After life?

[Slick]

Mind you, as others have pointed out - once dead you would hardly be thinking what a shame it was that it had happened. Worrying about death is for the living!

I'm not so sure. Long story short, last year I lost a friend who fell down some stairs after a night out. I often think, they will be mad at the level of stupidity that cost them so dear. I've got others but it starts to get bleak. Enjoy what we have and enjoy. As the saying goes, we're here for a good time, not a long time.

 

[MontyVeda]

Why are you an atheist?

I didn't choose be an atheist. I've flirted with Christianity in my youth and spirituality in my late teens, but after much thought and deliberation, I find concepts such as a supreme being, gods & godesses, angels & demons, ghosts, spirits and miracles so unlikely that i just can't 'believe' in them... which i guess makes me an atheist.

 

[derrick]

I didn't choose be an atheist. I've flirted with Christianity in my youth and spirituality in my late teens, but after much thought and deliberation, I find concepts such as a supreme being, gods & godesses, angels & demons, ghosts, spirits and miracles so unlikely that i just can't 'believe' in them... which i guess makes me an atheist.

I have met a few angels in my time.but I am much the same.

 

[numbnuts]

non omnis moriar

 

[Slick]

non omnis moriar

I know that you are dying for someone to ask.

What does that mean?

 

[smutchin]

I didn't choose be an atheist.

I choose not to be an atheist - I am not defined by what I am not.

I find concepts such as a supreme being, gods & godesses, angels & demons, ghosts, spirits and miracles so unlikely that i just can't 'believe' in them... which i guess makes me an atheist.

The problem for me is not so much that they are unlikely as that they are made up. By people. Even if there is some kind of supreme being that exists outside the rational universe*, it will be beyond our powers to comprehend it. Any attempt to define 'God' is limited by the boundaries of human understanding.

I was brought up a Catholic and it was an almost totally positive experience, but I moved on when I discovered girls.

*there isn't

 

[smutchin]

I know that you are dying for someone to ask.

...but not wholly.

 

[Mrs M]

My next door neighbour (aged 86 next week) wants to come back as a cat but only if he lives with Mr M and myself.

 

[tyred]

Bob Dylan says he's "trying to get to heaven before they close the door."

 

[Milzy]

DNA the instruction book for life made its self by accident.

 

[TVC]

DNA the instruction book for life made its self by accident.

Not by accident, over millions of years trying. Certainly not by a beardy bloke 4000 years ago.

 

[smutchin]

Any attempt to define 'God' is limited by the boundaries of human understanding.

Just to explain further what I mean, this is why 'God' is generally depicted - like @The Velvet Curtain says - as 'a beardy bloke'. The Bible tells us that God created man in his image, but in fact man created God in his image.

 

[Milzy]

But how can the Big Bang come from nothing? Why did cells have to form millions of years ago?

 

[tyred]

To be quite honest, I don't really care what happened millions of years ago.

I'm here now, for a limited time only and aim to make the best of it.

 

[TVC]

But how can the Big Bang come from nothing? Why did cells have to form millions of years ago?

The concept of before the big bang is meaningless, as time is a dimension of the Universe then there can be no before.