It is my understanding that an atheist dose not think there is any kind of afterlife. When the body dies it is game over, no consciousness, no sense what so ever that you or anything existed or even doesn't exist true "nothingness". This leads me in thought that nothing matters in the end, and I don't mean just my personal end. All of human existence, in fact if astrophysics is correct, the entire universe will cease to exist. So, all that we humans accomplish will eventually vanish to this "nothingness" even if we happen to exist as a species to witness this ultimate demise. Nihilism is the only conclusion that can be made from this path of logic, to me. Granted that is a very long way off in the future, if a rogue asteroid or deadly virus doesn't wipe us all out tomorrow. Where am I wrong, if at all, in this way of thinking. How do you who are true atheists reconcile this within yourselves without becoming a nihilist? I personally am an agnostic so at this point I just don't know. I hope there is more to this existence than this, that we are somehow more then the sum of our parts. But, no consciousness has come back from the other side to tell me different, and even if they did I might think I was just going crazy.
Thanks
Mal
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Mal
