2007-02-26 21:31:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
respect how do you respect something that is gone forever and ever pooh just like that. Does it means that you beleive in something that you couldn't see with your naked eyes.
2007-02-26 21:38:07 · update #1
To pay your respects to the dead and to show that you still appreciate and love your family.
2007-02-26 21:33:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Visiting the graves are a show of respect, maybe a few memories of how live was with them and has nothing to do with beliefs.
That's the atheist logic, now, why do theists go there? Why is it that religions have deep reverence for the dead, even more than when the body was alive? For, according to them, the soul has already departed and there is only a "blank" body.
2007-02-26 22:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that for some human beings they come across a objective in existence by using god yet for me the fact is extra significant. i think of god contradicts good judgment (yet it is not the ingredient.) The 'meaning' of existence and why human beings exist i think of is a question with an basic answer - there is no intending to existence - it is in basic terms a organic technique which has happened to take place on the planet (this answer sounds slightly chilly and according to danger slightly empty at first yet i come across this answer to be mind-blowing). that's to not say you will not be able to grant your guy or woman existence a meaning and a objective. For me i'm in basic terms approximately as effective as i'd be that it is my in basic terms existence - i prefer to spend it with my kinfolk, friends, those i like. i prefer to do issues that are relaxing, see issues that are suitable, journey all that this existence has to grant. i'd additionally prefer to leave this international a extra effective place than as quickly as I got here across it so as that others after me can proceed to relish it. i think of in case you help others, and attempt to advance the society you reside in you have gotten completed properly and had a functional existence. The delight of my ideals and contentment would be worded it a quote by skill of Carl Sagan - "that's lots extra effective to hold close the universe because it is then to perist in fantasy, whether pleasing and reassuring."
2016-10-16 21:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by ramayo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what belief in God has to do with it at all. But since you ask, I don't actually.
My Mum's ashes were scattered in a rose garden at the crematorium and I have not visited since the service. My Dad's ashes are in a box on top of the cupboard near the front door of my house. Thanks for reminding me. I must dispose of them someday.
Does that seem harsh? But they are just ashes. They are no more the person that was once my Mum or Dad than the breath I exhale is me. Sure it contains particles of me, just as the water I drink has passed through millions of life forms. That after all is what makes me one with everything else.
Do I miss them? Do I remember them? Of course I do. But I feel no attachment to their remains. 'They' are gone.
That doesn't mean that I don't understand others who do visit graves and 'remember' the dead in specific ways. It's just we are all express our feelings in different ways. And belief or otherwise in God does not make someone more or less feeling. If you believe that you are 'gravely' mistaken.
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2007-02-27 00:11:27 · answer #4 · answered by Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twenty three from each of them you got ... surely you are grateful to them for that in the first place ... and then the upbringing for a decade and a half ... well you cannot forget that do you? ... so do we, cannot forget the memories of our parents ... so all we could do is to visit their graves and revive our memories of them ... even an atheist, free-thinker or agnostic has to have parents ... and the natural reciprocal feelings of normal, average human beings.............thank you.
2007-03-06 21:21:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you know that's the last place you put them.
It's like standing on the seashore at dawn, feeling small in the world against the relentlessness of the surf and the vastness of the water - sometimes its nice to reflect on one's thoughts and memories in a place where time is meaningless.
2007-03-06 21:12:24 · answer #6 · answered by pepper 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remembrance - same point as looking at old photos, even though you're no longer 6 years old, or at the Grand Canyon, etc. Grave sites have nothing to do with God or an afterlife.
2007-02-26 21:36:13 · answer #7 · answered by gelfling 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because being Atheist does not mean you are not spiritual. It means that you don't believe in a god and aren't religious.
As for myself, my mom died in 2004. I haven't been to see hers since the funeral. She's gone so there's no point. Though some people find it a comfort.
2007-02-26 21:38:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Respect for your ancestors does not require any ancient Hebrew deities. If you mean a more universal 'Divine' when you say 'God', than that is somewhat different. We are all a part of the Divine, Yahweh or not. Appreciating and respecting your roots doesn't necessarily require that either.
2007-02-26 21:35:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist, and I don't visit anyone's grave. At all. I don't see a point in it, because below the rocks and dirt, is simply a decomposing body in a pine box. That's just my opinion though... To each his own.
2007-02-26 21:36:52 · answer #10 · answered by Psychology 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
what is the point of visiting a grave if you do believe in God ...
dont they live on in the next life ?
however this is a silly question
a grave stone is a memorial of the life they have left ... it gives people comfort and is respectful
2007-02-26 21:35:32 · answer #11 · answered by Peace 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋