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LDSdude
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Message 1 of 162 (182677)
02-02-2005 7:25 PM


What happens after death for an Atheist. I mean, to all you atheists, can you imagine your current mind just...............gone? Nothing? Emptiness? Is there supposedly anything for you after death? No more life to live, no more influence in the world, not knowing what is happening in the world? Just................gone! If so, what is the purpose of your lives? To have fun? To make things better for generations to come? Is it to spend one-sixth of your life on the toilet? Is it to see the world? Huh? It can't be to learn everything you can, because once you're dead it's of no influence to you. There is no you. There would be no anything as far as you'd be concerned.
So seriously, I just want to know what an Atheist honestly expects after he/she dies. I don't want to know what happens to your body, I want to know what happens to your personality. What is it? Huh?

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Message 2 of 162 (182679)
02-02-2005 7:35 PM


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CK
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Message 3 of 162 (182680)
02-02-2005 7:48 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by LDSdude
02-02-2005 7:25 PM


What happens after we are dead?
The body rots and it's game over - you are gone. Hopefully you had a good time while you are here.

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Message 4 of 162 (182682)
02-02-2005 7:53 PM
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02-02-2005 7:25 PM


The same thing that happens to every living thing after it dies ... it becomes food for the life that remains!
Are you so shallow as to think that just because we have just this one short life that life is meaningless and we shouldn't strive to better things and expand our knowledge? What a small minded person you are. How old are you? Are you just some ignorant kid or are you an adult of some years?
A person can make a mark in this world by what they have accomplished and published for the world to know. After all we on this site often refer to Darwin, our founding fathers, even Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov and others who have long past shuffled off their mortal coil. To be dead does not mean you have no influence on the living. Yes our minds will be gone but maybe some of us lives on in our works.

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Asgara
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Message 5 of 162 (182683)
02-02-2005 7:58 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by LDSdude
02-02-2005 7:25 PM


When I die, I will be gone. Memories and thoughts of me will live on in the people that I have touched.
My personal purpose is to live a happy, productive life and raise my children to do the same. They will pass on this purpose to their children and so on down the line. Hopefully I leave this world a better place for those that come after me. Afterall, the better I leave this world, the better chance my genes have of surviving into the future.
As far as your comment -
It can't be to learn everything you can, because once you're dead it's of no influence to you.
The more I learn and understand the better I can help others understand it also. The more everyone understands any issue the better equiped they are to handle it, the more everyone understands a problem the easier it will be for someone to fix it.

Asgara
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Message 6 of 162 (182686)
02-02-2005 8:25 PM


Atheists decompose with dignity.We become part of the greatest re-cycling scheme in history. Maybe I was part of an Egyptian princess in a past life? After all, just about every psychic channeller was.
So better make your days here count, else you are just taking up room and resources.

  
sidelined
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Message 7 of 162 (182688)
02-02-2005 9:14 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by LDSdude
02-02-2005 7:25 PM


LDSdude
What happens after death for an Atheist.
The same as you though you may tend to rail against the inevitable. Death is the end and your consciousness is history.
Nothing? Emptiness
LOL! Even less than that,since you reference emptiness and nothing from a conscious location while you are alive.It is exactly the same as before you were born,no address,no title.
what is the purpose of your lives?
Pretty much all the same things you find purposeful {maybe more maybe less} sans god.
Is it to spend one-sixth of your life on the toilet?
LOL!! Dude, I gotta ask. Do you spend one sixth of your time{four hours a day} on the toilet? If so man, you need a god.
Personality is a function of your existence which at death no longer remains.I have such a shitty personality that I suppose few will regret the passing. Oh well,screw them.
May I ask what you think atheists should feel about as regards death in your view?

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Message 8 of 162 (182690)
02-02-2005 9:38 PM
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02-02-2005 7:25 PM


I honestly expect all the voltages between synapses in my brain to go to zero. I expect the same for my dog, my cat, my wife and kids, and for you, too. I don't expect you to remember me, but those of my family that outlive my zeroing out probably will.
What I can no longer fathom, here in my late fifties, is that so very many people cling to a belief in some ongoing existence after death in the complete absence of any evidence for such a thing, and with such a strong case against the possibility. I, too, once thought of it as an attractive concept, but I don't think that I ever was convinced of such an oddity even in my churchy days. Not after about the same age that I gave up on Santa Claus, at least.

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Asgara
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Message 9 of 162 (182691)
02-02-2005 9:41 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by sidelined
02-02-2005 9:14 PM


Regularity
LOL!! Dude, I gotta ask....
I don't think its god he needs, its obviously some heavy duty Metamucil.

Asgara
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Message 10 of 162 (182692)
02-02-2005 9:46 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by LDSdude
02-02-2005 7:25 PM


Nothing? Emptiness? Is there supposedly anything for you after death? No more life to live, no more influence in the world, not knowing what is happening in the world?
Yeah, that's basically it. But because there is that emptiness/nothingness, we aren't going to be greatly bothered by it when we're there.
It can't be to learn everything you can, because once you're dead it's of no influence to you.
Maybe not to me personally, but I'm about to start studying science at university and hopefully one day I might discover something that will be of great influence to the world long after I'm gone. If not, well, such is life.

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Message 11 of 162 (182693)
02-02-2005 9:49 PM
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02-02-2005 9:41 PM


Re: Regularity
I don't think its god he needs, its obviously some heavy duty Metamucil.
Or at the very least, a few good books.

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Asgara
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Message 12 of 162 (182694)
02-02-2005 10:20 PM
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Re: Regularity
War and Peace
Gone With the Wind
Remembrance of Things Past
Lord of the Rings
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.
.
Yongle Dadian

Asgara
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Terry48420
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Message 13 of 162 (182695)
02-02-2005 10:21 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by LDSdude
02-02-2005 7:25 PM


I just want to know what an Atheist honestly expects after he/she dies.
What they expect and what they will get are two different things. They probably expect to be dead all over just like rover, but what really happens is their eternal soul will burn forever in hell.

Ps 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.

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Message 14 of 162 (182697)
02-02-2005 10:32 PM
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02-02-2005 10:21 PM


Off topic post-Edited by moi.
PS Read my signature.
This message has been edited by Jacen, 02-02-2005 22:38 AM

People, please look at the Style Guide for EvC thread by Sylas. Pay particular attention to step 3.
Let's play a game, shall we?
Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Luke 19:22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

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Demosthenes Fan
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Message 15 of 162 (182699)
02-02-2005 10:41 PM
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02-02-2005 10:21 PM


What they expect and what they will get are two different things. They probably expect to be dead all over just like rover, but what really happens is their eternal soul will burn forever in hell.
Hey! Now there’s a great suggestion for a new topic thread; The Thermodynamics of Hell: How Hot Would It Need to Be to Make an Atheist’s Incorporeal, Invisible, Make-believe Eternal Soul Burn for Eternity?

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." ~ Douglas Adams
I wish more people would shave with Occam's Razor. Orson Scott Card

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