Atheist, Are'nt you scared?

[Knowze Gungk]

People who believe the bible have more to be scared of than athiests. For the simple fact that the dimentions of heaven (stated in revelations [21]) are big enough to hold maybe 0.001% of all the people that have ever been, & ever will be. And if ya don't go to heaven, you're off to hell.

So what makes you so special & deserving to be in that 0.001%?

Athiests on the other hand, only have nothing to be scared of. And it is ilogical to be scared of nothing.

 

[Arminius]

Death is one of two things, neither of which is to be feared. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.

--Socrates

 

[FredLC]

Hmmm... this pool lacked an "other" option, so I voted "don't know".

I wanted other because I both am afraid, and am not.

I am not in the sense that I don't fear hell and I am not one tiny bit bothered by the concept of not existing.

But I am afraid of the manner my death will come to pass (hopefully, it will be painless), and I am sad to imagine all I'll be missing. If we had already deciphered all secrets of the universe, I could die with no regrets.

Regards .

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

The vast majority of people who claim to not be afraid of death have never experienced anything remotely resembling death. If all of the 114 people who have thus far voted "no" were actually put in a situation where they could or would die, they'd **** their pants and cry for mommy/pray harder than they've ever prayed before.

 

[ketalis]

To be honest the nothingness is something to look forward to. Think of it as rest.

 

[ketalis]

The vast majority of people who claim to not be afraid of death have never experienced anything remotely resembling death. If all of the 114 people who have thus far voted "no" were actually put in a situation where they could or would die, they'd **** their pants and cry for mommy/pray harder than they've ever prayed before.

LOL no **** 99.9% of everyone is afraid of death. It is a hardwired human fear. What the poll is asking is pretty much: are you afraid of the afterlife?

 

[FredLC]

LOL no **** 99.9% of everyone is afraid of death. It is a hardwired human fear. What the poll is asking is pretty much: are you afraid of the afterlife?

Indeed, but with bad wording.

 

[Quentin]

To be honest the nothingness is something to look forward to. Think of it as rest.

I can understand not fearing it but looking forward to it? Seriously?

 

[ketalis]

I can understand not fearing it but looking forward to it? Seriously?

Don't we all, sometimes? Okay maybe "looking forward to" is a little bit exaggerating, but it certainly isn't to be feared.

"Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force." - Master Yoda

 

[Abaddon]

Aren't you at least a little tiny bit scared of your afterlife?

NO, thats the whole point. I dont belive there is anything afterwards, with nothing i can do about it. So why be scared?

 

[blackheart]

Do You Realize
The Flaming Lips

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize

 

[blackheart]

Thanks for including any prospect of other religions' afterlife concepts Fox. I'm a "beliver" (not Christian), and I'm not scared. I could be atheist and still not be scared. What is the point of worrying and being afraid of an eventuality?

I also have a question for the Christian "believers" here. What makes you think that you deserve an eternity of a heaven? Does 70-80 years on Earth really qualify you for such an existence?

 

[Communisto]

Am I afraid of death? Who isn't?

Am I afraid of the Afterlife? No one thing that I encounter on Earth can show me 100% what my future is. I only have best guesses, which are probably wrong. My Atheism is the most rational (to me) thing that I can hold onto. There isn't one belief on this tiny, insignificant rock floating in the unimaginably large sea of existance that can ensure me a a future upon something that we on earth don't even have a right to estimate upon as our little theories tey to explain things so large and our minds are to small to actually comprehend the magnitude of what we theorize (being what comes after death).

 

[Stylesjl]

Of course i'm afraid of dying if i wasn't i wouldn't have any problems with jumping in front of a car

Atheist BTW

 

[Blazer6]

Not only do people want to be under the control of their religion, they are worried that those without religion will suffer after death. Don't think of it as being too generalized and hostile, just think it is an alternate to being under government control.

(not belonging to any group and welcomes death)

 

[nihilistic]

Aren't you at least a little tine bit scared of your afterlife? If what you say is true, then when you die, there is nothingness, so doesn't that scare you at all?

Well, sometimes it does, but what can you do about it anyway? Trying to trick or mesmerize myself with a rosier version of reality isn't really going to work, for 2 reasons:

1. The lie won't work. I'd be able to tell.
2. It doesn't solve the actual conflict of dying and disappearing. Even if I fooled myself into thinking there is an afterlife, it won't change the fact that there probably isn't. The world will not change because you believe (or conned yourself into thinking that) it will change.

 

[Yom]

I'm scared of dying (but I was when I was more religious as well), but the idea of an eternity of hell isn't too pleasing either.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Who bumped this thread?

 

[BasketCase]

Having experienced oblivion myself (loss of memory after a car accident), I can honestly say it doesn't scare me.

Oblivion is the absence of pain, the absence of fear. To not exist at all may be scary to some, but there are things in life that are a lot worse.

Besides, what would I do with eternity??? Spend the next billion years posting in Off-Topic?? I'd get SO bored.....

 

[I am the Future]

I honestly have no idea what to think, I started life off as a atheist who went to church. Then I got in a cult, and things were good. But then I became sain again and now I dont know. DAMN YOU ALL. at least if their is a hell. :crazyeyes: