As an atheist... What do you think happens to us after death?

Started by Primal, April 22, 2023, 04:13:22 PM

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Primal

A part of me wants to go back to the mental comforts of religion and believe I'll go to paradise after death, but I'd rather be sad and realistic than happy and deluded.

Personally, I think Hinduism have the right of it and we get reincarnated. But that's really more of a wild guess for me. All I know for sure is that my atoms end up somewhere. Maybe they carry my consciousness. Who knows?

aitm

Well, the reality, that which we know for sure, is your atoms DO go about and will be part of something else....so yes, you are in fact reincarnated, just perhaps, not in the way you wish.
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

Unbeliever

Quote from: Primal on April 22, 2023, 04:13:22 PMA part of me wants to go back to the mental comforts of religion and believe I'll go to paradise after death, but I'd rather be sad and realistic than happy and deluded.
Yeah, realism sucks, but at least it's interesting! 🦠🦕🧠


QuotePersonally, I think Hinduism have the right of it and we get reincarnated. But that's really more of a wild guess for me. All I know for sure is that my atoms end up somewhere. Maybe they carry my consciousness. Who knows?
I too "believe" in a kind of reincarnation - but not the usual kind. I think the universe has to be cyclic, and that each cycle is, on the whole, exactly like every other. In which case I'll exist again exactly as I have this time around.

But of course I'll remember nothing about this life life I'm living now any more than I remember now any past cycles.

Too bad I can't send a message to my future self! 🖖

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Gawdzilla Sama

I've been dead a few times, most recently during a six day coma after heart surgery. Didn't notice a thing during that time.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
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Unbeliever

As Twain pointed out, I was dead for billions of years before I was born, and it didn't bother me a bit. 👍
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Hijiri Byakuren

The only thing I believe "as an atheist" is that none of the gods humans have ever come up with are real.

As for what happens after we die, I'm content to say this: probably nothing, but I don't really know. I'll find out when I get there.
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Gawdzilla Sama

I will climb the slopes of Kolvir and take the Jewel of Judgment from Corwin's tomb and call up a storm on the next GOP convention.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

aitm

Well...once you're dead....what happens next is pretty much the same thing, only you don't realize it.
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust