departed for the second time that is the after life.
2007-03-15 03:39:55 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To Lokassen. If you are an atheist or free thinker it doesn't mean that you will directly end up in hell, it depends on how do you live your daily life whether you choose good or evil.
2007-03-15 04:03:38 · update #1
is the "r" button broke on your computer?
2007-03-15 03:41:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Okay, I'm not an Atheist but answer me this...
According to Christianity (which I am assuming is your religion?) my ancestors and loved ones who have passed on (were Heathens, Pagans, or Atheists) would all be in Hell because they didn't believe in your god. So, why would I want to be separated from them in the afterlife for all eternity? That is a fate worse than anything your Hell could offer. Your argument is seriously flawed in such case because its self defeating.
Also, I think it is extremely sad that you NEED an afterlife to make this life worth living. If the afterlife is what makes this life worth living, then what makes the afterlife worth living?
Life is wonderful and should be enjoyed, because like it or not.... All good things must come to an end.
2007-03-15 03:56:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a good number of human beings say this. They continuously attempt to discover the reason to existence. actuality is, a number of years in the past --you weren't even latest. You did no longer ask to be right here, your determine(s) made the alternative to enhance you and right here you're on the instant! you will not have had an option to stay and adventure existence or no longer, so the alternative relatively wasn't yours. Your option to stay and adventure existence or provide up and allow your self to end to exist is now your option. looking out the reason in the back of existence is like attempting to discover who/what created the universe. that's a great secret, so till then --you ought to decide the way you choose to spend this existence (whether easily or negatively, significant or meaningless) the alternative is yours. How every person else comes to a decision to view existence is all their comments and that ought to no longer remember to you, using fact in the top this is yours that counts the main. i think existence has a purpose, and once you finally end up taking section in it,..i'm optimistic you will see why. once you finally end up hating it (yet starting to be from those painful moments),..i'm optimistic you will see why.
2016-11-25 21:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course my life is worth it. I have my loved ones for the time that we're here together. I cherish my life more because I believe it's ALL I have. I'm going to be dead soon enough, and once I am, that's IT for all eternity, so I've no desire to speed up the process. The 80-90 years or so that I've got are precious to me. It isn't a pleasant thought that I won't meet my loved ones again someday. But someday I'll be in the same position and it won't matter. It might not be paradise, but there's no suffering or pain, either. I guess that's a sort of peace.
2007-03-15 03:46:35 · answer #4 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
atheists and free thinkers are two different thinking people.while an atheist may be dogmatic but a free thinker need not be dogmatic. the philosophy of either atheists or free thinkers is to live till we die without doing harm to others either physically or mentally
2007-03-15 03:46:36 · answer #5 · answered by nightingale 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you asking if life is worth it without having the chance to meet a loved one in the after life? why do you assume that none of us beleive in any sort of afterlife? (esp free thinkers?!)
personally, i am an atheist pagan (no, it's not an oxymoron! an atheist is merely one who does not believe in a supreme "being") and i beleive in souls & reincarnation, so i beleive that we will meet again.
2007-03-15 03:47:45 · answer #6 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More so than that of the theist.
This is the only life we have, and need to make the most of it while we're here. We don't believe in fairy tale dreams of eternal life, and will therefore value our finite lives more than the theist.
2007-03-15 03:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by Some Dude 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These things always bother me, let's say you are a father, you REALLY want your kid to play Baseball, I mean REALLY bad, but try as you might, he just hates Baseball, he LOVES ballet, so, are you going to love him less and punish him for not glorifying in you in the way you want him to? Do you think if he loves ballet that makes him not love you? Of course not, maybe he just wants to know more than baseball. That is the way I look at God, he isn't going to damn all his little atheists, he loves them, he made them, why damn something he made?
2007-03-22 11:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by Wolfgang92 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fact that I was lucky enough to have any amount of time with my loved ones is good enough for me. We should treasure the people in our lives, because when its over, there is no afterlife. Make the most of the time you have with the people you love, because you aren't ever going to get to see them again.
Sorry, but its true.
2007-03-15 03:45:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
my wife and my oldest daughter are atheists, if by chance i had a psychotic episode and converted to some religion or other and that fairy tale paradise did exist. like so many people i would have to be lobotomised in order to forget that my love ones were being roasted eternally and the behest of a compassionate and eternally loving god. i would no longer be me so i never made it anyway.
2007-03-15 03:58:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure I have grasped the full sense of your question, if any, but it seems you are judging about the value of my life. What makes you think you are a better judge of my life's worth than I am? Are you a god yourself? Or is it just arrogance?
2007-03-15 03:50:23 · answer #11 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋