Atheists believe in this life, in life before death, do you still seriously say that's nothing at all ?
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I never said that was nothing at all.  You know what?. . .I like it more when you ask funny questions.  Did you notice how Christian93 posted 8 comments to your question about gay sex?  Looks like someone has a crush on you!!!!
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Life before and after death, my view:\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7dNzZV06cpnGmuKQRUwj0WV6Ig--?cq=1&p=1
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You are right, you are confused about atheists, you also have a very funny idea about what belief entails... \n\nAtheists have belief in evidenced things with proof, however blind faith of the religious kind requires no proof or evidence that is why it is called faith, if there was evidence for God it wouldn't require faith to believe in God. \n\nOne of the problems with blind faith is that you can believe almost anything through it, God, The Celestial Teapot, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Vanilla Flavoured Fairies or anything that cannot be proved or disproved, this invalidates blind faith as a tool of knowledge.\n\nThe onus is always on the person or organisation making a claim to provide proof or evidence for it. When there is no way to test the truth of the claim because of a lack of proof or evidence it is called unfalsifiable.\n\nI have no beliefs about God I simply do not share the theists belief in the existence of God/Gods, I have no reason to think that a God exists and it is not hypocritical for me as an atheist to say so. Hope this explains it a bit better for you.
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None. i'm an atheist. And I don't know what my destiny is because i don't believe that you can tell the future and you never know what's going to happen tomorrow (or in a year). respect is important. But it doesn't make it beautiful.
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hmmm:) yes...\nand there is "before life", too...!!!\nwhy do you ask?\nall of us who may be Afraid to DIE...are certainly afraid of LIVING!!!!\nThere really is Only ONE thing that Really matters---in my opinion---Is NOW!!!\nForgive yourself for yesterday---Look Forward to Tomorrow...and!!!\nENjoy  TODAY...NOW:)
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No. God is forever. Atheists are whatever.
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I am an atheist too, but I think you are wrong on one point.\n\nLife does has a meaning, to one's self.  I don't doubt that you feel that way, but there is no shame in expressing it.\n\nMy life has great purpose, since it is the only one I have.  When I die, that's the whole ballgame, so I do my best to enjoy it.\n\nMany Christians and theists think that enjoyment of life, without the trappings of a judgement of heaven and hell, leads to some sort of hedonism.  It doesn't.   All it leads to is a fuller enjoyment of THIS life.  I love making people happy.  I love seeing people smile and I hate pain.\n\nWhy?  Because evolution hard-wired it into me, probably, but it gives meaning to my life nontheless.\n\nSo enjoy life.  Laugh and love and allow others to do the same.  Spot judging and hating others, as that only makes your life crappier.  \n\nLife does has meaning, but it only means something if you really do your best with it.
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Atheism.  Like it or not, there has always been at least 1 Atheist in existence throughout human history.
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I do believe in an afterlife, but assuming heaven did not exist, then, yes I believe humans would create a belief in one for comfort and expectation of a new life to come.  I could even go as far as to say the mind is a powerful thing, powerful enough to even create supposed proof of afterlife by communicating with departed souls.  But, if the mind is that powerful, enough to falsely prove life exists after this one, isn't that power enough to say something bigger is going on here.  It points to the path the soul does live on, in my opinion.
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Philosophers have wrangled with this question for centuries and I comes down to this:  You simply cannot prove that you exist.  You can't even prove that the outside world exists.  After all, 'you' could just be a brain in a vat somewhere being stimulated by electrodes that make you 'see', 'feel', and 'touch'.  What philosophers have come up with is the concept of a "Properly Basic Belief".  It means that if there is no evidence whatsoever to the contrary, then you can probably safely assume that it's true.  However, that doesn't mean you can prove it.  And of course you have to be open to the possibility that evidence may turn up at some time.  So until there is evidence that I don't exist, I'll stick with the philosophers and say it's a "Properly Basic Belief" that I exist.  And of course, there's the old standby of "I think, therefore I am."
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I don't think you have to believe in God to believe in some kind of afterlife, there are many relgions in the world each one with it's own beliefs and viewpoints.  I personally believe in a soul, but that does not automatically mean I believe in Heaven.  I do believe something wonderful will happen when I die, I am just not sure what that is yet, and I hope it is along time before I find out.  Maybe he was there, because evryone was thinking about him.  It's hard to say.
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Because there is no evidence of an afterlife I try to enjoy this one life as much as possible. Religion does not provide all the answers for me. Atheism does. So with that core belief in place I must live this life to the fullest. I've traveled to almost every Continent. I've skydove, hanglided, bungeed and hot air ballooned. I've driven a Ferrari 155 m.p.h. I've gambled lots of money. I've done drugs. I've frequented strip clubs and enjoyed pornography. I've volunteered at a soup kitchen and a homeless shelter. I've read the bible, the koran, the torah and budhist philosophies. I've been to China! I learned to juggle 5 objects at the same time(very difficult). I've sat by a swimming pool every day for six months and drank myself silly. I've gone to chuch, prayed to "God". I've watched TV for hours. I played basketball on the collegiate level. I played bass guitar in a rock n roll band. There is much more to come....\n\nIt fills the void. I wish that I could just close my eyes and have religious faith, but my experiences won't let me. My experiences tell me that when you die, you die. That's it. It's over. No one ever comes back. Not Huidini, not Elvis, not Jesus. So when I'm on my death bed I only want the knowledge that I did as much as I could with my one life. And just like everyone else when I die, my existence ends forever. Pretty scary thought, but religeon deals with that thought by saying "No it's not over, don't worry. Uhm follow us and you'll uhhh live forever! Yeah that's it, you never have to really die! Yea. you'll live forever! In the clouds!...That's why it's so popular. \n\nSo first, come to terms with the FACT that you're going to die and never live or see, or feel or taste that succulent Lobster dipped in butter again. Then go out and enjoy life and don't let the people who are in denial get in your way!\n\nEnjoy!
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Yes. Among other things, atheists believe in the scientific method, they believe in the material world, they believe only in what they know through their senses, they believe in their own happiness and in societal values (whatever they may be), and they believe religiously in the atheistic article of faith that there is no God.
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How is it rational to say with certainty that something does exist when the possibility will always remain that it does not?\n\nNOT believing is what atheism means.
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Atheists just don't believe at all. Good, bad or indifferent it's irrelevant.
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Not necessarily.\n\nAn atheist does not have to disprove anything, its a blank.  He chooses to enter the debate of God/gods but "must" does not apply.  Belief in nothing is not a belief system, but trying to disprove faith becomes an avocation.\n\nAgnostics would seem to me to be more engaged in a inner dialogue of an existence of a higher power.  It isn't really sitting on the fence as one said, but perhaps standing at different times on either side of the fence.
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Nothing does exist, nothing is real. Life is a journey, not a destination. Our perception of life is only memory and stimulation of senses. These things are not permanent in time. After our bodies and mind have decayed, from our perspective nothing exists. Because our memory of our entire life is also decayed, our life will also not exist. \n\nTherefore we exist only in the eyes of God because only God can transcend time. We are a creation of God and a part of him. Death is permanent. Death is reality.