Atheism and the Afterlife

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I want to ask a REALLY simple question to Atheists:

What is the Afterlife and do you believe in it?

Please explain to me the Atheist Afterlife.
 
Athiest men get 73 beautiful women to enjoy in any way we want!

We also get an unlimited supply of chocolate ( to build up the strength of course!)


Athiest women get to live near the Great Department Store in the sky.

They also get complete access to the Great Shoe Stor ein the sky.


What more could you want :D
 
Joe, you dog, you! :D

C'mon, seriously, I want to know about the Atheist afterlife, I've recently been studying Atheism, it looks interesting since I've never studied it, and I would like some answers, and later compare it to other afterlife variants in other religions.


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The topic is a moot question. The question has absolutly no bearing on an atheists belief of an after life. By definition an atheist does not believe there will be an after life. An atheist believes that neither he nor a mouse have an afterlife, therefore they both go to the same place, which is not going any place.

Sort of like asking a person where do the contents of an empty box go when you bury the box.
 
This is interesting, so Muslims believe animals don't go to an afterlife? Why would that be? Because they have no soul?
 
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KAding said:
This is interesting, so Muslims believe animals have don't go to an afterlife? Why would that be? Because they have no soul?
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from what i've learnt...animals have an afterlife...and even stones and etc...

anyway i might be wrong...lets wait for the knowledgeable ones to answer.
 
As an atheist, I don't accept an afterlife. The best way to describe my end is that I will be in the same place I was in 1969! (I was born in 1970)

The atoms that make up my body will simply change thier complex shape and one day my atoms that make me will be a tree or part of a star in a new galaxy, the atoms that make me will be around a lot longer than me!
 
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As an atheist, I don't accept an afterlife. The best way to describe my end is that I will be in the same place I was in 1969! (I was born in 1970)

The atoms that make up my body will simply change thier complex shape and one day my atoms that make me will be a tree or part of a star in a new galaxy, the atoms that make me will be around a lot longer than me!
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What? You're kidding! Then there must be different kind of Atheists.

Here's what I got from another Atheist, but this guy's a physics genius:

He says that when you die, you are reborn, in the physical/atomical sense.

See, in your lifetime, you die many times; your five-year-old self is not alive anymore, he's dead; your ten-year-old self is also dead, and you were reborn, without your conscience.

So, when you die, physically you are there, but you will become another life form, maybe grass or something, maybe another person. The atoms that make up your body would join the roots of your tomb and become live dirt, or maybe termites.

Somehow it'll make sense, if you're a physics genius, but that's what I got from another genius.
 
Dahir said:
What? You're kidding! Then there must be different kind of Atheists.

Here's what I got from another Atheist, but this guy's a physics genius:

He says that when you die, you are reborn, in the physical/atomical sense.

See, in your lifetime, you die many times; your five-year-old self is not alive anymore, he's dead; your ten-year-old self is also dead, and you were reborn, without your conscience.

So, when you die, physically you are there, but you will become another life form, maybe grass or something, maybe another person. The atoms that make up your body would join the roots of your tomb and become live dirt, or maybe termites.

Somehow it'll make sense, if you're a physics genius, but that's what I got from another genius.
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Atheists do not believe in an afterlife or a supreme being. It is not a very hard concept to grasp.
 
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    1. <LI type=a>One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
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  2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
 
@KAding
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This is interesting, so Muslims believe animals don't go to an afterlife? Why would that be? Because they have no soul?
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I think what brother Woodrow was saying here was: Atheist think that mice don't have a soul and thus don't have an afterlife. We do believe mice have soul, and thus they will have an afterlife.

@Root
As an atheist, I don't accept an afterlife. The best way to describe my end is that I will be in the same place I was in 1969! (I was born in 1970)
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That's a simplistic line of reasoning, just because you weren't there in the past doesn't mean you will no longer be there in the future either. That's like comparing cat's with dogs.

@Dahir
What? You're kidding! Then there must be different kind of Atheists.

Here's what I got from another Atheist, but this guy's a physics genius:

He says that when you die, you are reborn, in the physical/atomical sense.

See, in your lifetime, you die many times; your five-year-old self is not alive anymore, he's dead; your ten-year-old self is also dead, and you were reborn, without your conscience.

So, when you die, physically you are there, but you will become another life form, maybe grass or something, maybe another person. The atoms that make up your body would join the roots of your tomb and become live dirt, or maybe termites.

Somehow it'll make sense, if you're a physics genius, but that's what I got from another genius.
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The difrence here is, this atheist you refer to sees people as nothing more then flesh and bones. Atoms made up out of energy, energy which will constitute a difrent matter once in the future, albeit animate or inanimate. But dualism tels us that the essence of a human being is something entirely difrent: the soul ;, and that our bodies are nothing but shells. So i'd say this isn't really an "afterlife" this is just a description of waht your cels will become "after life". Afterlife, in contrary to after life is mostly interested in what will happen to our consciousness as opposed to what will happen to our flesh.

@therebbe
Just because you as an atheist don't believe in an afterlife, doesn't mean that other atheist can't believe in an afterlife. As you said, atheism means believing there is no God. Some people who believe in reincarnation also believe there is no God, but obviously they believe in an afterworld.
 
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therebbe said:
Atheists do not believe in an afterlife or a supreme being. It is not a very hard concept to grasp.
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I have always been amazed at all the questions put to atheists.
I see athleticism as the easiest thing to understand.
How simple can it get?

No god!

That also means no ghosts, no spirits, no afterlife, no heaven, no hell, no angles, no jinn, no soul, and no ETC……….

What part of NO, can not be understood?
 
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I have always been amazed at all the questions put to atheists.
I see athleticism as the easiest thing to understand.
How simple can it get?

No god!

That also means no ghosts, no spirits, no afterlife, no heaven, no hell, no angles, no jinn, no soul, and no ETC……….
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Actually as I said it's perfectly possible not to believe in God yet believe in ghosts or other metaphysical things. What you are suggesting actually lies closer to pragmatism then atheism.
 
@therebbe
Just because you as an atheist don't believe in an afterlife, doesn't mean that other atheist can't believe in an afterlife. As you said, atheism means believing there is no God. Some people who believe in reincarnation also believe there is no God, but obviously they believe in an afterworld.
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First off, I am not an atheist.

Second, Atheism means no belief in a supreme being or any kind of after life.
 
prag•ma•tism way of thinking about results: a straightforward practical way of thinking about things or dealing with problems, concerned with results rather than with theories and principles.
 

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