Does Death Ever Bother You?

[The Bullfrog]

I asked what evidence you had for the statement you made. Now you have changed it to what you believe. Everyone is free to believe whatever they wish. No need for evidence for a belief

I am sorry but I don't understand your criticisms. Could you clarify please?

 

[adi2d]

I am sorry but I don't understand your criticisms. Could you clarify please?

No criticism meant.

No evidence for or against experience after death. I just put it in my 'I don't know' file. The older I get the bigger that file gets.

 

[The Bullfrog]

No criticism meant.

No evidence for or against experience after death. I just put it in my 'I don't know' file. The older I get the bigger that file gets.

Of course you are fee to whatever devices you deem fit.

Thoughts, emotions, ego, desire, pain, sexuality, perception, all that which allows us to experience existence, comes from the human brain. When the body dies the brain dies. I could only concluded that my ability to experience existence dies as well.

You can classify it as something you don't know, but it seems like a very convincing line of thought to me.

 

[Altfish]

I was asked by an RE student, "what happens when you die?"

A good question, I said, "Where were you in 1900? Because it'll be just the same apart from people will have memories of you"

I have no illusions about there being 'another life', this is the only one I've got, I'm going to enjoy it and make other people's lives more enjoyable too.

 

[Nymphs]

As, an atheist does death ever bother or worry you at all?

Sometimes.

I'm afraid of dying, not being dead.

The pain is what scares the ever-living-**** out of me.

Once I'm dead, I'm dead, and I'm totally cool with that.

 

[Altfish]

Death is the same whether you are a believer or non-believer. The only difference is that the believer has faith that they are going to a better place; us atheists can't accept that as fact and face reality instead.

 

[Will Campbell]

I was asked by an RE student, "what happens when you die?"

A good question, I said, "Where were you in 1900? Because it'll be just the same apart from people will have memories of you"

I have no illusions about there being 'another life', this is the only one I've got, I'm going to enjoy it and make other people's lives more enjoyable too.

Yep!! I love my hero:

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own--a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature." ~Dr. Albert Einstein~

 

[The Adept]

'Life' concerns me;
death can take care of itself (it is free to fail)

 

[Michael Colton]

My own death? No, that does not concern me. If you mean life and death within humankind, societies, war, all that sort of thing - of course.

 

[s2a]

As, an atheist does death ever bother or worry you at all?

Is death a wished upon outcome? I kinda doubt it.

"Death" is not the thing that may be feared...it's how one may come to, of confront death. that remains a bit spooky.

Just to be clear, 'atheists" more that others acknowledge the finality of death, no wishes that a "soul" continues on in some eternal, realm of existence. What did we "know" before conception? Um, nothing. How then any return to non-existence scary? It's ...not.

What troubles many sentient and self=aware beings...put in short reply...is missing out on reading tomorrow's paper. Missing out upon a new discovery, revelation, experience. That is what I would miss most.

I've said it a hundred times by now, I have no desire to "go"... unless I eventually no longer care about the world, or it hurts too much to hang around. That's about it.

The thought of being "recycled" into the cosmos is NOT a scary proposition whatsoever.

Make sense?

 

[Sha'irullah]

I am happy that we die, I really do not care for experiencing life for eternity and the thought of an endless conscious existence is hellish.