how can an atheist accept death in life is the end of one's existence and still live a fullfilling and motivated life?
2007-12-04 16:45:34 · 13 answers · asked by df a 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's easy. They accept reality.
2007-12-04 16:48:03 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think death is the ultimate motivation to get stuff done. There is a hard deadline for your life. I think the fact that life is limited makes it all the more valuable. Things that are free and in infinite supply are not valued but wasted. When water is plentiful, you turn on the tap. When water is scarce, you watch every drop.
From a different direction, I value truth very highly. Paraphrasing Carl Sagan, I would rather know an uncomfortable truth than live a comfortable lie. Believing in heaven, no matter how nice it makes me feel, would still be a lie.
2007-12-04 17:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by DogmaBites 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very well, thank you.
I face life knowing that this is all there is, and I appreciate everything that much more. I do not take any day for granted, since it could be my very last, forever. This incentivizes me to live fully, for as long as I can.
If you think about how some people who believe they have "eternal" life, this life here on earth is really meaningless to them....as if they are waiting in some waiting room before they can live in some place like heaven after they die.
Who do you think will value their current life more?
Who do you think will try that much harder to live a fulfilling life?
2007-12-04 16:58:17 · answer #3 · answered by CC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
properly, calling the narratives in _The Holy Bible_ "fairy memories", is overly dismissive. people residing in profoundly ignorant situations, hundreds of years in the past, have been somewhat entitled to objective to be sure the place that they had come from and the place they have been going to finally finally end up. Their creation memories have been wildly inventive, as have been their notions of immortal souls and an afterlife, yet they had to do the main suitable that they could with their constrained know-how. In 2013 - with all of our clinical understandings - that's inexcusable for any considerate individual to proceed to settle for solutions that have been sufficient in historic situations. the two creation myths and all the afterlife nonsense ought to be rejected immediately. "Fairy memories"? properly, in line with possibility purely immensely previous misunderstandings.
2016-10-19 05:38:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairy tales...oh, right, you're that atheist kid who's confused and depressed and wants to find a god to hide behind. Get some professional help, kid.
"I mean think about it life without existence. They cant comprehend it its impossible."
Don't tell me what I can't comprehend, thanks, mate.
2007-12-04 16:53:38 · answer #5 · answered by Keyring 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because an idea isn't pleasant or comforting it doesn't make it false. I can accept that and live a better life because of it, not in spite of it.
2007-12-04 16:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i am atheist and i just accept it. i believe in the circle of life. i was born, i killed for food, i reproduced, and eventually i will die and go back to the earth then cycle can continue.
2007-12-04 16:53:51 · answer #7 · answered by Charles G. 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
:-)
Atheists do not exist. They live on their imagination about today. They are sleeping. They are dreaming. They do what their dream want to and good for them only, justification is only on their ego/dream.
Atheists have much better life on earth for their own in a group.
peace
2007-12-04 16:58:47 · answer #8 · answered by Jilan A 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
With intellectual courage and humility
2007-12-04 17:51:04 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is called living in REALITY. my life is full. I am agnostic. I love life. I love my children. I am happy for all the memories I have of my loved ones who have died.
2007-12-04 16:49:48 · answer #10 · answered by gretch 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋