What do atheists think of death?

thank god that we have the 300 limit here... have you seen the most recent thread(s) on this at iidb??? I was involved in the early days when it was mere '00s of posts long, but when it strayed into the '000s and possibly '0000s...!!! But it is a fun topic, if only to see two diametrically opposed camps, both claiming to be the true materialists

Hmmm... perhaps I should start the teleport thread here. You do realise you have to shoot yourself in the head, don't you?

General relativity gives us a very interesting view on time - we can't completely trust it becasue it isn't a quantum theory, but it's certainly worth thinking about...There is no such thing as time as we think of it in common use. There is no Universal clock ticking out time, as if the Universe progresses from the past to the future, and we all ride along on this thing called now. GR has no 'now', no ticking clock. There is just a static, unchanging four dimemsional space-time. We are tiny four-dimensionally extruded worms, demarked at either end by 'birth' and 'death', but such titles have no real relevance.Somehow, the structure of the four dimensional mass of neurons that exists between 'birth' and 'death' magically gives rise to an emergent property called consciousness, which appears as a 3d dynamic entity within the fixed 4d world. I am this entity, and I seem to be a temporal ordering of this 3d viewpoint. But at the far end of this ordering (that that we call death), there is no 'time' that races off into the future, leaving my 'existence' behind. Everything just is, as it alwasy 'is' been. Perhaps, from my 3d persepctive, this ordering never ceases, and I just go round again?Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.

You've not spent much time at IIDB, have you?