This is for the Athiest members?

Question

This is what i want to know....if you don't believe in God then what do you believe in? (and who does your wedding ceremonies...) if you don't believe in the spiritual realm then do you just believe that after you die thats the end? i've notived that most athiest believe in evolution, which is the scientific aspect of life. well its said that we are nothing but energy, and according to science, energy can't be destroyed, it just changes form. so i think that could be proof of a spiritual esistence. but i am not forcing my beliefes upon anybody...

Black Parade Billie...you used to be chirstian. sounds to me like you just got lost on your journey with God. your faith has dwindled...

Answer 1

"Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink." -W.C. Fields

Answer 2

I am an atheist, I dont believe in god, heaven, hell...anything!
I do believe that after you die you are nothing. The same thing you were before existence...nothing...your body breaksdown and becomes part of the earth along with every other organic lifeform. The fact that energy cannot be created or destroyed is true, however once you die...all of your energy is consumed by another being, it is just recycled...there is nothing spiritual about that. I can understand how thoughts such as these are refused by so many, but I also believe that it takes an intelligent brave person to acknowledge that life is short, and nothing comes next. Religion is just a crutch to support your emotional state as you cannot deal with reality. It is similar to a drug that calms you before an operation or proceedure, thats all!

Answer 3

Even religious people have to go get the piece of paper from the gov't. You don't need any more than that to be married, but I have non-religious friends who got a judge to do it (in a national park - it was beautiful).

What do I believe in?

I believe in people. I believe we can fix our own problems and we don't have to wait around for some god to do it, when this hypothetical god has shown no interest in helping us out in the past.

I believe in science. When an article is published in a peer-reviewed journal, I can believe that every effort was made to make sure the facts and conclusions are reasonable and authentic, even if I'm not capable of making that call myself - I believe in other people to do it for me.

I believe in the natural laws of the universe. I believe that they can't be broken, since we have never seen it happen. I believe that they have resulted in everything in the universe, including us, through natural processes - because we see this happening, and we know that it CAN happen.

I believe when we die, that's it. Game over. Make the most of the time you have - don't waste you life on drugs or alchohal or religion - do something that benefits humanity, be it art, medicine, science, literature, what have you.

When we talk about energy being created or destroyed, we're not talking about you, exactly. I think you're referring to some sort of energy soul here, and we don't have any evidence that such a thing exists. Therefore, it cannot be used to further argue for an afterlife.

Answer 4

You are jumping to conclusions here by saying that "energy can't be destroyed, so it is evidence of spiritual existance." If you destroy a nuclear reactor, will that energy become spiritual life? Obviously not.

Atheists believe in the here and now. When you die, you don't go anywhere. You become nothing the same way you were before you were born. As for weddings, I personally don't believe in them for ANYONE, but I understand that people do and probably I'll have to go through one someday. I plan on a secular wedding (legal only), but if the person I marry wants to a religious wedding, I have no problem going through one.

Answer 5

Well, basically I believe in an absence of a divine being. Existentialism holds the real answer, and the real guidance to MY life. None of the holy mumbo jumbo ever even came close to making any sense to me. I believe that science explains everything, but humans just aren't even close to being intelligent enough to decipher all the answers. As we've become exponentially more technological, self-aware, and INTELLIGENT as a species, more and more evidence has come to light that we really live in a scientific world, where answers are almost uniformly found through scientific means. Judges and captains can perform wedding ceremonies. And well, I don't really know what to say about your theory of energy except that it sounds nice and if it gives you piece of mind as we hurdle mindlessly through space for but a nano-second in the great scheme of things on this temperate blue ball-- then that makes me happy for you, my fellow confused man. Thank you for not pushing your beliefs on me. Anyone that does, will be wasting THEIR breath until MY LAST breath.

Answer 6

The energy of the human mind is nothing more than the energy that is passed between neurons in the brain. When we die, that energy dissipates in the form of heat in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics (when we're dead, we're no long taking in energy in the form of food, nor directing that energy towards the maintenance of order, so we undergo entropic decay).

I believe in nothing. Literally. I 'hold as true' three concepts, but only because if they were not true, then knowledge could not be attained:

1. Math & logic are valid. Truth is a logical state; if logic were not true and valid, a thing's truth-value could never be known.
2. Observations, unaided and aided, are valid. Aided observations must be supported by both unaided observations and math. For example, microscopes do not suddenly change the image, they just get narrower in focus and more in detail, without a noticable jump, and the microscope operates on the theory of optics. If we could not trust our direct observations, we could never obtain data to process with math and logic.
3. If a supernatural realm exists (neither accepting nor denying), it plays no role in the natural realm and does not reveal itself in any way. If it did, then knowledge could never have permanence, as the God of Gravity could decide to change the gravitational constant of the universe tomorrow, and we could never be certain of knowledge.

Each of them is required for knowledge to exist, and thus they are the only things I accept as 'true' purely axiomically. Everything else, I demand evidence and proof.

Answer 7

Hi! Yours is the only question I have been able to answer tonight! Everyone else seems so confrontational.

1. I don't believe in god so what do I believe in? Errr, kittens? And babies? And good music? I don't believe in . I just don't believe in god. It's like if I said to you "If you don't believe that Invisible Space Monkeys control the earths weather patterns, what DO you believe in?" You don't believe, therefore, that Pink Unicorns control the earths weather patterns. You believe they occur naturally, I'm betting.

2. Yes, after I die I cease to exist. Just like...what I was like before I was born.

3. Yes, my "energy" gets reused as my body is recycled. My "conciousness" however, doesn't carry on. I can't see any evidence that conciousness can exist without form. Not only that, it doesn't make logical sense to me.

Thanks for your interesting question AND for asking so nicely! No offense taken! :)

p.s. And my brother-in-law did my wedding ceremony, but that was when I was a christian. At my funeral I would request that friends officiate (or have a humanist or unitarian minister handle things)

Answer 8

Not all wedding ceremonies are religious. I am asian and we have to celebrate marriage because it is a tradition or what we call culture. Anyway, I might be buddhist, might not have a god just like confusionism or Tao/dao, and I will get married. We might be just some blop of molecules but don't u think that you undergo evolution since when you were a baby till u turn adult and drop dead? Yeah we change form but how the way you think can change form?

Answer 9

I got married by a JP. And I believe in the love of my family and the wonderful facts and advances science has brought us. Education and intelligence are the only way to go.

Theres nothing after we die. Our bodies go back into the earth and our nutrients support new life.

No, I don't think that is proof of a spiritual existance.

Answer 10

I believe in no form of deity or supernatural higher power. Weddings need only be a religious ceremony to those who have faith. Yes, when you die, that's it. While there is evidence that the human body uses millions of electrical impulses, saying that we are "nothing but energy" is just another way of saying "we have souls". There is no evidence of such a supernatural phenomenon.

Answer 11

Nothing without evidence, probably a priest to please the famiky, the end is the end, and the energy in our body is stored in the molecular bonds in our flesh which are then decomposed for food by the maggots. The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't justify the soul..