What if the universe simply doesn't give a damn about you or me or the whole human race or life on earth or life anywhere?
What if when you die you just die?
What if there is nobody to hear or care about your prayers?
What if the whole universe is just a vast, violent, beautiful wilderness and that's all there is to it?
Does that notion disturb you or does it comfort you?
2007-04-04 19:09:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What if there IS a God?
2007-04-04 19:13:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The notion simply doesn't strike me. To think of it like this:
what is the difference between a Christian and an Atheist if Atheism were right?
The answer to this question is: utterly nothing. if we were to all die and that just be the end of it, our very lives (as you pointed out) wouldn't matter, and that would especially include, that if this hypothetical situation were true, that Atheists would be no better off than Christians because we'd all die, that'd be the end of it, and being right or not wouldn't matter because you wouldn't exist.
The notion that scares me is that Atheists both hold your notion true, while holding the contradictory notion that their lives hold some sort of meaning. With this logical fallacy apparent, I become utterly terrified of all sorts of life threatening disasters of human beings from this notion. Some of them you might know as:
Joseph Stalin
Pol Pot
Mao Zedong
Friedrich Nietzche, who's philosophy was emulated in the life and times of Adolf Hitler
That is what scares me. Atheists who contradict their own beliefs are a threat to humanity, as their contradictory ideology is more threatening than Islamofascism and the corruption of the Roman Catholic church during the middle ages.
Think about it: the 4 greatest murderers on the face of the planet were all practicing atheists. And if you care to add up the numbers of deaths they accumulated and lives they ruined, I'll bet they causes an inexpressably greater damage to the human race than all of the medieval popes, the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the take over of Spain by the muslims, and the reconquest of Spain by El Cid ever did.
that notion disturbs me greatly.
2007-04-04 19:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by urban_myth07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, gotta defend Nietzsche here-- his works were manipulated by his sister after his death to support a Nazi regime. He was NOT an anti-Semite and would never have supported what Hitler did. Read Nietzsche and that will be evident.
As to your question...I don't fear the time before I was born. I didn't exist then and it wasn't unpleasant or scary. I look at death the same way. I just won't exist. Why am I here now? Who cares! I AM here.I have a limited time on this earth and I intend to make the most of it. I want to live a happy life. I want to make other people happy. That's all there is to it.
2007-04-04 19:40:25 · answer #3 · answered by mcgilllilnancy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a God. The notion that there is no God is for non-believers to ponder for themselves. As for being small or insignficant, that's not the case. Everything--alive or even inadament objects--have a purpose in the scheme of things. Concerns of faith are personal for me, but I also hold strong beliefs that overcome any possible ideas or discomfort on my part about how my existence relates to the Universe. I am who I am, and there is little I can do to change that.
2007-04-04 19:17:37 · answer #4 · answered by gone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disturbs me. Because the neo-cons specks would label all the other specks and righteously proclaim how the rock should be governed their way without question or retort, while at the same time picking fights with the star-specks and exploiting the rest of the galaxy for their advantage. All of us other specks would still be in their mess. Other than that I enjoy my speckness.
2007-04-04 19:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by YELLFIRE!!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay. if you were to add up all the loss or life and destructions that Christians have caused (both in the name of god or otherwise) the number would be impossible to messure. When you put 4 atheists next to that number, we are doing pretty well.
And as for not being special without god, it makes no sence. If we succeed because God wanted us to, who cares. God is omnipotant and it was his wish...it means nothing to us. But if we succeed without god...then we did it out of our own ability.
Maybe alone I am a speck, but i belong to a force of nature: humanity. And so long as Christians and muslims don't succeed in creating the end of days, we might succeed in surving beyond the existance of our planet.
2007-04-04 19:48:32 · answer #6 · answered by Julian X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my philosophy teachers said a while back that many people are licking the fingers of their respective Gods but not looking at the moon which their Gods are pointing to. Basically that means don't preoccupy yourself with dogma, rituals, ceremonies, etc instead practice the purpose of the writings, sayings, etc. If you are a just, honest, and kind person you should do fine and should not worry.
"Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. " - Mahatma Gandhi
2007-04-04 19:42:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is no God, then what we believe will not matter. We will simply close our eyes and that will be that. If, there is a God and we choose to live our lives as rebels and it is against His will, then we could loose in the end. We each have to make the choice and live out our lives according to our choices and be ready to accept the inevitable.
2007-04-04 19:27:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the way it is fundies. Sorry that the invisible sky pixie really isn't there. Someday maybe you'll have the cojones to admit it.
The odds on your god being real are so infinitesimal it isn't worth bothering with. I'm not going to waste my time.
2007-04-04 19:18:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if when you die, you just die, then there's nothing to worry about, as far as doing the right thing on earth to get to Heaven. However, there is a price on earth to pay for doing the wrong thing, such as murder, or rape an innocent person. So, regardless if there is an after-life or not, those who commit bad deeds will be punished. They will feel it here on earth.
2007-04-04 19:15:09 · answer #10 · answered by xenypoo 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Noone wins the argument if there is no God. The unbeliever only loses if there is a God, which there is. Last time I checked my computer didn't just evolve from dirt.
The poor atheists are in a lose-lose situation. And, plus, their faith is in total theories that dispute scientific law with their bomb-blast god.
2007-04-04 19:14:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋