Just curious.
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What Do Atheists Think Will Happen When They Die?
Just curious.
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Domesticus
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Voted for the first option.
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I'll let you know when I die.
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Wouldn't I have to die first?
Domesticus
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Oh come on people, the question is what do you think will happen. Apparently 5 of you are saying "I think I don't know, but I'm not sure." I suppose none of you have any imagination.
Here's how I see it, the brain is responsible for us being conscious and self-aware, and when the brain dies, no more consciousness and self-awareness. That's it, not very imaginative I suppose, but better than what 5 of you could come up with.
Civitate
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This doesn't mean we can't imagine what could happen. It means we don't think something will happen or not happen. A.K.A: I don't know, I'd have to find out when I die. So yes, I'll vote "I'm not sure".Oh come on people, the question is what do you think will happen. Apparently 5 of you are saying "I think I don't know, but I'm not sure." I suppose none of you have any imagination.
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Primicerius
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exactly, how can we know. its not like an athiest appeared back from the dead and said "hey i just died and this is what happened..." Or christians for that matter.
Yet Christians defend it like if they were certain this was going to happen. You have no evidence therefore why defend it so much. Your defending something your not even sure will happen or exists just because you don't have the guts to admit your wrong. It is people who believe whatever they hear without themselves confirming if its true or not that are a real danger to this world. People like this are those who get manipulated by the media and other powers. And they never accept they are right because living in a fairytale is more convinient than standing up to reality, just like those who take drugs or smoke can't stop, cause its easier than quitting...its the same thing and if you vulnerable to one your vulnerable to everything else. But in the end the consequences will be worse at the long run and when you get there you will feel worse, you will regret it and be unhappy.
And i will be where i always have been, standing right next to you saying "I TOLD YOU SO!"
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Tribunus
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What could possibly demean our existence more than the concept of an eternal afterlife in paradise.
Praefectus
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Nihilism.
Does that not seem obvious to anyone else?
To answer the original question: I (I don't claim to speak for atheists, hell, it pains me to classify myself with most of those idiots) know that it is through our brain that we are concious. When our brain ceases to function (due to lack of oxygen, or because it's been blown into twenty seperate parts, or melted, or whatever) we are no longer conscious.
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Primicerius
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Maybe god doesn't let us be sure about the afterlife so that we don't demean our existence. I am a christian but that question of nothingness makes this life have more worth. Probably every religious man isn't entirely sure about the afterlife, no matter how strong his faith is.
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Gorak
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I would say empty, emotionless, black but I fear its even worse than that. I'll just be gone, no awareness whatsoever
Of course I hope to be pleasantly suprised and end up in heaven but.. ah wishful thinking is wishful
Vicarius
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how can you get up everyday thinking like that.
thank my god I see dead peolpe the odd few times.
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Senator
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It's just not something you think about everyday. Death is a fact of life, everyone will have to deal with it some day whether you are atheist or theist. It's just that theists like to think that they have something to look forward to. I don't. It's almost selfish or self-indulgent, not wanting yourself to end with death. Are you really that important? Are you really that significant to God that it would bother with your existence? Or are you simply afraid of what you don't know?how can you get up everyday thinking like that.
thank my god I see dead peolpe the odd few times.
Gorak
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cyrgano de berganacelli got it right, I dont get up everyday thinking "just another day in a wasted worthless existence" Im just not gonna lie to myself. I hope I end up on some surreal plane of spiritual existence wandering with other souls and spirits from all corners of the universe, I hope the afterlife is just the "next step" in a huge series of different forms of "life", I even hope It'll be the christian god who is real, despite our horrible track record, but everything I know about existence (that is, nothing, in the grand scale of things) leads me to believe there is nothing, that we're just mortal life forms and our consciousness stems from our brains, which will die.how can you get up everyday thinking like that.
thank my god I see dead peolpe the odd few times.
Senator
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Anything that we can think of is as possible or impossible as anything else. Simple answer: I don't know and anyone alive doesn't know. For that reason I can't really give an answer because I could very likely be wrong.
I don't think that I will specifically see dark or blackness because that would assume a continuation of consciousness. I don't really think there will be an afterlife either - I couldn't tell you why I just don't think so. Reincarnation would be cool; hopefully I achieve Nirvana or something niceMaybe everything that constitutes me as a human being will just cease to exist. There will be nothing and I will see nothing because I will be gone. That's what I think. But what do I know?
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Given all we know about the brain I cannot imagine how consciousness can persist after the body ceases to function.
Biarchus
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The exact same thing that happened before I was conceived.
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You can observe empirically, what happens when you die.
You decompose.
Praeses
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I don't know, but I don't think life is as important to the universe as we make it out to be for ourselves. So probably nothing.
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- Richard Feynman's words. My atheism.
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