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How do atheists find contentment in not speculating about life after death?

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If someone is content to believe there is no life after death, and avoid speculating about it, then they, in my book, are taking a serious risk.

Is it just a placebo, or something that allows them to temporarily stave off having to worry about needing to give an account of their actions in this life?
 
Loulit01 said:
Opposite day again?

How can Christians find contentment knowing they may wind up in hell?
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Typically, if one is a Christian, they believe that they can be saved from hell by faith in Christ.

If one is an atheist, then they're content not knowing if they're going to hell, or simply finding ways to insist that there is no life after death, when they know they don't really know that.

And if an atheist wants to argue that their material body is all that exists, I can prove that to be false.
 
You don't know if you're going to Heaven or Hell either because it is mythology. We atheists don't need someone else to make our decisions in life. We are strong enough to make them on our own. And when we're gone, we're gone. What is important is that we leave a legacy that makes us live on. How many Bible-waving Christians are doing that?
 
noonereal said:
By accepting fact as a reality as we all will be forced to eventually.
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No, I would posit that the fact is that you will experience life after death, whether you want to or not.

So why you put off having to deal with this fact is beyond me.

 
Rambozo said:
Typically, if one is a Christian, they believe that they can be saved from hell by faith in Christ.

If one is an atheist, then they're content not knowing if they're going to hell, or simply finding ways to insist that there is no life after death, when they know they don't really know that.

And if an atheist wants to argue that their material body is all that exists, I can prove that to be false.
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There is nothing in the universe that has life after death. No plant, animal, planet, asteroid, star, nothing.

One must have a serious nasisistic disorder to belive they are they exception in a universe so large we can't even comprehend it.
 
Rambozo said:
No, I would posit that the fact is that you will experience life after death, whether you want to or not.

So why you put off having to deal with this fact is beyond me.

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Lol

Your oncologist suffers the same bias you and I do. You realize this, right?
 
Rambozo said:
If someone is content to believe there is no life after death, and avoid speculating about it, then they, in my book, are taking a serious risk.

Is it just a placebo, or something that allows them to temporarily stave off having to worry about needing to give an account of their actions in this life?
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It's simply a matter of accepting reality. Birth - Life - Death

"All that matters is HOW you live(d) your life." - Buddhist Monk
 
noonereal said:
Lol

Your oncologist suffers the same bias you and I do. You realize this, right?
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Bias? What bias?

The evidence I've seen is that the afterlife is proven fact. The only thing worth debating are the specifics.

So why are you content just putting off having to deal with this fact? Is it like getting drunk or high to escape reality?
 
Individual said:
It's simply a matter of accepting reality. Birth - Life - Death

"All that matters is HOW you live(d) your life." - Buddhist Monk
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I would argue that how you lived your life makes a difference in the afterlife, but that doesn't mean that one can't speculate about it.
 
Rambozo said:
Typically, if one is a Christian, they believe that they can be saved from hell by faith in Christ.

If one is an atheist, then they're content not knowing if they're going to hell, or simply finding ways to insist that there is no life after death, when they know they don't really know that.

And if an atheist wants to argue that their material body is all that exists, I can prove that to be false.
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It doesn't take just belief, according to the bible it takes works, meaning walk the walk and talk the talk.
 
Rambozo said:
No, I would posit that the fact is that you will experience life after death, whether you want to or not.

So why you put off having to deal with this fact is beyond me.

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How can you not understand how ridiculous this is.

I'll bet the Covid vaccine gave her a heart condition too.
 
noonereal said:
How can you not understand how ridiculous this is.

I'll bet the Covid vaccine gave her a heart condition too.
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It's just one of many evidences.

Just as how it's easy to prove that one is not their material body.

And yes, I'm sure someone "told you" that Covid vaccines aren't responsible for heart conditions, but, naturally, that doesn't make it true, epistemologically speaking. But that's a subject you seem to be unaware of.
 
Rambozo said:
I would argue that how you lived your life makes a difference in the afterlife, but that doesn't mean that one can't speculate about it.
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Without a belief in the existence of an afterlife there's not much to speculate about, other than those you leave behind.
 
noonereal said:
It is biased and antidotal. In other words ridiculous to submit that shit as s science.
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Science is irrelevant, and the fact that you would merely fall back on appealing to what "science says", rather than what's actually true, is rather pathetic.

What's actually true is completely independent of what you've been told and indoctrinated to believe is science.

Just as if you'd been born in the Middle Ages, you'd be believing that it was scientific fact that the earth is the center of the universe, regardless of whether or not it's actually true.

So your attempt to fall back on science or philosophical materialism because it offers you the convenience of not having to speculate about what's actually true, merely what you've been told or indoctrinated to believe is true, won't make a difference when you're forced to experience the afterlife for yourself.
 
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