How do you all handle the fact that in 120years max we'll all be dead forever. (points, soul)
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No one escapes death.
We will all die.
As a materialist atheist - I believe there is nothing but matter in the universe -no god , gods , spirits soul or anything ONLY atoms.
I believe we are our bodies more precisely our brains.
Our consciousness is a result of our brain.
And once we die, and our brain decomposes, that's it, we will never exist or experience anything for all eternity.
How do you handle that fact?.
To me it's terrifying and depressing that I will never experience anything again for all eternity.
Even so, you are the LIFE of your ancestors, living in the present. Your future LIFE will be alive living in your descendants. Learn to appreciate and nurture this undeniable reality, and you'll experience the full bounty of being alive, and you will transcend material limitations and anxieties! Peace be with you +
Wrong. It is not unanswerable. I have sufficient education and experience to comprehend the nature of the question and the answer to it. The fact that you lack that ability and are limited by it is not a reflection on me. Your limitations are not mine. If you do not like the answer, that is unfortunate for you, but it does not invalidate the answer.
You are letting your ego cloud your judgment; plus, you're getting a little testy, again, thanks to your ego. Learn to accept the truth that all humans are limited and fallible (except for you, right?). You and your education and experience are great (probably more like stupendous in your eyes), but you and every other human can only function within the confines of human limitation. But if you want to arrogantly proclaim otherwise, that's your freedom. But thinkibg that you know things that are not knowable or that you can transcend innate human limitation by using your education and experience is, in my view, a little arrogant and presumptuous, as pertaining to the metaphysical.
Hello OP. I may have a little insight into what you're feeling. One night while having dinner with friends, I found myself picturing everyone there as disappeared, and me as well. All the conversation, laughter, food, thoughts, emotions...vanished and forgotten. I was nowhere, nothing. It was a horrible sensation.
In the last few decades, I've had a couple of close calls with death. And I have to agree with other comments that death is one of the tough things about life that we have to accept. Some part of us may wish we still had our mother's undivided love, attention and protection, like when we were young. But that's just not possible. The older you get, the longer the list gets: All the things you miss, and wish you could get back.
What has helped me is the simple act of trying to have a good day. How can I make this day more interesting, more productive? How can I be a little kinder to the people I encounter? What beauty and pleasure can I bring into my life today?
To quote "Game of Thrones" (sorry!) "What do we say to the God of Death? Not today."
That sees like a sad way to live. I'd rather believe in God and eternal life than think that this little time on earth is it. To each their own I suppose but if I was a non-believer I would live a short and reckless life and be a horrible person, cuz there would be no consequences for my actions!
Peace
So the only thing that keeps you from being a horrible person is some religious belief? Seriously? That says a lot about you (and you didn't even realize it).
You don't have to believe in some fairy-tale afterlife to be a good, decent human being. It's really sad that you could think that.
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Originally Posted by Postal77
I agree that OP should rethink his belief system.
Sounds like athiesm isn't working out.
Trust in God is more secure. Start reading the book of Matthew in the New Testament Bible.
You DO understand that people with OTHER religions believe in them as much as you do in yours, right? (Oh, but yours MUST be right and theirs MUST be wrong. Um, OK.)
OP, I think you should start believing in the god Mabel *, who will give you eternal life if you believe in her ONLY and reject all other religions. She is the only savior. If you do not believe in her, you will be damned for all eternity. If you DO believe in her, you will never have to fear death again, because Mabel will be waiting for you "on the other side."
(How's that sound, Postal77? Pretty silly to you, huh? Well, that's how silly YOUR beliefs sound to people who don't believe the same religious "stuff" that you do.)
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* Mabel is my dearly departed and much-beloved cat. She was kind of like a god to me.
I mean, seriously? No one knows for sure, but to come up with fairy tales to make ourselves feel better ... well, again, seriously?
OR more likely, you're just DEAD and will not even know it. I don't know why people find that such a scary idea.
(Incidentally, I would LOVE it if there were really a wonderful, magical afterlife. I mean, of COURSE I would like to meet my father who died when I was not quite 2 years old, and see friends who perished LONG before their time, and see beloved animals who were and are so incredibly dear to me. But intellectually? It's simply impossible to believe any of that stuff, no matter how good it might make me feel. It's much more likely that we're just dead. Sorry, but we're just dead.)
You don't need intellect to believe in the afterlife; you need faith.
And it's not coming up with fairy tales, again, it's faith.
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