When I was an atheist, it was fine by me, to become nothing, ebcause I was suicidal anyways and to become nothing meant no more pain, but not all Atheist are suicidal, so how do other Atheist deal with the fact that they do not exist after they die?
2007-11-14 02:07:05 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think the concept of heaven is nice for people who can't come to terms with death being the end and can't except the reality of 'this is it, this is all there is'. They want to think that there is more than just this mortal coil we call life. If it helps you get through then stick to it.
The way I deal with death is that it is a part of living. We don't become nothing when we die we become a part of the earth and are at peace.
2007-11-14 02:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by sydney77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be somewhat similar to when I came out of my mother's womb - no memory recall of the event at all, with the only difference being that I will cease to be a sentient being.
Atheists do deal with the fact that our bodies die. Believers can't seem to handle the reality of the "nothingness" of death and desperately cling to the hope that there is eternal life of the "soul'' after the death of the body.
"The sun rises, the sun sets, you live, you die."
(Bedouin character from Ken Follett's "The Key to Rebecca")
That's about it. Is there such a thing as an atheist-apostate? That's what you are, 7 of 9.
2007-11-14 02:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make the best of every moment.
Also, give it some thought: why should I be scared of not existing? I won't be bored, I won't be in pain, I won't be happy, I won't be sad, I won't be anything. I flat out won't be.
I'm not suicidal at all, or depressed.
I think a large chunk of people who talk about how depressed atheists must be were raised religious, never really dropped it, thought that God abandoned them, and then came back.
This is quite different from my kind of atheism, which is not believing in a god at all. It follows from there that it couldn't be abandoned.
2007-11-14 02:12:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is the way things are, so I accept it. It is much better than to imagine that one is forced to live forever in one of two highly undesirable places. When I was a boy, I read "Tom Sawyer", and he told his Aunt Polly that he did not want to sit on a cloud playing a harp forever. I soon told dad much the same thing. Isaac asimov said the Christian Heaven was not a place he would want to go. After life tales were invented by ignorant morons, so they are not satisfying to intelligent, objective men.
2007-11-14 02:14:51 · answer #4 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't spend a lot of time worrying about death. I'm more interested in making the most of my life. Life is a wonderful, beautiful thing, and to spend a lot of time worrying about my own death is to miss out of the magnificence of life.
That said, I don't want to leave a mess for the people who keep living after I'm gone. So, I try to be responsible financially, environmentally, and politically.
2007-11-14 02:15:05 · answer #5 · answered by Ben T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
truly hassle-free . i'm a solid believer interior the forces of nature . All residing problems with nature have the comparable trip spot . It makes no distinction no rely if animal or vegetable. all of us come by using delivery or sprouting for seed . We advance up , reproduce , advance previous, and die - - - making room for our off-spring . it somewhat is the plan of nature . we are area of that nature . think of approximately it . it truly is hassle-free , it truly is comprehensible , it truly is attainable , it truly is organic . it truly is desireable , no hokus-pokus , no impossible fairy memories , no 3-in-one gods, no "souls . dying skill dying . there is no longer something to worry . we can be interior the distant destiny what we've been interior the distant previous .
2016-10-02 08:23:53 · answer #6 · answered by pollett 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll let you know after it happens.
(PS I don't claim to know anything about what happens when I die, it has nothing to do with my not following a religion or believing in deities)
The only person who ever made me suicidal was a born-again Christian (ex-husband), but I didn't turn to religion or atheism because of it. I turned to personal strength.
2007-11-14 02:09:37 · answer #7 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Id rather live my life to the fullest knowing its the only one that I have, rather than living a deluded life trying to live again.
I have no need for the desperation of Christians, who have looked for a way out of death for centuries.
So when I die, I shall be eaten by bugs, and my body will help the ecosystem, and such. That is enough for me.
2007-11-14 03:01:39 · answer #8 · answered by hailey. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By being happy with the life I have now, living for today and not the promise of a big fancy house on a cloud, and realizing that I don't have to think I'm going to live forever to feel good about myself.
Self esteem rawks.
2007-11-14 02:09:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I deal with it b/c my life is a reward. I don't need a heaven. This is quite wonderful. I actually feel the same way about you after-lifers... why do you need something to cling to? Why not embrace the here and now?
And, actually, this is exactly WHY I believe in charity and helping others... because this is IT, and they deserve to be as happy as I am.
2007-11-14 02:10:32 · answer #10 · answered by ms_coktoasten 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋