Question to athiests who say...

[Narz]

I was thinking of you when I made that post, Narziboo

I figured you might have been.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There is nothing wrong with hoping that a dead person you loved/respected suffers no indignity after death (ie. their funerary wishes not being carried out for whatever reason).

On the other hand, I have occasionally wished that a particularly hateful person would rest in pieces.

 

[silver 2039]

May you be touched by his noodly appendage.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I mean c'mon now if all there is, is total oblivion and complete nonexistence, what's all this resting in peace crap? THINK before you speak, eh? A little consistency is always appreciated. Otherwise confusion starts to mount.

It's a matter of speech. Get over it.

What do you mean with resting in peace crap? Does crap rest, or simply lie there feeling sorry for itself? Explain yourself!

 

[Elta]

Lotus, be glad you don't speak Spanish or Portuguese because you can't not talk like that in those languages (practically).



P.S. I was under the impression that rest in peace meant that no one robs their grave for the junk they are buried with.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

In a sence the person does live after death. The person is talked about and remembered long after he passes away. Also RIP to me means that you die with peace in mind.

 

[Xyan]

To a Buddhist, the term god refers to functions that support our activities. For example, when the available of a cab suddenly appear nearby when your wife suddenly go into labor or when the a student's notebook got blown open by the wind and she realised that she was going to the wrong venue for her examinations and changes bus immediately.

So a really lucky fellow is blessed by gods. But we do not believe in an all powerful entity.

We also believe that upon death, we are embraced back into the universe in a latent state. If our life-condition is peaceful, then there is peace, but if not, then there will be no peace.

We do wish "rest in peace". But not in the sense of being back with a creator because we do not believe in a creator.

And when the right condition arises... our latent life-state responses and ... reincarnation..

 

[Rhymes]

So, are they just not thinking about it? Just trying to be cordial?

Yes.......... Nothing more nothing less.

 

[Mirc]

Athiesism =/= no afterlife

QFT.

 

[Rambuchan]

Chill, its just a phrase.

Indeed. You'll give yourself a headache if you go around taking life so literally and seriously as the OP.

 

[holy king]

you may even make your own head asplode!

 

[IglooDame]

you may even make your own head asplode!

At which point, ironically, you would be resting in pieces as atheist friends tell you to rest in peace.

 

[Rambuchan]

At which point, ironically, you would be resting in pieces as atheist friends tell you to rest in peace.

You really woke up on fire today.

 

[IglooDame]

You really woke up on fire today.

I blame the second can of caffeine.

But really, I use 'gesundheit' instead of 'God bless you' toward people that sneeze, and even I don't think that 'Rest in peace' is atheistically contradictory.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I say it because I'm expressing my heartfelt concern that the deceased person remains as such instead of reemerging as a zombie or some sort of futuristic cyber-lich bent on murdering and plundering.

Why does that concern you? Wouldn't cyber-lichdom be preferrable to eternal oblivion?

 

[holy king]

ah, i'd say oblivion is much nicer than being a zombie, but on the other hand... hey, we're talking about being a zombie...

 

[Perfection]

QFT.

Of course it's true, I said it.

 

[Phlegmak]

..."may he/she rest in peace". I've thought about it for a minute or two, and I think it's a bit of a paradox. Anyway you see it from time to time - someone dies, like Evel Knievel, and known athiests say the afore mentioned phrase. So, are they just not thinking about it? Just trying to be cordial? I mean c'mon now if all there is, is total oblivion and complete nonexistence, what's all this resting in peace crap? THINK before you speak, eh? A little consistency is always appreciated. Otherwise confusion starts to mount.

There are plenty of expressions that are meaningless or unnecessary. I say "goddamned" and "good lordy" on a regular basis, and I'm an atheist. I also say certain things "can go to Hell" and so on.

 

[El_Machinae]

..."may he/she rest in peace". I've thought about it for a minute or two, and I think it's a bit of a paradox. Anyway you see it from time to time - someone dies, like Evel Knievel, and known athiests say the afore mentioned phrase. So, are they just not thinking about it? Just trying to be cordial? I mean c'mon now if all there is, is total oblivion and complete nonexistence, what's all this resting in peace crap? THINK before you speak, eh? A little consistency is always appreciated. Otherwise confusion starts to mount.

Remember this post the next time you refer to your heart in the context of some emotion.


PS: I also say "amen" after family prayers!

 

[warpus]

Can you explain how there could be an afterlife if there is no God of any sort?

You could live in paradise for a while, in your head, during the last moments of your death.

That's as likely as an actual afterlife existing, but there ya go.