Athiest? What do you think will happen...?

Question

what do you think will happen to you when you die since you dontbelieve in heaven? Im really curious beacause i have an athiest friend and he doen't care what will happen he just knows he's here but i was wondering what you think will happen or if you even care?

Answer 1

Well, I don't believe in any organized religion, but that doesn't mean I don't believe in something greater than me .. something Devin (if you will). Allowing organizations to interrupt your reasoning with expected blind faith as dictated to you in their sermons is an insult to any human being's intelligence. Who knows what the afterlife holds, but sweetheart .. neither does the church!!!

Answer 2

We can only see in three dimentions, and hear at a certain sound frequencies. A dog can hear at a higher frequency and certain animals can perceive a different light spectrum than we can, just because we can not see, doesn't mean it doesn't existed. That is why sometimes you see a dog barking at nothing at all. According to physics, energy can neither be destroyed or created, so when you die, your life energy will go into a fourth dimention. Some people have a gift to see that fourth dimention, they have the sixth sense, while we only have five. That explain while some can see ghost and some can not, I am glad I don't have the sixth sense.

Answer 3

I don't think you would have any sort of awareness of anything at all.
A few months ago, I had surgery. Have you ever been "put under" (anesthesia) for surgery? They injected me, and then next thing I knew, I was waking up in the recovery room. It didn't feel like any time had passed, it was literally like I'd almost been magically transported from the operating room to the recovery room in an instant.
I think that death is going to be like what it was in between the operating room and the recovery room, only without the waking up later part. lol.

Answer 4

Simply put, darkness. Dreamless sleep. I'd like to say I'll be reincarnated by I have a hard time believing in that too.

In the real world, I'll have my body cremated and my ashes sprinkled into the morning breakfast cereal of a major Television Evangelist. If there's a chance I can posses him, then I'll make him whip out his wiener on national TV.

I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!

Answer 5

We cease to exist. End of story. Death, by definition, is the cessation of life.

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which we are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world.

Some people argue that there is something called a soul, which is independent of, and can survive the death of, the physical body. What could this 'soul' be?

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

Answer 6

I am not sure what will happen, but I think you just die. That's why it is important to enjoy your time here...spend time with your family, see the world, meet people, help people, learn...live for life. I think a problem with religion is that people focus too much on the afterlife, and forget to live the current life. Don't worry about what happens next...think about now and enjoy yourself and spend time with those you love!!

Answer 7

All I know is that my conscience won't be here anymore. All that will be left is the memories of me in the people I know, the stories, if any, that they pass down about me, and whatever other legacy I leave in terms of what I've done with my life. Actually, that's not too bad, really.

Answer 8

I think each Atheist thinks something different.

We don't have a general consensus on this.

Since we are basically just made up of energy I believe after we die our energy is released back out into the Universe.

I don't believe our energy ever dies.

Answer 9

humanists belive that we should really try to do the best we can in this life that we know about for sure. like helping others etc. help others because it is right, not because you will get some reward later.

Answer 10

We die. That's it. The end.

Some funny lights as our brain is deprived of oxygen, some hellucinations and..

Poof.

Buh bye.