This question isn't to bash Athiests. I'm just wondering if this is what you really want to happen. Is it your ideal way to die, or would you want something else if you had that option?
2007-10-07 08:20:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
gtahvfaith, i am not bashing anyone, and im not being sarcastic...
2007-10-07 08:29:53 · update #1
I believe in God but I dont believe much in the bible. I believe there is a higher power watching over us. The God that I know I believe loves every culture and every religion. After all religion was created to keep the masses in line. When I die I will go back to energy and will be free to go where I please and not have the hinderance of my body and my wants to keep me stuck in one place. So I believe as long as I do not hurt anyone I am going back to spirit.
2007-10-07 08:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nope. I'd rather live a lot longer.
I can probably think of an infinite number of other things that could happen after death that would be better than ceasing to exist, and of course another infinite number of things that would be worse.
One hundred years from today, everyone posting here will be dead and gone, no longer existent, no matter how much they protest and insist otherwise. In the long run, the atheist will have proven to have been correct, and there's not a single thing that anyone can do about it other than enjoy that hundred years.
2007-10-07 15:23:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
No. I would rather have just about anything happen besides that. I hold out some small hope that everything that makes sense to me is wrong, and that existence continues once the body dies.
But hope is different from belief or a delusional pretense that I'm sure life continues just because I want it to. As far as I can tell, everything about me and everyone I love is inseparably connected to the matter that makes up our brains. It only makes sense that when that matter ceases to exist, so do we.
2007-10-07 15:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by Michael 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christian - You will too become nothing after death and just live on in the memories of your loved ones. Since NO christian has experienced death for more than a matter of minutes, NO christian can say what is in the 'afterlife'. The sooner you understand that not everyone shares your blind faith then I guess the happier we will all be :)
2007-10-07 15:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by cornishpiskie1 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think about that stuff. We are all going to become nothing after death, but some of us choose to delude ourselves into believing something else. And even if I didn't want that to happen, what can I do to prevent my body from becoming dust, and thus nothingness? Nothing, so why waste my time thinking about it?
2007-10-08 00:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by Bunny Boiler 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't have an option and that is the way it will be and so I accept it without any problem whatever. It takes a different mindset to be an atheist than it does to be anything else.
2007-10-07 15:26:19 · answer #6 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a true Atheist, I don't trade one superstition for another - there is no God and there is no afterlife.
Does it bother me? No.
When it comes time to leave this world, I take comfort in the memories I leave behind.
It's not a question about what I want or don't want, it's about accepting the reality of my own mortality. The best that any of us can do, is make the best of this life.
2007-10-07 15:28:52 · answer #7 · answered by Stedway 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Heaven and Hell are mythology. What happens after death to an atheist or a theist is the same... ones belief prior to death is irrelevant to the outcome.
2007-10-07 15:36:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
ummm i would want something better after death. but that's a dream. time to step into reality. the afterlife hasn't been proven nor have the many religions that promise one. so i do believe that nothing will happen after death.
2007-10-07 15:26:24 · answer #9 · answered by Razgriz01 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Are theists happy with the idea that before they were born they were nothing at all? Or with the biblical notion that children under a month old are of no value whatsoever?
"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life." -- Exodus 21:22-23
"And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver." -- Leviticus 27:6
"Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD." -- Numbers 3:15-16
2007-10-07 15:32:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋