Question for Atheists

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Actually it's the most fufilling answer - doing the will of the creator, knowing that you'll be with him for eternity. I see that as much less depressing than living life trying to please myself and never being able to accomplish that. Then I fade away and die with no memory of what I've been able to accomplish. You can't even enjoy the memories of your life here.
By the way, I refer to God as "he" because the writers of the bible referred to him in the masculine gender. He/She has no gender, but is spirit.

I'm just going to say this, and walk away: eternity, by definition, is enough time for you to grow completely sick of god's company, to grow to hate him, and then to become so utterly bored that you long for your death, his death, or ideally, both.

That's the end result of all this. You'll just go on and on until you've experienced everything enough times to grow so bored of it all that reality itself becomes a Groundhog Day style torture.

Your afterlife (doesn't, ever) end with you endlessly contemplating suicide.

I 've experienced the same thoughts. How could anybody stand to live forever? It sounds very scary. Actually, I think most people have the wrong notion of the afterlife. According to scripture, we will be physically resurrected on the last day. We will have physical bodies and will eat and drink and all that stuff - the bible speaks of the great feast. The bible also says that after the resurrection we will live on the "new earth", possibly a recreation od Eden. So I imagine we'll probably have jobs to do and so on and need an abode of some kind. Though worship of God will be the biggest thing, our existence will be physical. As far as the"eternal" part goes, we probably won't exist in time and will be living in the moment and will have no thought as of the length of time. Nothing says we will know everything God knows and we'll probably continually be learning. Before you go off on this because of preconceived notions of the afterlife, the latter part of this post contains my personal idea of possible senarios, but the parts about the physical body, the new earth and the feast are in the bible.