To atheists, what happens after you die.

You go to Hell. Doesn't even matter if you found the cure for AIDS, Cancer, or saved hundreds of lives. You go to Hell.

Rikusaki

I'm not atheist but...you know the "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred" scientific law? I think the energy from our formerly alive bodies just transfers somewhere else. I'm still contemplating it

You're just gone.

[QUOTE="pspdseagle"]Just die, simple. Exactly like when I didn't exist before we grow in the womb.Rutzfuz

Not meant to generalize nor offend TC, but asking most (or some, a percentage of) aetheists this question on an internet forum is like asking a stand-up comedian the very same question during their set. Basically, it'll be mostly sarcastic jokes with no benefitial core debate whatsoever.

I've asked a couple of my aethiest friends about this question in person, and when they get really honest about it they say something along the lines of "I really dunno, life just moves on and we're left behind, re-incarnated, whatever. I live for the moment, I don't think about the after-life nor do I willingly talk about it".

P.S. I'm Muslim.

My body will begin to decompose in a coffin buried 6ft under and my relatives and friends will mourn my lose (I hope :?). But for me? Nothing will happen. I'll be dead.

Some cheesy 5 second tune will play and I will begin at the start of the level again. Stupid Thwomps keep squishing me.

No one can ultimately know. What matters is the here and now.

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]

[QUOTE="x8VXU6"]your right my body will decompose but my sprite will move on

x8VXU6

I guess god diden't save you from that typo

What spirit?

I'm not atheist but...you know the "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred" scientific law? I think the energy from our formerly alive bodies just transfers somewhere else. I'm still contemplating it

garathe_den

That doesn't necessarily mean that "you" will continue to exist as you do now, though.

I don't think we even begin to understand what consciousness is, or what it even means to be alive in the conscious, sentient sense such that the whole of our being is greater than the sum of the individual cells that make up our bodies. Nor do we really even understand existence itself, as the very existence of order in our universe would seem to challenge the second law of thermodynamics, held up by science to be the most inviolable law there is (and rightly so, if one truly understands where it comes from). As such, I feel that we are quite simply unable to even speculate on what exists after death. I don't think that those who boldly proclaim that there is nothing as though that were a verified fact are as justified in saying so as they think, but at the same time I don't think there's any real guarantee we can have that there exists an afterlife as we understand the term (i.e., the continuation of our conscious existence today after our physical bodies cease functioning).

That doesn't necessarily mean that "you" will continue to exist as you do now, though.GabuEx