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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If there were an afterlife, Isaac Asimov would have written a book about it by now.

Boru

[emmasheba]

I think most feel it's going to be EXACTLY like pre-life.

Mark Twain said it best -

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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Maybe because so many things in nature seem so very impossible. I don't know....

Right.... tell me one thing that seems very impossible?

I guess I used the wrong language...I should have said beyond human understanding....

[Alex K]

I guess I used the wrong language...I should have said beyond human understanding....

Well, it's very simple for things to go beyond human understanding - we're smart, but our limitations are very visible. So that's really not a good reason to jump all the way to supernatural conclusions.

[LostLocke]

Anyway the question I have is this. Afterlife. Do atheist believe in an afterlife? thanks

In general no. However there's nothing preventing an atheist from believing that. It's 'possible' there is an afterlife but yet still no gods or deities.

I guess I used the wrong language...I should have said beyond human understanding....

There are things that were beyond human understanding in the past, but today are common knowledge. There are some things today that are beyond "some" human's understanding, but are understood by others. The relativity of time is one that comes to mind.

[dyresand]

Hi, I am pretty new to all this so please be patient. I do not follow any religion but I do find that I believe in a creator. Maybe because so many things in nature seem so very impossible. I don't know....
Anyway the question I have is this. Afterlife. Do atheist believe in an afterlife? thanks

i don't believe in a after life but i am open to it being the Buddhist after life or one you can be recycled and given a new body. also nature can be explained through science and not through magic that's my world view anyways.
anyways welcome to the forums.

[Mental Outlaw]

Hi, I am pretty new to all this so please be patient. I do not follow any religion but I do find that I believe in a creator. Maybe because so many things in nature seem so very impossible. I don't know....
Anyway the question I have is this. Afterlife. Do atheist believe in an afterlife? thanks

Some atheist do believe in an afterlife, but I think that most do not. I myself have pondered the idea of reincarnation before because I've had some very distinct dreams of experiences that happened long ago, and I've looked at certain historical landmarks and felt like I've been there before, but I defiantly do not believe in any hell or heaven.

[JesusHChrist]

I guess I used the wrong language...I should have said beyond human understanding....

Look up logical fallacies - argument from ignorance. For all you or anyone else knows "beyond" is a temporary condition. Just as the mysteries of lightning, bacteria and Kanye West were beyond the understanding of the ancients. Now we know lightning is static discharge, bacteria are little bitty singled celled critters and Kanye West is a complete and utter ass who makes unintelligible noises he rashly calls "music". And his wife is a Hobbit no less. A Hobbit!

And welcome to the forum. Beware of some of the less tame members; they bite! Hard!

[Whateverist]

No one would be more surprised than me to waken after death and find my memories and thought processes going on in a disembodied way or perhaps in a different body altogether. That would be weird and unexpected. No weirder than becoming sapient curdled milk but at least that weird. Lets just say I'm making no plans which revolve around the possibility. I can't prove it won't happen but it is no concern of mine. (I'd just be pissed if I awoke as one of the living dead chasing down the living to feed on their brains.)

[Brakeman]

Hi, I am pretty new to all this so please be patient. I do not follow any religion but I do find that I believe in a creator. Maybe because so many things in nature seem so very impossible. I don't know....
Anyway the question I have is this. Afterlife. Do atheist believe in an afterlife? thanks

Afterlife? Since you're old enough to post this question on a forum, we can safely assume you are over the seven year life span of the original group of cells that made up your body when you were born. That "you" is already dead.
We are a massively multicellular organism that is constantly dying all over the place, why postulate that only the last die-off group gets a trip to the afterlife?

You claim that there are seemingly impossible things that cause you to believe in a creator. Please name some of these.

It is curious that the people that actually study science for a living are completely unconvinced of the creator that you think you see.

[Dystopia]