I know I am new,but I need your help and advice.Supposing you are all atheists,how do you overcome the fear of death?This awful feeling that you will disappear...
Well, you're obviously not happy with the idea , so why wind yourself up? It sounds as though you may have joined the wrong group! I am an atheist and believe...
Hmm. By accepting that reality just is. After all, why would it be any different for us than for anything that is alive? Bacteria die daily, never heard...
What is this theistic obsession with death? Live life as the only one you've got. I know that must be the case because the brain is not a cognitive prosthesis,...
Woody Allen said "I don't mind the thought of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens." Once you are dead you won't notice the problem is fearing...
Hi I wonder what you are resisting? Is it that you need to believe there is something there, after death, to help you through your life – that you may meet...
Don't wish your life away !!! Very good point Elizabeth. If you are not happy that this is it, and there is nothing thereafter, perhaps you are a secularist...
Very compassionate, Vicky, but surely the real issue isn't what we would LIKE to be waiting for us after death, but what IS waiting for us: oblivion. As I said...
By saying "secularist", what I think you may be referring to is that impossible "Sitting On The Fence" trick they like to call agnostic. This person calling...
No,I am not a secularist,nor an agnostic.Certainly not.I just wanted to know how could I overcome this fear that one day i`ll stop existing.This was all!And I...
You almost strike me as being a troll but, at the moment, I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Your question interested me. Personally, I do not think...
This is a reply to Suntsatula (I hope that is the correct spelling). You have hit the atheist nail on the head. I cannot subscribe to any concept of God as...
How do you know? What gives any of us the right to say what is or is not the truth? You sound like you have a belief system just as strong as any religious...
Ask yourself why you have this fear of not existing. Do animals have this fear? I would say not, at least I hope not, as I would not want them to sink to our...
I repeat - how do you know any of what you say? You are going on your own reasoning, which is fine, but it is only reasoning, and probably will change over...
Hmmmmm. Do you have some knowledge which the rest of us don't? How do you know what the truth of the matter is if you don't understand your own self? John PM...
I know from science, Paul. People who suffer brain damage suffer personality changes as well. Ergo, the personality--"you"-- is dependent upon the physical...
I understand myself just fine, why are you trolling in the group again? We already dealt with your supernaturalism last time. And yeah, I probably have tons of...
Atheism is a belief system,too.Yes,I now understand it.Atheists believe in "not believing".Knowing this ,things get even more complicated for me.Because I need...
Bacteria die daily,yes,but I am not a bacteria.I never was and I`ll never be,not even if I die.Life is discreet ,but it`s a miracle.Nobody knows how it does...
Life is not a miracle; it has no need of a supernatural component to explain it. You are not a bacteria, but you are seamlessly joined to one in a long line of...
That is a nonsensical argument. The absence of something is not that something. I don't collect stamps, so by your reasoning I must be a philatelist. I don't...
The tough thing is exactly this one:that brain`s death means the death of the personality,this is what I fear most.In absence of any evidence,I am forced to...
I don`t have to ask myself,I know the answer:I have the fear of not existing because I am alive.Every living being fears death and is trying to avoid...
You don't have to ask yourself because you have the answer? We can "know" only 2 things - one, that we are alive, and 2, SOMETHING exists, but we cannot be...
Tony, I know I kep on saying this, but it is not possible to say what IS, it is only possible, if at all, to say what is NOT. You have decided, apparently,...
This is for Lucy. I obviously don't know you personally, so I don't know what is going on in your head as regards what you would call spirituality, but no, you...
