What do you think happens after we die? I'm curious...
2007-08-22 07:01:14 · 20 answers · asked by LivingDeadKat 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay...I saw someone who is an atheist and said she believes in an afterlife. And she actually answered. So, people, please don't assume I'm just stupid...
2007-08-22 07:09:48 · update #1
Yes, elm, Atheists don't believe in God or Heaven. But, like some have said, Buddhists don't believe in God, but they believe in reincarnation. *Sighs*
2007-08-22 07:11:54 · update #2
And another thing, who knows what I mean by afterlife? Alot of people said Atheists don't believe in the "afterlife like you mean it"...
2007-08-22 09:02:20 · update #3
I'm one of the few who you are speaking to.
I believe we return to the spiritual whole. We consider what we have learned in life. We plan our next one.
Buddhists are also atheists, and they believe in reincarnation.
2007-08-22 07:04:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
I believe in reincarnation but I have no idea of the specifics. I believe consciousness is not a product of the brain and therefore doesn't "die." The brain serves as a facilitator between the consciousness and the physical world. Only the physical body dies. I don't believe a "God" controls this.
2007-08-22 07:10:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I am an Atheist but I think eternity to me is different from what you believe in:
First off I don't believe we go up to the pearly gates to get judged and then live an eternity in heaven or hell. But rather through our children and people we have influenced in our lives either good or bad. If I teach my daughter the right things to do and be a good person with out the influence of god but just to be a better person than I dint think that my memory will fade but it will be instilled in generations of my family after I die. I will also have the genetic lineage passed on to my children and their children as well. The after life was made up by people who feared death and wanted to instill fear into the uneducated masses to control them. It's been happening for thousands of years and will continue like that because people cant accept that everyone dies eventually.
I think physically we die and decompose and that's about it. I don't think anything spiritually happens but I am pretty sure that my teachings to my children to live a good moral life and to excel in anything that they do will go allot farther than some guy on a puffy cloud waiting to see if you accept Jesus/Allah/Buddha/Brahman or what ever god you make up to believe. Sad but true!!!!
Dave
David.f.evans@us.army.mil
2007-08-22 07:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of the molcules that once made up our body will be distributed all over the earth and be incorporated into other living things. In a very abstract way, it sort of is an afterlife.
2007-08-22 07:07:32 · answer #4 · answered by Seth T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid you're not going to find a lot of atheists who believe in an afterlife, dear.
2007-08-22 07:04:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do atheists believe in an afterlife. I thought they believed we decompose thats the end ain't no more.
2007-08-22 07:08:05 · answer #6 · answered by happy_kko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddhists lack belief in God, and yet often accept the idea of a continued existence - with the options (simply put) being nirvana or rebirth.
2007-08-22 07:05:44 · answer #7 · answered by evolver 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't find reason for an afterlife. Why would there be without a God? How can my consciousness, the product of my brain exist without me?
It doesn't make sense to me. Sorry I cannot answer your question in a more meaningful way.
2007-08-22 07:07:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think many atheists if any do believe in an afterlife as you mean it.
2007-08-22 07:04:13 · answer #9 · answered by The Dog Abides 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I am a Muslim.This is what we muslim believe after we die....
Like Christianity, Islam teaches the continued existence of the soul and a transformed physical existence after death. Muslims believe there will be a day of judgment when all humans will be divided between the eternal destinations of Paradise and Hell.
Until the Day of Judgment, deceased souls remain in their graves awaiting the resurrection. However, they begin to feel immediately a taste of their destiny to come. Those bound for hell will suffer in their graves, while those bound for heaven will be in peace until that time.
One's eternal destination depends on balance of good to bad deeds in life. On the Last Day, resurrected humans and jinn will be judged by Allah according to their deeds. They are either granted admission to Paradise, where they will enjoy spiritual and physical pleasures forever, or condemned to Hell to suffer spiritual and physical torment for eternity. The day of judgment is described as passing over Hell on a narrow bridge in order to enter Paradise. Those who fall, weighted by their bad deeds, will remain in Hell forever.
The Qur'an specifies two exceptions to this general rule:
1. Warriors who die fighting in the cause of God are ushered immediately to God's presence (2:159 and 3:169); and
2. "Enemies of Islam" are sentenced immediately to Hell upon death.
"Life after death is actually the starting-point of further progress for man. Those in paradise are advancing to higher and higher stages in knowledge and perfection of faith. Hell is meant to purify those in it of the effects of their bad deeds, and so make them fit for further advancement. Its punishment is, therefore, not everlasting.
Theres alot more i Mean (A lOT) but that is most of it.
2007-08-22 07:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋