atheist, all we get is 900 months and a bunch of ups and downs?

Question

900 months if your lucky. ups and downs if your born.

im not an atheist, i just wonder how they can believe what they believe, with all the wonder and beauty and change we see, how can you not see death as another fundamental change.

Answer 1

Yes, I'm afraid that's all there is. Death is final. Make hay while the sun shines.

atheist

Answer 2

Life is precious.

You are 14 billion years in the making. The big bang. The formation of galaxies, stars, and planets. A star had to nova just to give you the heavier elements that make up your body, and that takes billions of years.

Ambiogenesis. 4 billion years of evolution, along different species and evolutionary dead ends, past natural catastrophy, climate changes and asteroid impacts, and 40 + different varieties of humans that went extinct in the past few million years.

Add on billions of genetic permutations in our species. You didn't have to exist. A trillion people could stand in your place, wondering the same thing.

But you do exist. And you just happen to know it. You've won the ultimate cosmic lottery. You can create meaning out of your surroundings, born in a society where you can live out your natural lifespan, instead of dying in childhood or from malnutrition.

Cherish every moment, because there may never be anything as extraordinary as intelligent life. The universe is a strange place, there are no assurances as to what will come next.

But you exist, in the here and now.

I can not imagine anything more wonderful than being alive. And considering the alternatives against it, life is a freaking miracle.

Answer 3

Only 75 years? Huh. In my family, more likely 90 + years.

yes, all we get is this lifespan - so why waste it? Ups and downs of life are just the way life is - embrace and live them tot he fullest - what's so hard about that, rather than waiting for something that may or may not happen after death? Why waste away the short life you have in hopes of maybe, possibly, a better one?

Live your life, embrace it to the fullest, enjoy every apect of it. I'm not saying be immoral - each of us lives by a moral code and social morays. I'm saying live, not wait about.

Yes, death is just another state of being - it's why I'm against embalming for myself - bury me in a cheap pine box, raw wood, let me rot away and be food for insects, grow plants and grasses that in turn feed some other animals, etc - the life cycle goes on, and I contributed to it - both alive and dead.

The spirit? Up for debate, and there is nothing proof wise as to what happens to it after death, other than occasional antecdotes.

EDIT - wonder, beauty and change aren't exclusively the realm of the religious - ALL of us can appreciate the change of seasons, the beauty of a newborn and the beauty of an elderly person, the changes in our lifetimes alone to technology, society and culture. Never fool yourself into believing others who don't think like you can't see the same things you do.

Answer 4

I'm not sure I understand the question here, but it sounds like you have a good attitude. As for the love/lust question, well, I think it's a little of both. I think the chemical componant is important because it brings us together. However that is temporary so there has to be something backing it up. So I think lust helps us along a little, but any relationship that is going to last any serious amount of time will be because that high that comes from lust was converted into the stronger bonds that we call love. (And since the lines tend to blur pretty nicely we just lump the whole thing under love because it sounds better.)

Answer 5

With all the wonder and beauty, how can you waste your time on believing in a sky God and using your time up with a non-existent being. You probably do not believe in Zeus or the Tooth-Fairy, why waste your time on one more silly story.

Use your time well.

Answer 6

Life is a short warm moment,
and death is a long cold rest.

You only get one try, in the twinkle of an eye,
for Eighty years with luck, or even less.

- PINK FLOYD


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Answer 7

If that is how you view life I pity you.

Life is a wonderful thing that should be experienced to the fullest.

Groveling on your knees your entire life to placate a nasty god who constantly threatens you will eternal hell if you do not obey, does not sound like much fun to me.

Answer 8

That's life in nutshell.

People who can't accept that need to make up imaginary deities and consequences to make life seem more meaningful than it really is.

Answer 9

That's it. Don't waste any of it sitting in a draughty church discussing myths and what you're going to do after you're dead.

Answer 10

That's life. Make the best of it, because it's all there is.