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I'm afraid you're mistaken. Atheists simply don't believe in the existence of gods - Buddhism is atheist.
Positivism, on the other hand doesn't believe in gods, the supernatural, or souls - basically if you can't positively prove it is, it isn't.
I'm agnostic leaning towards atheism.
p.s. Happy Christmas everyone!
Meh whatever. I believe what I believe and do what I wanna do. Not everything has to have a name or a label
and then there'll be nothing, so it won't affect me..
or it'll be Heaven and everything'll be hunkydory..
or Hell, and people who are weaker than me'll have to manage it so I'm sure I'll be able to get over it.
I call myself Christian, but I have a bit of an issue with some of the things that kinda go with it..like this.
I don't really see much point in being scared, it's going to happen anyway.
As for what I believe happens... I believe I don't know.
In that case, are you just as afraid of Robin Stark?
I'm always intriqued by atheists who hope there is some kind of afterlife.
The universe and life come together after a series of chemical accidents and accidently builds somewhere else for us to go later ...an even better place.
I can't get my head round that one.
:chin:
Death is universally unknown. For all we know, it could be utterly horrific. So yeah, that scares me.
I'm not scared of ALL unknown things.
So many people 'know' what happens after death that he wouldn't exactly
be unusual.
:yes: Also the fact that thre could be something afterwards scares me - what if you do live forever, just in a different form? Forever is a long time. But then what if there's nothing? That scares me too because I can't get my head around nothing.
Hell?
The devil always has the best music.
According to my hugely Christian grandma, she is not who she appears to be but is work of the devil and my hubby can see her as he is not yet with God and it is the devil trying to get to him.
Stories I've heard from relatives who have attended spiritualist church also scare the hell out of me.
Am I scared of death? Yes, scared of how it will happen and the consequences. scared of what the f*** will happen to me afterwards. Something none of us will know until it happens!
However, my grandparents are over 90 and getting closer to death. They've had a full life and seen lots of grandchildren and great grandchildren born. My grandfather has started talking about death like the most natural thing and joked to me recently that he sure isn't going to be a sailor/captain in his next life like this one (he sailed in the second WW and had quite a few 'adventures'). I think that when the body starts failing it's easier to accept that your time is over and that this is the next natural progression, to die.
Something like that. The idea of a "void", nothing, or silence and loneliness is actually a bit scary.
Still seeing as I'm now more than halfway in my life expectancy I'll let you know when the day finally comes, okay? :thumb:
Then my dad died, and I was dissillusioned, because if there was any meaning or anything that meant anything, he would not have died then and there or whatever. But the truth is that things happen - good things, bad things - just because they do. There is no higher meaning or higher purpose or plan or anything like that.
So with that, I realised any one of us could die at any time. There was no karma that saved those who led virtuous lives and punished those who hurt others. It came down to random chance. A human life is only important because we believe it to be so. Our own life is only important because we believe it to be so.
And I still don't wish to die, I should get that much straight. I would live forever if I could - imagine the excitement of seeing a hundred different centuries as the world evolves and everything changes. But of death itself I'm not really scared anymore, because there is no purpose I am here to fill, it's just chance I'm here, and I could get struck by a car or a blackhole could suck the solar system out of existence, by random chance, and I would be dead. I don't 'fear' the day at which some horrible circumstances coalesce to stop oxygen going to my brain resulting in my 'conciousness' dying off.
After death, I think it is irrelevant, because we don't know, and we never can know, and so while it may make interesting pub discussion I don't think I should detract from my life worrying over it excessively, let alone fearing what comes after death.
Maybe that's all naive though. Just my perspective really.
Confront the fear it weakens right?
on the one hand feelings of utter satisfaction, complete sense of peace and wellbeing...
on the other hand it was rudely inturrupted by devilish, demonic and dark feelings of immense loss and iminent pain and suffering
so kind of a mixed bag for me but thats just me lol
Yes ofcourse ill fear death because i ve family..i ve look on them if im death who ll take care of them,,,...
I think the worst part of it is knowing you leave your family behind and all that.
But anyway, this is all very depressing. Don't think about dying, think about living!
What bothers me though is to die without making a significant contribution in improving this world, our society, to improve the lives of those who will be left behind, of those who will take over its management. But on this little mission of mine, it is lonely, thus sometimes I would contemplate whether if it is still worth carrying on living.