Life After Death?

Question

If Athesist believe there is no God, then what is the purpose of life, when eventually you will die?

in General what purpose is ther to live, if there is nothing after death?

Answer 1

What is the purpose of life if there is a god?

Answer 2

The purpose is to make our OWN purpose. Religion actually cheapens life because you (according to your beliefs) will go a place called Heaven for eternity. Making our time here pointless.

From digitalfreethought:

Q: If you don't believe in God, then what is the point of living?

A: Why does living need to have a "point" at all? Do the "lilies of the field" need to have a point to live?

If you must have a "point", then decide on your own meaning of life. We believe that it's much better do determine our own purpose, than to have some church do it for you based on their agenda!

Q: Doesn't being an Atheist "cheapen" life?

A: Actually religion cheapens life. Being an Atheist makes life more precious. Since there is no after-life, you must come to terms with the fact that this is the ONLY life you'll get. If an atheist throws himself in front of a bus in order to save a child, that action is much more meaningful than if a Christian did the same thing. The Christian thinks they'll just go to heaven and live there!

Look at the 9/11/2001 massacre in New York and Washington D.C. Those religious (Muslim) people thought that their actions would hasten and ensure their entry into eternal bliss, but what they actually did was throw away the only life they had in an act of "faith".

Does that answer your question?

Answer 3

This is an ancient question that billions of people have asked. Unfortunately, there never will be a definitive answer. Maybe just finding a theory that you can accept is the best that you can do.
Some atheists I have talked to believe the purpose of life is life itself. We are here to live, reproduce, and die. That's it. I think that is a very logical and viable answer, and may quite possibly be true; however, being the curious, arrogant, and bull-headed human being that I am, that answer just wasn't good enough for me. I have an imagination, so I might as well use it to explain my purpose on this earth as something a little more grander.
These are my personal theories and beliefs, and noone else's, but it explains it to me:
I believe that life is a school, a classroom to gather experiences about the effects of negative emotions, acts, and events; you can never know true joy unless you know pain and hardship.
The only way to experience bad things when one comes from an all-good realm is to distance yourself from the all-good; We come to this earth as sinners. We struggle through life. Life was never said to be easy or fair. We are tempted by things of this earth. We only see one viewpoint while we are on this earth- our own. When we die, we review the life we have lived as a whole compendium, seen from another point of view. From there, we can glean much more information on how things relly work.

Answer 4

Don't be silly... we're already busy serving our purpose.

If you need a larger purpose than feeding yourself and staying alive and healthy and happy for as long as you can, think about serving the greater world around you.

How about this for a purpose... Let's all get together and build the perfect world. Lets use all the knowledge we have and all of our best efforts to build Eden everywhere on the planet.

Do you think that everyone would enjoy that? Can we do it if we are divided by useless belief systems? Will the idea of a God, any god at all, be necessary or useful in a perfect world?

And about after-death-life.... Ha ha ha. That's a good one.

Do you recall "being anything" or "feeling alive" before you were born? Isn't after-death likely to be just like that? Tell me... how is preparation for non-existence something which constitutes a purpose in life?

You might think about re-sorting your files... they seem to have a few bugs. Perhaps you can find purpose in that.

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Answer 5

Same as the purpose of every animal that has ever lived on this planet. There is none, except what you make for yourself. If one does not want a purpose, he will not have one. If one wants a purpose, he will have one. Do you really think that if god did "create" us that he would want us to spend our lives in which we have no contact with him, serving him? Serving him what, besides an a ss kissing. Do you really think he would "create" all of this and then leave a shadow of a doubt that he exists?

Answer 6

I am not a religious person.
I am self educated and not a sheep that needs a pastor to tell me what to do and what to believe.
And with these crazy religions nowadays, one has to be careful chosing or will end up wearing a bomb belt or bowing to a cow.
And is not that I believe in god but I believe in something beyond life that I am still searching/researching, but not too worried, as long as I think I am doing the best I can in this life, learning and teaching and loving.
Like Mr Scott used to say on Star Trek: Peace and prosper.

Answer 7

Hello Messenger,
I do hope it did not take you your entire life to figure that out. This is what the whole thing is about. Man questioned his own existence. Then man figures out that there must be something that ordered all of this and everything, even himself.

Man discovers God. God lead him to His Son Jesus Christ. Man is recreated and lives forever in the House of God being an inheritor along with Jesus Christ. The story begins here, no more questions.><>

Answer 8

why does life need a purpose. As Descartes said, I think therefore I am.

But specifically the purpose of life is to make sure your DNA gets to combine with someone else's.

Answer 9

What is the purpose of life, if you will eventually go to 'god'? Don't u think the answer to your question lies in the question itself.

Answer 10

The purpose of life is to give yourself a chance to do whatever you would like to do most, and give yourself a name in the mortal world.