Are you making any assumptions (faith) which compel you to decide that an untimely self-initiated departure or ending is secondary to the alternative that you to encounter an uncertain "natural" ending? In laywoman's terms: You don't commit suicide, therefore you assume or you know that your life is better than the negative of your life (dead). What exactly is wrong with non-existence?
2007-03-11 15:03:19 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JP: pure self-preservation instinct. <-- is this "instinct" based on fact or belief? Get it, belief.
2007-03-11 15:15:29 · update #1
Great Ga: You have personified "evolution".. Shall we build it an altar?
2007-03-11 15:17:19 · update #2
Nope, nothing more than pure self-preservation instinct.
There's nothing wrong with non-existence. I just like existing, because we evolved with this silly little urge towards self-preservation.
Your point?
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Instincts are not beliefs. They are exactly what they are called -- genetic propensities to specific behavioral patterns.
They are neither 'facts' nor 'beliefs' in and of themselves. It is a 'fact' that we have an instinct for self-preservation. No belief involved.
2007-03-11 15:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Of COURSE we love our life. At the moment, I think it's probably better than non-existence, though after I die, I'm sure I won't really know the difference. I see non-existence as being similar to what it was like before we were born. It's not painful, but it's not paradise, either. I'm going to be in that state soon enough, and once I'm there, I'll be there forever, so I have no desire to speed up the process. I'm going to milk the life I have for all it's worth.
Do you think that your life is worth nothing because you believe you're going to paradise afterwords?
2007-03-12 02:16:06 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. First i do no longer think of sin is a real looking theory. I genuinely have ethics and morals to lead my movements and help me understand what the superb suited difficulty to do is. which means i'm focussed on doing the superb suited difficulty because of the fact that's the superb suited difficulty to do, relatively than fearing sinning. effective motivations motivate human beings further and further effectual. yet whether i assumed "sin" existed and made experience, i do no longer think of i'm residing a sinful existence. whether i assumed i grew to become into residing a existence which you or something else theory grew to become into sinful, because of the fact i do no longer think in sin, the only issues I could be ashamed approximately are when I behave badly or injury human beings. And ultimately, i think of all and sundry who felt a "presence of God" should not be an atheist! What might your answer be if I asked if non secular human beings skipped over the presence of Santa Claus so as that they might stay without thinking approximately whether or no longer they have been naughty or wonderful that 3 hundred and sixty 5 days? I genuinely have many motives for thinking God does not exist. the actuality that i've got under no circumstances felt something that remotely resembles a "presence" is in basic terms between the excuses - because of the fact whether I did sense a presence there are different factors i might settle for formerly I common there grew to become right into a God. i could turn your question around. Do non secular human beings have self assurance in God and sin because of the fact no longer the rest may be adequate to motivate them to act ethically and morally, and then locate some thank you to sense a presence of God so as that they might justify their concept? that is an offensive question - like yours grew to become into.
2016-09-30 13:15:58 · answer #3 · answered by lieser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice try. Except human beings, like all other animals, have an instinctual drive to survive. To pass on the genetic material, y'know. A species that didn't care much one way or the other wouldn't exist for very long. Therefore, we can assume that all species currently existing have a very strong drive to survive (and maybe some of them were just lucky).
2007-03-11 15:11:35 · answer #4 · answered by KATYA 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have way too much time on your hands to ponder these things...
Yeah, suicide is usually done by those that were dealing with emotional issues that were bad enough to reach a breaking point. By instinct however, any healthy being is not going to do that.
"What exactly is wrong with non-existence?" So what are you trying to suggest, huh??
2007-03-11 15:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by Indigo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not real sure what you are getting at...but I will say this...I love life...I enjoy living...even with the problems I am having with my parents right now I am still happy with my life...why would I want to end it early just because I don't believe in an afterlife??? Nature has given me the gift of life and I plan to live it to the fullest extent for as long as I have......hope that answered your totally bizarre question.....
2007-03-11 15:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is wrong with non-existence. I spent eons non-existent before my birth. But, I have life right now and I am doing the best with it. In fact I am having a great time!
2007-03-11 15:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am quite willing to struggle through the bad times in my life to enjoy the good things.
I know my life is better than my non-existance, as I enjoy my existance, and with non-existance there is no sense of anything, including enjoyment.
2007-03-11 15:09:40 · answer #8 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Baiting and trolling isn't cool, you know.
I don't have to prove to you that my life is worth living because I think it is. I love my family. I love my job. I love my friends. And I love to learn new things every day. All of those are worth living for. Whether you believe that or not is your problem, not mine.
I just don't live for your god. If you can't find any reason other than your god to live for, then you must lead a very sad, depressing life.
2007-03-11 15:08:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Uh...your life is worth living because if you were dead you wouldn't be able to live it anymore. It's not that Atheists do not enjoy life, they just do not believe in an after life, or have a religion.
2007-03-11 15:07:13 · answer #10 · answered by josh.barron 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋