why do atheists choose to live?

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Tethered

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jimmydiggs said:
That's a little delusional, don't you think?

I choose my truth, and this is a Giraffe.

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No.
The truth I choose is not a claim about the reality around me, it is a claim about myself.
You value a relationship with God. Even if God is not what you thought him to be, your belief that you valued it is still true.
 
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atheists keep the children of God on their toes with arguments lol
 
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teuful_hunden said:
if you are merely the sum of your memories and there is no afterlife and you simply cease to be then what is the point to living your life? When you die it might as well be as though you never lived right? so why even bother with dealing with it.
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There is no division, Jew or gentile, man or woman.
 
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^^ prime example of why love trumps knowledge and gets to continue through to the times when knowledge becomes obsolete to truth.
 
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teu_ful hunden, non-religious people enjoy life just as much as religious people do, it's just a different life approach. Despite the fact that I'm not religious, I love many people in this world, my friends, and family, and I have goals and hopes and dreams just the same as everyone else. I wish to make a positive impact in the world that I live in and look forward to each new experience as a one time opurtunity to have an adventure. The way I look at it is this is my one shot to be a part of this journey we call life :)
 
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jack4022 said:
teu_ful hunden, non-religious people enjoy life just as much as religious people do, it's just a different life approach. Despite the fact that I'm not religious, I love many people in this world, my friends, and family, and I have goals and hopes and dreams just the same as everyone else. I wish to make a positive impact in the world that I live in and look forward to each new experience as a one time opurtunity to have an adventure. The way I look at it is this is my one shot to be a part of this journey we call life :)
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I can tell you a secret.

'Religion' ... is pointless. Ritual is pointless. division is pointless.

Your attitude is refreshing -

The person of action, because religion takes up time that could be spent on love.

God loves a joyful giver. Never lose that energy
 
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Ecclesiastes just makes me think of people like you :)

'For it is just a chasing after the wind'.

the most depressing book, the most seemingly pointless book, with a truth that stares people right in the face. It's a book of joy.
 
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Religion is pointless indeed, that's why Christianity is about relationships, not religion.
 
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Reality said:
Watch the video first before you remark please. As long as you are happy then there is a point to life.

Why don't you ask why people of other faiths choose to live? According to your beliefs where do they end
up going after they die? What's the point in that?
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A point to life? This is hypocrisy. The big bang, billions of years of things just happening, and then the
atheist is born and thinks his/her life has a purpose??? No, their life is just a random cosmic act
with absolutely no meaning what so ever. Just a piece of space dust, stuck to a large rock, going around a star, that's going to burn up when that star explodes one day. A purpose?? Fuel for the
star? Their own outlook on how we got here says they have no purpose in life, but they feel they
have one. And yet, they'll claim there are hyopcrites in church. IMO, there are a lot more running
around, outside the church, than in it. A purpose for their life, means, a purpose for all creation,
a grand design, a Creator. I think they need to decide which side of the fence they want to stand.
 
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Trax said:
A point to life? This is hypocrisy. The big bang, billions of years of things just happening, and then the
atheist is born and thinks his/her life has a purpose??? No, their life is just a random cosmic act
with absolutely no meaning what so ever. Just a piece of space dust, stuck to a large rock, going around a star, that's going to burn up when that star explodes one day. A purpose?? Fuel for the
star? Their own outlook on how we got here says they have no purpose in life, but they feel they
have one. And yet, they'll claim there are hyopcrites in church. IMO, there are a lot more running
around, outside the church, than in it. A purpose for their life, means, a purpose for all creation,
a grand design, a Creator. I think they need to decide which side of the fence they want to stand.
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Your post reminded me of this:

You may be a fundamentalist atheist if...
 
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I think everyones life has a purpose.

Space dust formed into crazy life! Full of love, and hate, and energy and sorrow and pain and joy and everything that makes it so brilliantly pointless.

Can see God at the end going 'well son, what did you think? How would you like to see the REAL thing?'
 
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Trax said:
Their own outlook on how we got here says they have no purpose in life"
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Your right, how we got here doesn't provide us a purpose. I make my own purpose in life.
What you call hypocrisy, I understand as you not being able to differentiate between a creators purpose for you and the purpose you give yourself... because to you they are one and the same.
 
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Mediate said:
I think everyones life has a purpose.

Space dust formed into crazy life! Full of love, and hate, and energy and sorrow and pain and joy and everything that makes it so brilliantly pointless.

Can see God at the end going 'well son, what did you think? How would you like to see the REAL thing?'
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Revelation 20

11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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teuful_hunden said:
It's still pointless. it doesn't matter if you live in the moment or think of later in the end if their is only oblivion after your death then there is no real point to even living your life
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One who lives in the moment doesn't care about the past, so their memories don't mean much to them anyways. Also, if life is so pointless without an afterlife, then why do many who do not belive in the afterlife choose to live? I know this was ur original question, but I'm using it to prove my point.
 
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teuful_hunden said:
What is upsetting me is I dont understand their desire to live when there is nothing and no one can seem to give me a reason for why their life can possibly have meaning if all there is after their life is nothing
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A: not understanding something, especially something that doesn't effect u at all, shouldn't upset you.
B: I belive that the user reality is an atheist, ask/ listen to him, and don't argue with them about it, because that would be like me arguing with you why you like chocolate ice cream over rainbow sherbert(ill assume you do)
 
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RickyZ said:
Define what you mean by 'extinction event'.

For those who die without God then yes it would be better had they never been born than to spemd eternity in 'hell'. But those without God will never see that here and now because they assume life (progeny) goes on forever, and therefore will work towards improving mankinds lot here and now.

But I still can't help feeling there's a bigger issue being danced around here...
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My personal conditions have no bearing on the validity of my point. if you want to know what is going on my life then you can ask. I assure you that what I'm going through and the question have very little to do with each other.
 
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