Happy people are better and superior

GuitarBizarre · 08-16-2014, 07:16 PM

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Isn't being religious all about living in shame/guilt and a fear of going to hell? How is that pleasurable?

Some people can derive a lot of pleasure from believing really far-out ****, but that can be kinda risky. The beliefs are out of tune with knowledge and general experience and beliefs built on those lies can be like a house of cards. If it comes crashing down, you're miserable. Plus, I get pleasure out of believing that I believe in something that is actually pretty close to truth. I think everyone should, so bit of an agenda there, a bit like religious missionary.

By the way, I get why I might worry about the events leading up to death, but why would I, as an atheist, worry about being dead? I don't and I don't whine about it either. To me, being dead would be like my life in year 1000. It hadn't really started so I have no experience of it and so wouldn't care about anything either way.

Atheist attitudes to death in a nutshell - "There is literally no way to experience whatever horrors your religion has told you exist after death. Why would we worry about it?"

GuD · 08-16-2014, 08:39 PM

^all the more reason to FIDLAR every night

ladyislingering · 08-16-2014, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Atheist attitudes to death in a nutshell - "There is literally no way to experience whatever horrors your religion has told you exist after death. Why would we worry about it?"

I think it's a more peaceful state of mind to not be worried about eternal suffering. I'm going to die someday. You're going to die someday. You and I are dramatically different in many ways, but we'll both come to ashes or rot into bones. We are just human remains. Why should we care when we're going to die if it's unavoidable? Why not enjoy the thought that there is no suffering after death, especially if in many instances, suffering comes before death? I'd rather know that I'll feel nothing when I'm dead than to fear that Jesus will snark at my tattoos and damn me to hell.

RoxyRollah · 08-16-2014, 10:31 PM

Am I the only person who feels my soul? Ive seen a couple different posts in various threads by different folks that don't belive in one. Im only asking I'm not judging. Mainly Im just wondering if Im the only person on here that belives we have a soul bc of how I feel inwardly.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 08-16-2014, 10:33 PM

what does a soul feel like?

RoxyRollah · 08-16-2014, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

what does a soul feel like?

Are you asking in earnest?

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 08-16-2014, 10:56 PM

yea.

Neapolitan · 08-16-2014, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Sansa gets banned > Nonsensical preacher shows up.

Coincidence?

I find that funny that whenever we get an occasional off-beat newbie someone is bond to feel that it's either Sansa or Dirty. It seems they left an lasting mark on this site, by having people paranoid or suspicious they will show up again. I think both hated this site, but they loved hating this site which I guess made feel happy inside?

The Batlord · 08-16-2014, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

I think it's a more peaceful state of mind to not be worried about eternal suffering. I'm going to die someday. You're going to die someday. You and I are dramatically different in many ways, but we'll both come to ashes or rot into bones. We are just human remains. Why should we care when we're going to die if it's unavoidable? Why not enjoy the thought that there is no suffering after death, especially if in many instances, suffering comes before death? I'd rather know that I'll feel nothing when I'm dead than to fear that Jesus will snark at my tattoos and damn me to hell.

Cause **** death, that's why. I put time into wondering about how interstellar space travel will be accomplished and you're telling me that I'll almost certainly never get to find out? That's ****ing bull****. I don't get why a lot of atheists are so cavalier about death. If I'm in a coma then keep me alive as long as possible. I don't give a **** if I'm brain dead. I'll be a ****ing vegetable living on a respirator. In all likelihood I'll either be completely unconscious, or dreaming. Either way it's all good and I'm perfectly happy to lay there and wait for somebody to find a cure for whatever is wrong with me. And if that doesn't pan out then cut my head off and cryogenically freeze that bitch. I don't play with none of that ****ing death ****.

You people better hope I don't find out some way to sacrifice you to Satan for eternal life.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 08-16-2014, 11:20 PM

i don't want to die either, but it is what it is. you gain nothing by dwelling on it.

tbh i had that sort of crisis when i was about 19 or so. eventually i just stopped caring about it all that much. there was no reasoning or rationale to this change of heart really. you just get used to an idea and then grow to accept it over time. you get a pretty good run out of life if you are born under the right circumstances, which almost everyone here with net access most certainly was. so quit whining about death. the universe doesn't owe you ****.

08-16-2014, 08:39 PM	#72 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	^all the more reason to FIDLAR every night __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

08-16-2014, 10:33 PM	#75 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	what does a soul feel like?

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~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	yea.

08-16-2014, 11:20 PM	#80 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	i don't want to die either, but it is what it is. you gain nothing by dwelling on it. tbh i had that sort of crisis when i was about 19 or so. eventually i just stopped caring about it all that much. there was no reasoning or rationale to this change of heart really. you just get used to an idea and then grow to accept it over time. you get a pretty good run out of life if you are born under the right circumstances, which almost everyone here with net access most certainly was. so quit whining about death. the universe doesn't owe you ****.