(January 29, 2016 at 9:42 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: I agree. Instinctive is the key word. We all want to avoid pain, and with death there will be pain no matter what. No one really knows exactly what will happen, no matter what anyone says or thinks. Some think nothing will happen and it will just be the end of thinking and consciousness.
No one may really know but nothing points to conclusion that there is something at all after death. Apart religious fairy tales that is.
(January 29, 2016 at 9:42 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: We are all humans, even Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists all have an idea or faith in what they think will happen, but who really knows, that's what makes it scary.
Scary? Not for everyone I suppose.
(January 29, 2016 at 9:42 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: The closer you are to death, the more real it becomes. Why would an atheist who believes nothing will happen be afraid to die? Even they would fear the unknown, or not being able to be in this existence.
Death is real everyday, though indeed it's something rather abstract. But one could die everyday, as for example car accidents aren't exactly uncommon.
As for atheist being afraid - I'm an atheist and I see no reason for fear. I didn't exist for million of years and after this brief interlude I will not exist for millions of year to come, nothing to be afraid of, just reason to make good use of life.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
