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Author Topic:   Oh my God, I'm an Atheist !!
Vacate
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Message 112 of 183 (410456)
07-15-2007 7:42 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by riVeRraT
07-11-2007 10:33 AM


riVeRraT (in message 1) writes:
Will you at that moment look to God, and maybe ask Him something?
riVeRraT (in message 104) writes:
How strange is it that the majority of us want to live forever, yet our pyhsical beings won't?
I wonder if people would still commit suicide if they knew they could live forever, for certain.
I differ from the majority I guess. Its the thought of living for eternity that would cause me to commit suicide. I suppose that on my deathbed that would be my question for God: Must I continue?
Its not that I do not enjoy life. Its also not that I do not wish for a much longer life. An eternity of anything is a frightening concept! Thats why I prefer Agnosticism, the heaven that so many people strive to reach sounds like the same hell that they say I am heading for.

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Vacate
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Message 116 of 183 (410476)
07-15-2007 10:40 AM
Reply to: Message 114 by bluegenes
07-15-2007 8:23 AM


bluegenes writes:
I agree about heaven. Let's face it, the Jehovah's Witnesses who knock on my door are going there, and the Islamic suicide bombers are, not to mention real horrors like all the born again hillbillies and G. W. Bush.
Like you, I'll give it a miss.
Though I agree on all counts, thats not actually what I meant.
I literally find the idea terrifying.
riVeRraT (Message1) writes:
but I feel that when it all comes down to it, and you are on your death bed, and you are taking your last breath, I think that will change at that moment for you.
If some sort of truth pops into my head at my moment of death I see no comfort in an eternal anything. In heaven I would have the time to actually learn the math behind all that physics stuff that amazes me, perhaps even learn the most complex aspects of biology. I would read every book (maybe even the bad ones), talk to every person {soul}, maybe even have a few millenea to bang heads with God. Then what??? Seen it all, thought it all, learned it all.
Seriously - once I got all the bases covered Heaven is as much a curse as hell is. Hell may even be an interesting alternative being as I would not have experienced that yet! The interesting thing about pain is the more you are exposed to it the less it hurts. I don't actually fear hell any more than I fear heaven.
I think of Heaven like a chocolate bar. I enjoy it and may eat a second, but I know that faced with an eternity of eating chocolate I would rather sew my lips shut.
So I am agnostic and I hope that the Christians got it all wrong.

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