Everyone needs to hope in something. Christians hope in an eternal Life with Jesus and other Religions have similiar hopes in there God / s. But what do atheists hope for, is it something that science can prove is real. That would leave few options because most of what science can prove is really just theory. Anything else they might hope for will end with them at their death. A wise saying says that "God's way leads to endless hope, Man's way leads to a hopeless end."
2007-01-10 20:32:37 · 31 answers · asked by Peter C 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No person is hopeless!
God Bless You
2007-01-10 20:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in an afterlife nor worship any god but I think that life is a more joyful and wonderful experience than I could have hoped. After careful consideration I can say that I do have the sincere hope that I will succeed in my attempt to live my life as a good person. Also, I do hope that I am remembered by those whom I have known and loved as a source of joy in their lives. For me these things are enough to hope for - I guess I am just easily contented.
2007-01-10 21:02:16 · answer #2 · answered by Michael Darnell 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree with the idea that everyone "needs" hope.
Suppose (pretending) that someone is currently living with a condition (health) will say and is experiencing much agony and discomfort in each waking moment.
Remember this is just a possibility-
Suppose this person is an atheist.
Now; who is to say that maybe this person ( who is experiencing) what one may call as major suffering, may consider that death ( and the individuals' personal belief of "endless" may very well be considered that persons' personal hope as you call it?
Maybe that "something" to the atheist is endless death and maybe all the "hope" that individual requires.
2007-01-10 20:50:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah our only hope at eternal life is to actually solve the problem of old age and death. Assuming we are too early to enjoy science's eventual victory over nature, all there is to do is to try to leave the world in a better condition than it was in when we inherited it. Simply teaching others what we have learned in our lifetime is one way of "immortalizing" our 'selves'.
It's sobering to think about, but then again I suppose it's better than wasting our dreams on a fantasy.
2007-01-10 20:49:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First you assert this
"Everyone needs to hope in something."
Got any proof for that beyond your own belief that you know about universal truths?
For myself I live in hope that people will cease to believe in mythologies invented in the Bronze Age to explain what was then unknowable.
We know know a lot of the answers to things that demonstrate that these mythologies are wrong.
One day people will reject mythologies such as there being an old man in the sky who carefully designed the tapeworm to bring misery to people in the third world or decides which children will die of cancer and which will grow to adulthood and then become serial killers.
Surely it is better to look forward to a world where people do the right thing while they are alive to make the world better and stop believing that they can do whatever they like to living humans because if the perform certain magical actions then they can live forever in the magical next world.
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2007-01-10 20:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I'd be happy to admit to being without hope - at a general level. I mean, from day to day I hope I won't get stuck in traffic, or I hope the meal I'm cooking will turn out okay, but across the range of my life, I don't pin my emotional state on imponderables. So every day is exciting even it it's a bit tough. And I think they're less tough because of that. Most of the time being alive is excellent. It amazes me that theists can't see that simple fact in front of their eyes.
2007-01-10 20:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Thank God, you are wrong. I was a committed athiest, but nine years ago I had an amazing breakthrough when I was 31. I had a spiritual awakening and suddenly realized the interconnectedness of everything, and that it's all orchestrated by a power greater than us. What a day! It changed my life. Thank you for showing yourself to me, Creator! I feel so lucky. If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone. Have a great day!
2007-01-10 20:43:14 · answer #7 · answered by itry007 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not correct in deducing that Atheists are all hopeless, because atheists do have hopes. They just don't hope for life after death. I hope for many things, but that is not one of them. What you are talking about isn't hope, it's blind faith.
2007-01-10 20:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
1) You're grammatically incorrect - you hope _for_ something, not _in_. This is the English board where we speak English.
2) You're talking about faith, not hope. I hope to have a pretty peaceful day today. I hope that I'll get my work finished before the deadline. You see how it works?
2007-01-10 20:50:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
obviously wrong. Atheists can hope for anything they want. you don't have to have a God to make hope work. Maybe hope in a an after life works that way, but nothing more.
but then again maybe you hope in reincarnation?
2007-01-10 20:38:35 · answer #10 · answered by hermespgc 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
I have faith in the unknown. That I don't know the future, and it might, just maybe, be better than today (on days I'm having a crappy day). I have faith in myself, that I have the strength to carry on.
2007-01-10 20:47:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋