Distantconstellation Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Why? When you are dead, thats it. You wont care, it will be like before u were born. You wont feel sad or anything u just wont exist, whats wrong with that?.. Nothing will matter at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Belief and/or comforting purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent W Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 To give life a meaning and have a purpose too. Nihilism is depressing and can provoke society to collapse. I personally believe in afterlife, we are conscious for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orsay Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I think it has to do less with fearing one’s own death and more dealing with/making sense of grief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarticle Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Why are you gay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueberries Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 did you die? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropez Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Because humanity is still simple minded. We are talking about the same humans who believe there are mysterious forces that dictate their life, that a celestial object has an influence on their personality, and that there’s karma. Humans are still largely primitive. The same way we see ancient humans as less advanced and superstitious, future humans will look at us the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obsession Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Coping mechanism for grief and death anxiety. As long as there is death, humans will always hold on to some sort of belief that life continues on in some form after death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breathe On Moi Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Being sure about the afterlife is just about as sure as knowing what is out there in the universe. Both sides have no ******* idea, so you can’t decide that for ppl tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetiesceline Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 and why not tho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subzero Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 To give them a sense of "purpose" and to cope with the fact they will cease to exist one day because without it some then think life is meaningless but imo as someone who doesnt believe in an afterlife, it makes life have even more meaning to accept this and realize it was all one happy accident for us to exist which makes making the best of the chances we have to experience whatever we can while here and being the only beings to uniquely do so (as far as we know) makes it that much more special. So, to me, it makes life so much more meaningful to take advantage of experiencing, exploring and learning what you can about the world while here because once your time is up, it's up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egon Schiele Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I mean, I've never been religious but I think there is something powerful about having faith in something, I kind of envy those who believe in a God who fills them with love and will save their souls, give them eternal life, etc Believing that you're somehow superior for embracing nothingness is just as dumb as letting church dictate your choices, imo, because you're idealizing your ego the same way they idealize priests/saints/gods. And there is no power in that, just plain old useless arrogance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanRickman1946 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Smarticle said: Why are you gay? Edited June 20, 2022 by AlanRickman1946 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanRickman1946 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 So you don't feel sad knowing you will never see your loved one again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Into The Void Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 No one needs to believe in anything, they choose too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Because the idea of nothingness for eternity can be scary to come to terms with. I know we all experienced it before being born but still… at least we eventually came into being. After death we will never come into being again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorjesspazze9 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Believe, Faith, and religion give people hope that there reality could be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent W Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 30 minutes ago, Egon Schiele said: Believing that you're somehow superior for embracing nothingness is just as dumb as letting church dictate your choices, imo, because you're idealizing your ego the same way they idealize priests/saints/gods. And there is no power in that, just plain old useless arrogance I’m not religious or anything, but the nihilistic/atheist crowd has become way more annoying and arrogant than religious people over the last few years. It’s ego on top of more ego, and makes the person insufferable sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrared Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I mean it’s still a terrifying concept - to exist and then not exist - leaving behind loved ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGKC Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Life will always go on but the pain and suffering will always be necessary, people like to think their life on earth will be rewarded as if life and death revolves around human emotions and perceptions, but those are just coping mechanisms to deal with grief. Whether life goes continues on or not is one thing (as in we’re all on an endless loop of experiencing conscious beings on a universal scale), but to think your soul transitions to a place full of nothing but beauty, peace and wonder is just an egotistical attachment to self and pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TROPICUM Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 To cope with a matter so unknown as it is death. Us as human will always try to choose the most positive view on anything for our own mental health. But honestly, if a religion changes a person into being their best self & to enjoy life to the fullest, that religion might be as real as anything in this universe. There's a lot of undiscovered territory in this universe and beyond. To make a statement that there's nothing after death, or simply that we are alone, when humanity is still so primitive and thus our knowledge is so minimal, could be very ignorant. Everything is a theory still, we have no way of knowing what happens next! Simply ceasing to exist can be our most logical answer, but our logic comes from very few years of our race being on this planet, hell, we're barely even crossing the threshold of becoming a "semi-modern society". Our generation will never know the answer, and probably neither the next one. So just live life! There are the same possibilities of there being nothing in death to a spiritual afterlife! TL;DR: Don't break your head over death. What happens, happens. Live your life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfish Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 3 hours ago, Distantconstellation said: When you are dead, thats it. You wont care, it will be like before u were born. You wont feel sad or anything u just wont exist Proof? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruel Summer Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I don’t think it’s entirely “coping” like some think - after all, we don’t actually know that it’s complete nothingness or whatever. We don’t know that “that’s it.” I don’t think that we’ll ever know that part with complete certainty. I think it comes from the fact that death, whatever comes with and after it, is impossible for us to completely understand, in the sense that life is the foundation of everything we experience. We have never personally perceived a moment or state of being that isn’t life - so how could we imagine something that is entirely unlike life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKW Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Because it helps them reconcile with the concept of death more and more importantly they’re allowed to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duybeeGAshantiGA Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Why do people NEED to not believe that there is after life after death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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