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Afterlife

Arrow

Arrow

Member
Okay so i have to say that this is mainly for the atheists who i asume do not believe in a heaven or a hell. This is not one of those questions where i am trying to convert any of you i am just a curious goober. I just wanted to know what you think of the fact that when you die you simply stop existing entirely?

Once again i thank you all for your comments.
 
sparc872

sparc872

Active Member
This has been discussed pretty thoroughly in the past, but I doubt anyone hear will mind discussing it again.

A common saying here is that dying is much like going back to before you were born. You won't know what happened, it is just part of the natural course of things. Everyone dies, it's no big deal, men have been doing it for thousands of years.

For me, dying will be just like going to Heaven, it will be eternal peace with the exception of no harps, white fluffy clouds or conscience whatsoever. Death is a non issue for me. We spend too much time expecting something after this life that we fail to realize that Heaven is here and now, you just have to open your eyes to it.
 
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Carlos Andres Restrepo

Member
I'm really not an atheist. However i do not believe that when we die there is going to be spirits waiting for me in some peacefull place. However i really can not know what is going to be of me, i can guess i have a soul, but i have no prove of it. i like to live thinking that all i have is this life. then i can do the best of it, i can try to make this life better for myself and everyone else. If i constantly think that there is going to be something better as soon as i die, then i might become dull, i might become lazy and would just wait for my death. So i better do not think about it.
to all who are reading this, better do not worry about afterlife, worry first, about this life, try to make it the best life, for you and everyone around you. I refuse to give much importance to the other life, until everyone is happy on this one.
 
Feathers in Hair

Feathers in Hair

World's Tallest Hobbit
Just for the record, there are many theists that are comfortable (and some that even celebrate) that there might not be an afterlife.
 
BucephalusBB

BucephalusBB

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FeathersinHair said:
Just for the record, there are many theists that are comfortable (and some that even celebrate) that there might not be an afterlife.
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In fact, I think most atheists are comfortable with death being really death.
And why wouldn't we? When you are really gone, you can't feel pain or be sad. It's a sort of a heaven but with an end.

As I don't believe in free will, I just think that when our hardware dies, the OS stops working as well.. :p
 
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eudaimonia

Fellowship of Reason
Arrow said:
I just wanted to know what you think of the fact that when you die you simply stop existing entirely?
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Life is where the action is. I think that one's thoughts should be focused primarily on life, though even death may have meaning if it provides motivation to get on with life and make the most of it, and to realize how precious life is.

As I see it, life is an end-in-itself, or rather all activities which are ends-in-themselves are found in life and are expressive of life. Such values I call cherish-worthy or sacred. They are self-actualizing in the broadest sense of the term, and they are fulfilling in the literal sense of the word, as well as (often times) in the usual sense.

I am of the view that a finite life does not imply meaninglessness, and I perceive my life as meaningful, largely for the reasons mentioned above.


eudaimonia,

Mark
 
Feathers in Hair

Feathers in Hair

World's Tallest Hobbit
Bouncing Ball said:
In fact, I think most atheists are comfortable with death being really death.
And why wouldn't we? When you are really gone, you can't feel pain or be sad. It's a sort of a heaven but with an end.

As I don't believe in free will, I just think that when our hardware dies, the OS stops working as well.. :p
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My apologies. *blushes* I was only making a comment about the theists because the OP was directed toward everyone who didn't believe in an after life (or that death is death), but it also noted that it was primarily directed at atheists. I was just trying to clarify that not all theists believe in an afterlife.
 
BucephalusBB

BucephalusBB

ABACABB
FeathersinHair said:
My apologies. *blushes* I was only making a comment about the theists because the OP was directed toward everyone who didn't believe in an after life (or that death is death), but it also noted that it was primarily directed at atheists. I was just trying to clarify that not all theists believe in an afterlife.
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And then my apologies because I read 'atheists' in your post instead of 'theists'. :cover:
 
Feathers in Hair

Feathers in Hair

World's Tallest Hobbit
Bouncing Ball said:
And then my apologies because I read 'atheists' in your post instead of 'theists'. :cover:
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Easy enough to do, since that's what one would expect to be there! (I just have to butt into threads that don't necessarily involve me because I'm a troublemaker.)
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
If it should turn out that there is an afterlife, that will be a pleasant suprise -- provided it doesn't consist in being tortured forever by some sadistic deity. ;)

However, in the absence of any objective evidence for an afterlife, I think the best thing to do is to make the most of whatever time we may have in this life, and not to worry about an afterlife.
 
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llbrolly

New Member
well im not an atheist or theist but i can speak from a personal experience.
the bible says that for ever and ever that very often, the top elders will throw down their crowns b4 god and scream holy holy....etc
do u seriously want to spend forever doing that?
or do u seriously want to spend it burning?
me neither. since neither seems to be a good choice i would prefer to think that we exist and then we dont
 
mr.guy

mr.guy

crapsack
Now if you will excuse me, I have to wipe the floor up under my chair.
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That's the problem with those antique "toilet-chairs"; they initially seem to be the internet junkies heaven-sent solution to bladder-pressing dilemmas. But if one occasionally forget to replace the pot, most of the benefit is quickly negated.
 
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Bick

Member
Hi everyone. I'm new to this thread but would like to give my views based on what I believe is the inspired Word of God, The Scriptures, the Bible.

As someone said, there is no way to prove or disprove there is an after-life (and by that, I assume that after death, one is alive in some other form).

But, in the Bible, there are a number of accounts of people being resurrected, some after being dead only a short time. while the key one to look at is the raising of Lazarus by Jesus (John 11:1-44). Here Lazarus had been dead four days, yet when he was raised and came forth from the tomb, he didn't complain that he was brought back from being in a place of joy and happiness, he said nothing because it was as if he awoke from sleep. And "sleep" is the figure for death used by Jesus and other places in the Bible.
More later, Bick
 
logician

logician

Well-Known Member
"I assume that after death, one is alive in some other form"

With no evidence of such, quite a bold assumption.
 
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