Do Any Atheists Feel This Way? (page 4)

lonelysheep

I guess in the final analysis, reality sometimes sucks and sometimes it bites you in the ass, but it NEVER lies to you, or asks you to lie to yourself in order to accept it. There's great comfort and satisfaction in that.

This is worth repeating, as well as the reason I've seen the glass as half full ever since accepting my gut feelings and being athiest. For me, it overrides anything and everything else religion and/or belief in a higher being has to offer. Unless I KNOW something to be true, it just isn't. Whether it be an afterlife of some kind or not. I'll never really know till I get there. I feel like I only have what I have--life here and now, mine and my loved ones. I will love up every minute of it! As long as I am alive, I will live; and since I don't know how long my life will be (and yes, in universal retrospect it is very short), then I've got to do all I can to make it a great one!

kls

miss him, I used to take comfort from hoping he was in a better place and that maybe he was sort of watching over me, but now I am beginning to think that is all bunk, when he closed his eyes that last time and drew his last breath, that was it, nothing, no more. Everything he knew, every memory he had gone when the neurons stopped firing. I was thinking of my children, they are going to watch me go someday and the whole cycle of it, I watch them come into being and they watch me exit just brought me down

Big Dog, do you have a fear that all that die are suffering in someway ,and yes those that are still alive when someone passes moarn the loss but they go on just as you have . I have lost mother , father ,sister and grand baby but the living go on and with the living are the memories of the loved ones that have passed .I don't believe the dead know they are dead so they have no memories of us for them to hurt for the living that have been left to live their lives .

You can't fight death but think of it as another stage that all must follow and never fear it .

greendawn

I feel sad for you atheists that you can no longer accept the hope of the gospel because it came to appear to you like a fairy tale, and the hope of eternal life a comforting illusion against death that's not worth holding on to. Better face an unpleasant reality that was scientifically proven you say.

kid-A

Better face an unpleasant reality that was scientifically proven you say.

Sorry, but there is nothing unpleasant about my reality!! I have a loving wife, loving family, wonderful career and have completely self-actualized my life while contributing my work to the human race. The natural world and the wonders that science have revealed about its workings are more than enough to keep me busy and satisfied. Some of us just are content with our lives and are happy with the precious time we have been given. I am surrounded in the love of my fellow humans, real, warm-blooded, sentient beings, rather than some vengeful, mythical tribal deity sitting on a throne in the sky to justify my existence.......

I feel sorry for you my friend......

RichieRich

Since I can't really pinpoint the time I converted to Atheism, I have no concrete definition of how I worked out the whole death thing.

I guess its because I was, and still am, young. You know, they say young people adjust to things quicker, so, that being said, all I can say is that I never really mourned myself and my imminent death. I just accepted it.

From a sociological perspective, I hold conflict perspective very close to my heart. He who kicks the hardest, will float to the top.

When I harvest a deer, I have beat him. I triumphed, and took what was his.

If someone was to put a bullet in my head tommorrow- well- I guess they won.

Thats really dark, isn't it?

lonelysheep

No need to feel sorry, Greendawn.

Richie, I wouldn't call what you said dark, but reality instead. Pretty or not, it is what it is.

greendawn

Kid A, I have no doubt that you are (and will continue) enjoying your life in an emotionally gratifying social environment, what I meant was that you atheists by the nature of your beliefs have no real hope after death.

As for the vengeful exacting god, that is the god of the watchtower not the real God of love, needless to tell you that I don't believe their version of god and the way he deals with mankind.

RichieRich

Well, I don't about the other Atheists, but I don't even believe in people.

That only takes about 2 minutes in a high school cafeteria to figure out.

I believe in myself, that counts right?

kid-A

Greendawn, I guess what I am trying to understand is, why do you feel you need something beyond the time you have been given? Why not live your life now and not worry about what may or may not happen when you die?

startingover

Well, I don't about the other Atheists, but I don't even believe in people.
That only takes about 2 minutes in a high school cafeteria to figure out.
I believe in myself, that counts right?

Richie, words of wisdom as far as I'm concerned. I feel the same way.

Looking back, I never really believed I would achieve life in a paradise, in fact I don't even remember ever wanting to. Because of that it was not a big step to accept this is all we have.

The freedom is what makes it all worth it.

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