope there is an afterlife that is fair and free, and not based on a belief in things that seem too impossible to be true for me as an atheist.

Answer 2

i dont believe in an afterlife, and dont understand why others find the concept of death with no afterlife so worrying.
My afterlife consists of being buried in a biodegradable box and having a tree planted over me so that my matter can continue to exist by being converted into energy for other life forms.
i.e I'd like to be eaten by worms, turned into nitrogen and know absolutley nothing about the process
this view keeps me content, just as heaven keeps others content

Answer 3

So if there is no afterlife, what is the purpose of this life?

The way I see it is that, when you are in the womb you do not need to grow hands and feet, what would you use them for? What about vision? There is nothing really to see there, is it? But all of us grow all these organs because we going to need them in the "real world", when we are going to be born. They do not serve that much purpose in the womb but surely they are indispensable after birth.

In the same way, in this world, I believe we attain certain spiritual qualities and we continously grow, or we should strive to grow. Maybe there aren’t many logic reasons why we should do that in this life but I surly believe it will be of utmost importance in the next life.

I also imagine that if we cannot find God in this life probably we will enter in the next life with more handicaps....On this world you can see physical/mental handicaps, in the next life probably will be spiritual handicaps...

Just a thought....from a believer

Answer 4

I'm antitheistic... but I don't tend to label myself athiest, so I don't know if I should answer this. For all intents and purposes though, I suppose its applicable to me.... so here goes:

... NO.

^_^

Of course, thats saying nothing of what I believe takes place upon the event of death... but it certainly isn't "life" by any definition.
That is to say that I believe a subtle difference from most athiests.... Rather than literally ceasing to exist when we die... our essence effectively becomes undefined again... It essentially becomes everything rather than nothing... or at least an indiscriminate part of everythingness. That which religious nuts call a soul: the energy which animates us..... is reduced simply to being energy again.... freed and devoid of fabricated pattern or purpose.... much like the cells that make our bodies. It breaks down and dissipates.

We, as people, cease to be ... but that which makes us does not by any stretch of the imagination... and even our consciousness is thrown into the grand primordial soup of all existence that I typically refer to as Potencia.

Answer 5

I would like there to be an after-life. If string theory is true, what is to say we can't live in one of the other 7 dimensions we can't see or something? Of course, these are unsupported things, so I wouldn't put my money on them though I'd like them to be. If there is no after-life, oh well. I really wish there was someone who had died for a few years and came back to tell us. It would also solve the atheist v. theist argument and we'd all finally know scientology is the one true religion, just kidding, I hate scientology.

Answer 6

I believe in the Buddhist concept of a cosmic consciousness rather than an afterlife as such. Any afterlife is an illusion created by desire and has no permanence.

Answer 7

There's no afterlife.

The only way we live on after death is in the memories of others. Perhaps someday they'll figure out how to download a brain's programming to a computer. Then there is a chance of coming back. There are others banking on science figuring out how to revive their frozen corpses sometime in the future. I don't think that's as likely.

Answer 8

No afterlife. It's over, done. You cease to exist. I find it arrogant to assume we deserve an "afterlife" in some sky carnival while no other creature does or even that you go to heaven while everyone you don't like goes to hell.

Answer 9

This has nothing to do with the question.. But I'm getting closer to finding the Christian hater who gives the thumbs down to all the Religious questions and comments from atheists.

Answer 10

We have no evidence whatsoever for an afterlife, so no, I don't believe in it.