Aren't you afraid to die?

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Chanileslie said:
Yeah! Get to it! You have a quota to fill of raping, looting, pillaging and killing! I expect it done before supper! :D
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Wasn't that the Mighty Fwaawrr?

If you've heard thunder, you know Thor exists. Simple as that. There can be no other explanation.:) :)

Thor lived on baked beans, don't you know?
 
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The Mighty Thor said:
Wasn't that the Mighty Fwaawrr?

If you've heard thunder, you know Thor exists. Simple as that. There can be no other explanation.:) :)

Thor lived on baked beans, don't you know?
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well, now I feel like a freak for liking that "after a storm" smell...
 
richardm said:
If anyone should be terrified of death, it should be the likes of 1inChrist.

They believe in all the hellfire malarky, and also in a vengeful God. If they put one foot wrong, it's straight off to the flaming brimstone.

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OTOH, I always figured that considering all the great work I've done for Satan over my life (apparently), that even if I do got to hell, he'll give me a pretty cushy position.

If you read the bible, it's clear that Satan is a pretty rational guy. He can be reasoned with (unlike God, of course, who puts the hammer down).

Not that I believe in either, but even if I'm wrong, it doesn't bother me all that much.
 
Originally posted by 1inChrist
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I wasn't sure which category I belonged in until I read the questions, but now I assume I'm in the second category.

First off, I remain confused about the semantics surrounding atheism. I've always called myself an agnostic, but I've seen definitions of atheist that define me pretty well. Anyway, to your questions:
Aren't you scared to die if you believe there is nothing afterwards?
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Yes.
Do you know how lonely it would be to not be alive or to not be feeling anything?
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I don't think it would be lonely; I don't think it would be anything. Thinking about it can give me a lonely feeling though.
 
1inC, about your line, "What lies? There are no lies. God does not lie."

That is just the standard line of true-believer BS, and it has a dual nature; it annoys me, yet I find it entertaining to listen to airheads make such claims.

God does not need to lie, he, she, or it IS A LIE, and Christianity, along with its parent Judaism, and its progeny Islam, together account for the single greatest disaster ever perpetrated on humanity. I say again, god is a lie, and dunderheads fall for it.

I hate to quote a former Pro Wrestler, but he was a Navy Seal so that balances the books, but Jesse Ventura said, "Religion is a crutch for inferior minds." What a statement! What a man!

Ventura for president!!!!
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CSSMariner said:
....Jesse Ventura said, "Religion is a crutch for inferior minds." What a statement! What a man!

Ventura for president!!!!
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To be precise, the quote refers to organized religion, and was made during the course of a conversation discussing televangelists. So, more accurately, he was only dismissing ultra-right, in-your-face, sock-it-to-the-sheeple evangelism: "[organized] religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers."

To which I add: Ventura for president!!!!

:)
 
Anathema said:
To be precise, the quote refers to organized religion, and was made during the course of a conversation discussing televangelists. So, more accurately, he was only dismissing ultra-right, in-your-face, sock-it-to-the-sheeple evangelism: "[organized] religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers."

To which I add: Ventura for president!!!!

:)
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Thanks for the correction, the old memory is slipping more and more. I do remember his reference being to "organized" religion.

Ventura for President!

Does that count as three votes?:D
 
To quote Epicurus:

Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If death is, I am not.
Why should I fear something that cannot exist if I do?
 
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1inChrist said:
Explain Hellish OBE's.
Explain Hellish NDE's.
Explain city workers working down in sewers hearing screams.
Explain the atheist doctor who was terrified when his patients would be revived screaming ''I'm in HELL!!!!''
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How old are you? Only a child would believe such idiocy.
 
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plindboe said:
How old are you? Only a child would believe such idiocy.
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And such a confused, frightened child, too. Sad, but disconcerting nonetheless.
 
Originally posted by 1inChrist
Explain Hellish OBE's.
Explain Hellish NDE's.
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The military got exactly the same results when subjecting soldiers to centerfuge testing. Soldiers who experienced NDE's and OBE's weren't even dead at the time, they were just unconscious. In otherwords, your explanation is dreams. People have nightmares all the time, and when there is a severe enough lack of oxygen in the brain, it automatically shuts down higher functions entering a sleeplike state inducing dreams. Hellish NDE's and OB's are in no way outside the scope of the human imagination. As Emily Dickenson once wrote, "the mind is wider than the sky."
 
Am I afraid to die?
I have been waiting for two years for someone to ask me this question.
According to 1inChrist's original post, there are two places for an Atheist to go after death--Hell, or oblivion. I do not believe in Hell--as a reasoning almost-adult, I cannot believe in Hell, or Satan, or even God. But I wish with all my heart that I could.
Burning in a lake of fire? Being driven for mile after mile by demons with barbed scourges? Drowning in a river of excrement again and again for all eternity? Big freaking deal.
Pain is nothing. After a century or three, you get used to pain. Or better yet, you go mad from agony and the pain doesn't really bother you that much. You know what scares me?
Nothing.
I am afraid of nothing. Of seeing nothing... of feeling nothing... of being nothing. That is my one, terrible fear--that one day, I shall cease to exist.
Think about it for a minute. No, I won't care when it happens--I won't be able to. I won't be able to move. I won't be able to think. I won't even have the luxury of going mad, because I won't have a mind to lose.
Ceasing to exist--that is the one thing in all of reality that terrifies me more than I can even begin to describe. And that is also exactly what will happen to me when I die.
I've always had a keener sense of my own mortality than most people my age--even as a God-slave, I never really accepted the idea of an afterlife. Right now I'm taking Driver's Ed, and it's been a shock to see how lightly my classmates take the subject. Most likely they've never taken the time to think about what it's like to die--if they did, I'm certain they wouldn't laugh quite so loudly at the videos of car crashes our teacher shows us... but I digress.
The point, 1inChrist, is that I am indeed afraid to die--but if I allow fear to rule my life, I am no different from a spineless God-slave like you.
 
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varwoche said:
1st, I gave you the courtesy of a sincere reply. Bump, in case you overlooked.
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1st, what am I to do? You, a self-professed Christian, are presumably here to save me. I share with you my innermost thoughts in response to your questionaire, yet you ignore me. The despair this causes me is pulling me further towards the dark side. Why would you do this to me? I teeter on the precipice. I am barely able to resist the urge to go slaughter a goat and/or a rooster.
 
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