Dear atheist: "How sure are you of death...?"?

Question

How sure are you that after death is eternal nothing?

Thank you it gives me an insight into how you perceive yourselves to be and it's what you were before you were born and what you will be thereafter, and I guess you treat others the same way you perceive yourself.

Answer 1

I'm sure i didn't exist before my birth, therefore i won't after i die.

Answer 2

One should always have an open mind, even concerning ridulous, totally impossible things. Therefore, I cannot say 100%, but this is something is extremely certain of- not because I choose to out of faith- but for a reason. I know that the body, the brain, the mind, Is something like a machine. This is clear because then parts break, you see correlating loss to identity- for example, we know that the brain is the seat of consiousness, because brain damage will immediately adversely effect consciousness. In fact neurologists know an impressive amount, and can practically identify every location of the brain and what conceivable part of our identirty, our self, it controls. When you break a machine, it stops functioning. As sure as I am that you cant play a piano thats been gutted of all its strings, there is no experience after the moment of death. It is the same before you were born. In fact it all fits together spiritually for me. Every song must have silence before and after.

Answer 3

Death is another word for transformation. When our body dies, it decomposes and returns to its natural atomic components which then become part of something else. Even our physical body is in a sense eternal. If we can tend the thought that the physical is metaphor for the spiritual, we can infer that that which makes us who we are, sees through our eyes, hears with our ears, etc., experiences something which the physical world reflects and suggests. Another way of looking at it is the body is like a lamp. If the lamp breaks, the light/fire has not been destroyed, merely prevented from manifesting.

Answer 4

I'm almost as sure of that as I am that space aliens have not visited the earth.

I leave some room for what I can't know.

A more interesting point here is that, even if there is something beyond death, we have no idea if there is anything like a God, let alone knowing which (if any) of our thousands of religions are even in the ball park.

Answer 5

I am not sure. Our consciousness (identity) is simply the algorithm (process) that the brains perform. What leaves me in doubt is that if reality is infinite and varied, it is conceivable that multiple brains could share the same process. This idea is called "Quantum Immortality"

If there is some form of continual consciousness it certainly is nothing like the ancient primitive superstitious theistic myths which man has held.

Answer 6

Just as sure as I am that I need to eat to live.

If it's not, there's a LOT of other possibilities, each as likely as the other, so if this is aimed at making us consider some particular religious notion about what happens after death, you've got one HELL of a long way to go. For example, compared with the standard Christian notion, it's just as likely that only nonbelievers get to spend eternity in paradise.

Think about it.

Answer 7

I'm not an atheist, but I am sure that after I die I am not coming back. Other than that the only way to find out for sure is to die. I think we should all stop worrying so much about the next life and deal with this one because we aren't in the next one (if there is one) yet.

Answer 8

The notion of eternal life is a comforting illusion, I think, but there is not much evidence that anything remains after the electro-chemical activity of the brain ceases.

Does one need an after-life?

Answer 9

100% Oh, I may become tree fertilizer or soil enrichment for a while but I know there are no bigger plans for me and I am fine with that. I just have to die first and that's a long, long, long,long ways off. (people in my family tend to live long either that, or I just may learn a new thing or two to extend my life beyond what is expected) Eating good and living right never hurts to extend a life.

Answer 10

It isn't. Nothing is eternal. I am sure because I have found myself incapable of believing anything else. You may not accept this, but I am not capable of believing in anything supernatural, it goes against my natural state. Just as I cannot force myself to believe that toasters have feelings, I cannot believe in a god. Both are equally incredulous claims.

Answer 11

Lol optimistic as evolution! this is honestly a stable one! I constantly say 'what the hell' and 'how the hell' yet i do no longer think of 'what the evolution' or how the evolution' particularly works for those ones!