This isn't meant to sound condescending in anyway. this is just curiousity. If there is no belief in any religion, where do you believe we go when we die? Also, how do you believe everything was created, especially humans. I'm really only curious..
2007-05-27 08:51:49 · 23 answers · asked by YO Mama 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow anardi. sorry for getting my "I" and "E" mixed up. didn't know that really pertained to the question here.
2007-05-27 10:33:57 · update #1
LOL AnArdi!!! I just looked at your own questions, and you ALSO spelled it "athiest" and someone caught you on it so don't be rude about something you made the same mistake on buttwipe.
2007-05-27 11:29:38 · update #2
I believe its the same as it was before you were born...nothing.
People are afraid of ending, which is why most religions have a concept of "afterlife"...neverending. Whether its heaven or reincarnation, people feel the need to believe they can avoid ending.
However most people also have a deep down fear that there is no afterlife...that they will end. If they didn't, they wouldn't fear dying.
2007-05-27 08:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by DougDoug_ 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I'm agnostic. I don't know what happens when we die (pretty much by definition of the term)! If there's nothing, well, whatever. It's not like you can realize it, or be upset about it, because you don't exist anymore, so it wouldn't matter. If there is something, great! I doubt it would be a harsh, judging, dualistic place. I see no evidence for a "soul," and I do see evidence that the sense of self is an illusion created by the brain that can be dissected to some degree.
Everything created... hmm... I've heard theories that the universe just always was and always will be. If God can be eternal, why can't the universe be eternal, if time has no meaning outside its boundaries? But besides that, I believe the universe and everything in it was "created" by the basic laws of nature - physics, chemistry, things of that nature.
2007-05-27 08:59:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The definition of gnostic by todays standards are not the way I see it. I am not confused weather I believe or not. I choose to define god as impossible to know, in this current moment and I would be a fool to say that I knew God. We do reincarnate. We go into another dimension when we die. There we either choose to come back or rest a while before returning, if we decide to return at all. As for the creation of everything, it would take to long to try to explain that. And even if I did, I couldn't garuntee you would understand it from the context that I describe it. Humans were created from cro-magnon man. An advanced species came here 455,000 years ago in search of gold for their atmosphere. They mixed their DNA with cromagnon man to make us, homosapiens. They needed us to harvest the gold for them. Science is now discovering this to be true. Remember, we are in the infantile stages of the DNA world. We really don't get it yet. There is much more to tell but you will not likely accept what I have told you thus far. Their planet is Niburu, and it will be passing by in 2009. There will be signs and many changes here on earth when this happens.
2007-05-27 09:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by God!Man aka:Jason b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that when we die we dont go anywhere. I dont see why we should go somewhere. I also find it hard to believe where that somewhere would be. I dont know how everything was created. I dont assume that god created it because there is no evidence for god. god just happens to be an idea that would work if it was real but has never been proven and also nothing even suggests god. I find it hard to believe that god just put adam and eve on the earth and that was the start of all humans. We would all be very stupid from being soo inbread.
2007-05-27 08:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by john 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's exactly like before you were born. Maybe there's something before and after life, but any semblance of consciousness can't slip past birth or death.
Everything came through evolution. Evolution took 2 billion years to get here. It took 1.4 billion just to get to multicellular life. There is no need for a God to create life or humans, and besides, the science is overwhelming. Evolution is the most successful scientific theory out there, more successful than relativity or gravity or anything else.
2007-05-27 08:57:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
---Interesting question...
Where do we go when we die?
This question would presume that there actually IS an afterlife and, as such, I imagine most atheists would answer "Nowhere",...and agnostics would likely say "I cannot answer that question with any certainty as I have not been convinced that there is, or is not, an afterlife."
How do you believe everything was created?
Possible responses might include, but would certainly not be limited to, Big Bang, Intelligent Design, and Theory of Evolution.
I appreciate your open-mindedness with regard to this subject.
2007-05-27 09:12:15 · answer #6 · answered by Saint Christopher Walken 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither are important questions since we can KNOW neither. What is important is how you live your life presently. Do you live your life lovingly and with compassion or hate and violence. It is how you live each and every moment of your life that is what is important.
Where we came from or where we are going is not important. They are unknowables. No one can prove these questions one way or the other so they are simply not important questions. The past and future don't exist. Only the present moment exist and it how we live that moment that is important.
2007-05-27 09:06:02 · answer #7 · answered by Jim San Antonio 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believing in God or not, I don't think anyone knows for sure about how humans were created in the beginning if God was capable of making us or not. I believe in evolution, and all that. And also, I have no idea where we go when we die, perhaps no where at all. And it's not so much that we don't believe in religion, atheism in itself is characterized as a religion.
2007-05-27 08:58:46 · answer #8 · answered by Lemonada 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Where 'were' 'you' before you were born? I know many religious and spiritual people who don't believe in an afterlife. What do I think? I see that those who have enlightenment experiences experience themselves as not of this body and not of any form and NOT an individual psychological entity. And, so, birth and death are completely meaningless and the joy of this realization is endless.
2007-05-27 08:57:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you dont go anywhere when you die. you simply cease to be. and as of how everything was created, evolution is the process on how life adapted to fit its environment and how life has grown more and more complex over the ages. if you want the very beginning then the big bang then simple physics takes over. i cant tell you exactly how the big bang started but it explains what we observe when we look to space. we werent around when the universe was created so i dont concern myself a whole lot with how it began. i missed it and i move on. thanks
2007-05-27 08:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋