2007-02-05 17:22:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes it would if it were true
2007-02-05 17:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why should my life mean nothing just because I don't believe in heaven? I plan on being a teacher. I'll help hundreds, maybe thousands of students to get a better education. I'll be a wife, and a mother and my children will live on after me. I'll volunteer and help my community and give money to people that need it. That makes my life meaningless? When I die that may be it, but my life will never be meaningless.
2007-02-06 01:27:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would dying make my life mean nothing? Albert Einstein is dead; was his life work negated after he died? How about Thomas Edison or George Washington? For that matter, Jesus died. Did everything he did cease to exist because he wasn't breathing anymore?
To me, the fact that there is no afterlife is just more incentive to lead the best life here that I can. It is my responsibility to live the best life that I can, because there are no second chances. To me, living responsibly because it is the right thing to do is a much better choice than doing it because I am afraid of punishment after I'm dead.
2007-02-06 01:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, it is great. It makes this life important. it is a heck of a lot better than thinking this life is simply a way of proving your worthiness to a magical sky fairy. it places the emphasis on being a good human being and doing what you can for the sake of humanity.....it is much less selfish than living for a "god" so that you can go where you want in the afterlife.
2007-02-06 01:25:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
But my life does mean something. I hope to leave the world a better place for my having been here, and I will live on through my children, and my children's children and so on...
2007-02-06 01:26:40 · answer #5 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, since we all die, why not try living in the present moment, instead of focusing on something you have no control over...
2007-02-06 01:34:05 · answer #6 · answered by dorkmobile 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's it, but it doesn't mean my life was meaningless. Understanding that this life is all we get is life-affirming, as Richard Dawkins would say, in a way religion can never be.
2007-02-06 01:26:00 · answer #7 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Mine won't mean nothing. I have friends and family, I don't expect I'll outlive them all, and I know I'll be missed.
what really sucks is your self-delusion.
2007-02-06 02:54:47 · answer #8 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For me that's not true. My life has been given meaning through Jesus Christ. Even if that weren't true it would still & does still hold value to me...Even if heaven & hell didn't exist I would still take great pleasure in doing what is right & truthful!
2007-02-06 01:27:24 · answer #9 · answered by Boppysgirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
according to my belief, this worldly life is an examination for us from our creator to judge we act on his teachings and commandments or not and we will have the fruit of our doings in the life hereafter where there is no death and which is forever...
2007-02-06 01:45:53 · answer #10 · answered by ammar_shahjee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and yet, somehow, not all of us atheists have hung ourselves.
Amazingly, we must find things in this life that are worth living. We just don't need training wheels or crutches.
2007-02-06 01:36:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋