(June 8, 2011 at 12:17 am)Cinjin Cain Wrote:(June 7, 2011 at 11:33 pm)Eternity Wrote: For atheist and non-afterlife believers alike. How did you come to the terms that death is truly the end all of all? Did you take it lightly? Hard? If you came from a religion to atheism how did feel when you knew that when you die it would be the END?
As a person who believes in a afterlife I can't seem to wrap my head around this idea. Maybe some atheist here can enlighten me on the subject?
It was soooo easy to accept when I realized the answer was found in another question: Why would I want to live forever in heaven???
Really, have you ever really thought about what it would be like to live FOREVER! I don't care how big your heaven is or how many relatives you truly love or how much gold you walk round on. Worshiping jesus for an eternity in between having coffee with my family members sounds like the most horrible thing in existence. 100 Trillion years of spending time with my wife and my dad and whoever ... only to realize that that time period was like one second of eternity. You can have it.
Deist view: Whatever my God has in store for my "soul/life essence/energy", whether it be the grave or otherwise, is fine by me.
Have you ever heard of the Idea that everything in heaven would be like that first time you saw something amazing. Only that you relive that feeling over and over again. I fine it funny that you can come to grips with being nothing for a eternity and not being with God for eternity. Who would really trade the latter for the first?
Also heaven is beyond your imagination. It isn't like the world where you play a game and after while you get bored. There is no boredom. Therefore you wouldn't have anything to worry about.
And in heaven is your Sustenance, as (also) that which ye are promised - Surah Adh-Dhariyat
