Question for you Atheist

N/A · April 09, 2016, 01:12:39 PM

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Winy · April 09, 2016, 01:42:24 PM

I'll just be nothing and that's okay.

While I'm here I'm gonna do some cool shit.

XSEAN · April 09, 2016, 01:49:15 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on April 09, 2016, 11:50:05 AM

The same thing that happens before you're born--nothing.

My sister is convinced that reincarnation is a thing, but my parents aren't sure what they believe. My dad believes that, since energy cannot be created or destroyed--just converted into other forms of energy, he believes that something must happen to our consciousness when we die, but he doesn't know what.

As far as I'm concerned, it's the very end. You don't see anything--not even black. You don't even see. You're dead. Gone.

It's a comforting thought.

How can you just accept that's there nothing. Would you rather be living a beautiful lie or a terrible true?

Quote from: Dan on April 09, 2016, 12:25:30 PM

Anyone who says they know what happens after death is lying to themselves.

We don't that's the thing. Only until death strikes is the day you know what on the other side of the door.

Quote from: Sandtrap on April 09, 2016, 12:49:16 PM

I never liked the notion of a central "god" overwatching everything. I prefer the notion that the universe is such a complex design both on the scale of the massive and the small, that when looked at from smallest to largest through it's mirrored systems, that the entire thing in itself is a collective consciousness.

It doesn't pick or choose. No more than we can talk to our cells on a one to one conversation. It just is. Like me or you. Except that we're part of the immense clockwork that makes it. We're infinitely tiny in the grand scheme of it all. But so are the cells that make individual people.

And, arguably, those infinitely small cells are the most important part of what allows people to even exist and function on a larger scale. However, that's my happy ending. My happy idea, if you will. When I die, I merely just join the larger collective on another scale.

But the simple truth I should understand is something I should remember.

I don't know what's on the other side. And I think it's both stupid and incredibly, humanly arrogant to think that our minds even have a chance of having existence or non-existence figured out when our perspective is so limited to the both complex, yet simple systems of our bodies.

Our expectations and the facts of reality are two different things. I have my happy theory, but what it truly comes down to for me is this. If there's another side, or if there's not, I'll find out for myself when or if I get there.

You may believe and argue what you want. Only the day that you die you will learn the answer.

MyNameIsCharlie · April 09, 2016, 02:28:02 PM

I'm more in line with Verb's dad. There's too much mythology in humanity around death that it seems unlikely that nothing happens when you die. I used to think that it'd be flipping a switch. But the more I thought about it, the more that seemed unlikely. But, before you theists start doing whatever Mexican hat dance your church prescribes, I don't think a single religion has the corner on the truth.

I don't think there's a plan. I don't think there's a single being controlling anything. I do think that there's some form of survival after death. What form that takes and how much will be left of me in that? Only the dead know.