Question for the Atheists

[linkage]

What do I think will happen when I die? I don't think I will become a spirit or go to heaven. I believe I will just become non existent and will just be remembered through memorys. I belive when your brain stops you will have nothing to think of. We can't die and take our brain with us to start a new life. Thats it and I'm not scared of death. I believe life is for living, take it one step at a time no regrets. Tho when I do die I would hope the world would continue to be fair to my family/friends.

 

[Psychonaut Soul]

As humans we honestly do not have room to speculate on what happens after death, I believe the key to knowing that is first figuring out life. There are just far to many possibilites on what could happen after death, for all we know an undectable beam of our brain's energy beems somewhere..or as we all know the human brain is extraordinary and it may have developed a supernatural understanding of the universe found a way for ultimate self preservation and continue to exist without our physical bodies..there is energy all around us, who is to say that our mind/spirit doesent embed itsself within that?

 

[Smallest86]

When you die (the point at which you pass away, you are no longer alive and breathing on this planet any more) What do you believe happens? What do you believe is the purpose of your life? Are you not concerned of anything that might occur once you die? Don't you feel some spiritual being has to be accountable for all of your good and bad deeds?


Please no childish spamming. These are honest questions that I want to see from an Atheist's perspective, to better my own understanding of an Atheist's mindset.

Purpose of life? Our very existence is just a coincidence. Life was bound to apoear at some places, and it occured here among other places.
There is nothing after I die. It might be hard to imagine that but the universe existed for billions of years before me.

 

[That Kid]

When your brain stops functions, the illusion of consciousness ends and then there's nothing. I personally find it hard to find a meaning or reason to live life just because no matter what you do, your going to have to live through pain and suffering and eventually die. Everything you do is just to extend your ultimately pretty meager life.

Spelled it out pretty well.

I consider myself an Atheist and the rest of my family is Christian, which actually works fine because they let myself and younger sister decide whether or not we wanted to attend church (once I hit my teenage years, before that I had to go).

I believe that their is some other form of life out there, it would be narrow minded to think that in a universe so vast that we are the only planet that can support life-forms, whether that be intelligent or not. BUT the idea that somebody or something is holding me accountable for what I have done in my life I find ridiculous.

After a discussion with one of my pretty good friends who is a Christian I asked if I do NOT believe in good but spend my whole life giving to others and doing my best to help everybody I would NOT go to 'heaven'. Whereas a child rapist who repents for their sins WOULD go to heaven.

And you have faith in a 'god' that would judge us that way? I strongly disagree with most Religions as in general, most wars have been started because of Religion and I see no possible 'good' from it except that some people need something to believe in.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against anybody who is religious, many close family & friends are, I just disagree with the churches act as a 'whole'.

There's my two cents.

 

[SuF]

Energy is not currently being created. The universe could not have created itself using natural processes because nature did not exist before the universe came into existence. Something beyond nature must have created all the energy and matter that is observed today. Present measures of energy are immeasurably enormous, indicating a power source so great that "infinite" is the best word we have to describe it.

The logical conclusion is that our supernatural Creator with infinite power created the universe. There is no energy source capable to originate what we observe today.

^ from the institute for creation research. Just wanted to add my bit

You can not say that it is illogical for this universe to have always existed, thus defeating the need for a creator while at the same time saying it is perfectly logical that a god could have existed forever without the need for a creator.

 

[Sillymonkey]

I just see no reason to believe in a God or an afterlife, other than the part of the human brain that makes us want to believe in it.

I could ramble on or try to get involved in a debate, or I could just say that there is nothing to support the existance of an afterlife or a Higher Power.

 

[mexistaniX]

As a very border line religious person with self-imposed views on both religion and real logic, I have this theory of the soul.
It may sound crazy, but I think that there is some non-metaphysical existence of the soul. The soul is some form of energy I think, that either is...


Sigh.

We die I guess, but I think the whole spirit thing is a possibility with my DMT experiences.

 

[Nothing Is Free]

What do you believe started everything? Someone or something greater than a human had to create everything that exists. Even with the big bang theory, something had to create that. There is never just nothingness, even in space.

Most atheists Ive talked to or have heard elaborate their thoughts have ideas that were only manifested because of a popular belief and a lack to comprehend anything else. Most everything we know is because someone told us, so who's to say that person is right? For example evolution, or even the big bang theory. (Which is once again a THEORY. For all we know a potato couldve created everything.)

I just think its somewhat asinine to assume NOTHING exists after we die, given that SOMETHING created us. Someone please elaborate so i can grasp the full concept of your thoughts on this. No answer is wrong because everyone is different, I just want a general idea or someone to explain their thought process on this idea.

 

[thatguy1234]

What do you believe started everything? Someone or something greater than a human had to create everything that exists. Even with the big bang theory, something had to create that. There is never just nothingness, even in space.

Most atheists Ive talked to or have heard elaborate their thoughts have ideas that were only manifested because of a popular belief and a lack to comprehend anything else. Most everything we know is because someone told us, so who's to say that person is right? For example evolution, or even the big bang theory. (Which is once again a THEORY. For all we know a potato couldve created everything.)

I just think its somewhat asinine to assume NOTHING exists after we die, given that SOMETHING created us. Someone please elaborate so i can grasp the full concept of your thoughts on this. No answer is wrong because everyone is different, I just want a general idea or someone to explain their thought process on this idea.

Did you really just copy and paste my post from page 2? You thought no one would notice?

 

[Boston Bruins]

lol ^^

Honestly, as an Atheist, and as a human being, I find the concept of death a tough one to grasp. Our lives are an ever accumulating series of memories, as the present hardly actually exists. What you make of those memories and what you want to achieve during your time on Earth might matter to those there after you die, but as far as I am concerned, the world (your world, your conscience, everything you know) will come to an end. Each and everyone of us has been brought up to believe that life has a purpose, or a meaning, or some sort of end goal. But consequently, our life "purpose" often remains unfulfilled or somewhat unattained. If you do appear to succeed in your life goals, congratulations, you can die happy. But death is an unavoidable end to a series successes or failures. After you die, what does it matter what you did while on Earth?

Opinion, take it for what it's worth. Everything we know, everything we think shapes who we are, what world we live in, it is all going to come to an abrupt end.

 

[vGreed]

I personaly Cannot belive that there is just "Nothing" when you die i think that you will be reborn not nessiscarly as a human but maybe as an insect or animal maybe even a tree. That is just my oppinion.

 

[eric frank]

I understand what the OP is trying to say, for many Atheists like myself, find it hard to imagine what happens after death, quite simply because no one that has experienced it can tell us what it's like.
I have always thought to myself, if Jesus Christ was so almighty, he would understand that there is not sufficient scientific proof for one to believe in his existence, and therefore award non-believers for not blindly following what a book says.

I don't mean any offense to any religious people, those were simply my views and i respect people with a religious background so long as if they don't shove it in my face.

 

[RS Prodigy]

your question is the problem in the first place. YES, atheists might think about what happens when you die...but in a realistic light. As you said "dont you feel as if a spiritual being is accountable for everything, etc"... that is the problem. People want to think there is a purpose, and thus create one for themselves...being "GOD". God is simply a fictional ideal created by humans to satisfy their need for a purpose and to give them an answer to something they TRULY DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND...being death.

EDIT: i tend to preach agnosticism, not atheism as there is truly no possible way (at this point in time) for anyone to know...however I do believe almost every religion created here on earth has nearly no real possibility of being the reality of death as it is just that...a creation of earth- and more specifically, humans- thus making it irrelevant to the rest of the universe and death in general.

 

[stoopidfish]

I was brought up as an atheist by a family of atheists. First, I would like to say that it would be as hard for me to believe in a higher being as it would for someone to stop believing in a God they have always believed in. The reality is, no one knows what will happen when we die. I could go to hell for not believing in God, and Christians could go to... wherever bad Muslims go for not believing in Allah. Or maybe the Aztecs had something, and we're all going to bad Aztec realm after we die for not believing in Chac Mool. Every religion has an equal chance of being the wrong one. So to me, it doesn't matter what happens after you die or really what religion you belong to. Under that train of though, I've based my morals and values around what would be best for people on earth, and that's what I concern myself with now. I don't believe that I will continue in an afterlife, but I do feel like I could live on through my children and people that I manage to help in the world. That is why I don't feel like life is a waste.

 

[Cheech & Chong]

http://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond.htm#dark

Pretty interesting.. ^

 

[Cali ' Kush]

I think throughout ur life , for the good and bad things you've done , you just get karma back in ur life.

 

[Annex]

What do you believe started everything? Someone or something greater than a human had to create everything that exists. Even with the big bang theory, something had to create that. There is never just nothingness, even in space.

Most atheists Ive talked to or have heard elaborate their thoughts have ideas that were only manifested because of a popular belief and a lack to comprehend anything else. Most everything we know is because someone told us, so who's to say that person is right? For example evolution, or even the big bang theory. (Which is once again a THEORY. For all we know a potato couldve created everything.)

I just think its somewhat asinine to assume NOTHING exists after we die, given that SOMETHING created us. Someone please elaborate so i can grasp the full concept of your thoughts on this. No answer is wrong because everyone is different, I just want a general idea or someone to explain their thought process on this idea.

What may surprise you is that empty space is actually quite unstable, given the quantum theory (which has had many many signs of collaborating evidence). You don't understand the quantum theory so you can never truly understand but the universe was originally smaller than the nucleus of an Atom and according to quantum theory it is ENTIRELY possible for something that small to simply appear in an unstable environment such as nothing or empty space.

Nothing had to create us, because its possible to simply spawn something into existence on the quantum level for example electrons. An Electron can occupy various orbits of an atom, BUT NOWHERE IN BETWEEN, so if you increase the energy level of it, it actually teleports between orbits.

Now given that all this small version of the universe was was energy and e=mc2 the big bang was really the expansion of the universe and the collision of the matter and antimatter formed by the energy that was created with the properties of this universe. Of course we were fortunate enough to have MORE matter than antimatter which is an imperfection and thus proving an perfect god is inviable, which resulted in boatloads of hydrogen in this universe.

But how did we get to use from hydrogen everywhere? Gravity. You see all the gas was evenly spread out, but again ANOTHER small imperfection in the amount of gas released (basically if you filled a football stadium with equally spread magnetic ball bearings and then removed 5 of them small imperfection) caused gravity to pull all the gas together, as it did this the temperature of the hydrogen rose and rose and rose to 15,000,000 at which point fusion was achieved (forming hydrogen into helium) and this process also caused helium to fuse into beryullium then into carbon ECT all the way to iron. Once enough of the fuel of the star becomes iron it supernova's which results in some of the iron fusing into heavier metals such as gold.

The supernova allowed planets to form and formed the basic materials for us to become alive.

Doesn't that sound a bit more plausible than some guy who is very human like in emotion creating the universe in 6 days about 5000 years ago when we can prove through radioactive decay that things are significantly older than that?

Anyways when you die, you simply decay into your basic materials, and eventually you become part of another plant or animal and move through the carbon chain and possibly you might even get to become another conscious animal. I don't see why you would have a spirit or need one. It doesn't tell your heart to beat, nor does it tell you what you see, it doesn't tell you what you feel both physically and emotionally as those seem to all be your brain and which is why brain-dead people can't do anything.

 

[Teeman88]

I think what happens after you die is nothing. Once your dead your dead.

 

[Da_Rage]

What happens after you die is exactly the thing that happened before you were born.

 

[Tyro]

When you die (the point at which you pass away, you are no longer alive and breathing on this planet any more) What do you believe happens?

I die.

What do you believe is the purpose of your life?

I don't "believe" in a purpose, I choose my purpose.

Are you not concerned of anything that might occur once you die?

Loved ones' sadness. Nothing more.

Don't you feel some spiritual being has to be accountable for all of your good and bad deeds?

I do not.