According to a certain theist, "life wouldn't be worth living without god, and you'd have nothing to look forward to". Does this claim in any way resemble the truth?
Hm, as for me.. wait I'm agnostic.. anyway.. some atheist are looking forward for a solid proof of GOD's existence.. Until then.. "TO SEE IS TO BELIEVE" is still in effect.
I am looking forward to many things. In the immediate future, I am looking forward to my lunch. I am looking forward to my trip to Rome, I am looking forward to my son graduating from University, I am looking forward to......... etc. etc. etc.
I feel sorry for people who are looking forward to dying because of a mythical "heaven". I enjoy the here and now and the here and what is to come in my life.
Like every other animal on Earth, we live our life because we are here.
Nature has provided us with a strong aversion to dying and it is not related to a belief in an afterlife.
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What a dumb question. As an atheist I look forward to every new day. Every day is special to me and I live to it's fullest. I look forward to the time when my life expires also because by then I would of had enough of life on earth. I will die knowing I have achieved all I set out to do and I will be very very happy.
I consider myself lucky and excited at the way my personal and professional life has turned out. And the future is full of hope. I Analise problems and take whatever action is needed to avoid difficulties to me and my family, and to help others. And I look forward to the remainder of a happy life.
Most, if not all, of us have the resources within our brains to cope with problems, and hope is the behavior that drives us to work towards a good result, though not of course a guarantee; we evolved that way, and that's where encouragement, confidence, happiness and hope come from. Some project these resources onto a mythical deity or spirit; but it's us that are doing the coping really, not any outside agency.
That theist was a mentally challenged chap. Don't you think/
I look forward to life, friends and really good food/drink.
If it resembled the truth, life wouldn't be much worth living. And given that thought, I guess you theist's need some myth to believe in to make life worth living. What a joke that has been player upon thou.
In the short term, I'm looking forward to my beloveds return from his trip - I won't see him until next Monday and I miss him fiercely. In the long term...well, I'm too insatiably curious about how it all turns out to want to leave this life yet.
I would hate to feel that this life is some kind of waiting room or application process for something else, and the prospect of missing the marvels of this life because my eyes were focused on some illusory "next life" seems wasteful and silly to me.
My response to that theist's claim is nothing but pity and derision.
I had the same feeling when I was a theist. My life was based off of three rules
1. Don't turn away from God
2. Don't commit suicide
3. Make up the rest as you go
The first two rules always seemed to lean on each other. Then my pastor gave us all the challenge one day that we should all "Lean on God so much, that if he isn't real we would fall over." So I did so, and all was fair and dandy for about a few months until I "fell over" Life all of a sudden didn't have any meaning but I carried on hoping that something would come up. It did.
What this certain theist said is true for many Christians however. That is why I am against fully reconverting a society. Some people have built their entire lives around the gamble that God is real and if they ever found out that he wasn't then they would commit suicide instantly.
As one of my fundamentally Christians once told me about a time that he was depressed from too much medication "If I had been an atheist, I would have jumped out my four-story window." For that reason, I refuse to debate him any time he comes around with new "proof" of God.
In short, it is noble to put all your eggs in one basket, just make sure that the basket is real before you do
Atheists, what are you looking forward to?
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