Meaning of life with dfeo: Do you believe in some sort of Deity / God / Afterlife?

Commotion Ocean · 10-01-2017 01:27AM #1

Sorry if this is too heavy for AH. If I posted this in Christianity or Islam etc or Atheism and Agnosticism it'd be a very biased thread. So I thought I'd scoppe out the demographics of boards.ie here and get a wide sweep of the whole community.

Our national census says something like 80-something percent are "Catholic", but I'd say all that means is that they were baptised and never go to Mass from one end of the year to the other.

Personally, I don't believe in a God or Afterlife or Deity at all.

I'm just posting this in response to someone in the 10PM rule thread saying that the Good Friday rule exists because we are a Catholic country with 80-something percent adherence.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 10-01-2017 01:32AM

IM NOT sure id describe myself as religious but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that I believe there's a heaven where everyone you miss and love go, family, dogs, pets, friends. Everyone who took a little piece of you when they went. And when you die, all these pieces will fit back together and you won't be broken anymore and you'll be happy and content forever with the people/animals that made your life good.

I don't care if it's made up and not true, I'll find out when I'm dead. But for now, I'm alive, and if believing something like this makes something hurt a little less then where's the harm?

I never understood why anyone would feel the need to take a crap all over someone else's comfort, or ridicule them, as long as nobody was being hurt.

The Backwards Man · 10-01-2017 01:38AM

Don't believe in life after death, but if there is a heaven I'll not be protesting outside the gates on point of principle

endacl · 10-01-2017 01:39AM

I believe in an afterlife, and I'm in it. Those who have died aren't. When I die, I won't be in it any more.

midnight city · 10-01-2017 01:42AM

I don't know what happens after death. I'm open minded on it.

Tigger · 10-01-2017 01:42AM

i voted with the groupthink cos thys howytou do theses things
how can anybody honestly believe in a desert god that was made up by people that lived a thousnd years before the inventon of sewers
seriously they wwere grasping at straws they didnt have a clue what was going on

i always feel like the kid who's brother told him that santa is a lie and thinks the other kids are stupid , but its grown ups that have heard of science.
people 2000 years ago : put them on a train they will freak out , tell them its ok and put them on a helicopter watch them go mad.

Tigger · 10-01-2017 01:42AM

endacl wrote: »

I believe in an afterlife, and I'm in it. Those who have died aren't. When I die, I won't be in it any more.

lol what?

Tigger · 10-01-2017 01:44AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

IM NOT sure id describe myself as religious but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that I believe there's a heaven where everyone you miss and love go, family, dogs, pets, friends. Everyone who took a little piece of you when they went. And when you die, all these pieces will fit back together and you won't be broken anymore and you'll be happy and content forever with the people/animals that made your life good.

I don't care if it's made up and not true, I'll find out when I'm dead. But for now, I'm alive, and if believing something like this makes something hurt a little less then where's the harm?

I never understood why anyone would feel the need to take a crap all over someone else's comfort, or ridicule them, as long as nobody was being hurt.

people are being hurt
every day
people are being hurt , also in most christian religions dogs don't go to heaven

s15r330 · 10-01-2017 01:44AM

I don't believe in a God / Deity / Afterlife

Not religious but I refuse to believe we are just a bunch of electrical impulses.
I believe there is something after, what that something is, I don't know.
But I simply don't believe what we are and all that is a person simply disappears into nothingness.

Tigger · 10-01-2017 01:46AM

s15r330 wrote: »

Not religious but I refuse to believe we are just a bunch of electrical impulses.
I believe there is something after, what that something is, I don't know.
But I simply don't believe what we are and all that is a person simply disappears into nothingness.

why

10-01-2017 01:48AM

Tigger wrote: »

why

It's a comfort to believe in something greater than ourselves. I don't believe in God or an afterlife but I wish I did.

s15r330 · 10-01-2017 01:49AM

I don't believe in a God / Deity / Afterlife

Tigger wrote: »

why

Just something I feel, can't explain exactly why.
I just think there is too much there to just disappear.
Experiences and emotions and feelings etc can't be just neurons firing off each other.
I suppose the idea of a soul comes into play.
But no one can be certain either way, if someone is 100% one way or the other with no evidence then they're silly.

10-01-2017 01:50AM

dont believe in a deity nor an afterlife nor a non physical soul

dont find that this hampers my ability to live a generally happy life tbh

Tigger · 10-01-2017 01:51AM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's a comfort to believe in something greater than ourselves. I don't believe in God or an afterlife but I wish I did.

i'm sure it would be lovley

Thor used to be a god to scandi peoples
now hes a superhero in the films
how long betwen people thinking he was a god and people tinking he is yer man of home and away ?

bobbysands81 · 10-01-2017 01:54AM

There's absolutely no evidence of any type of "higher" being, after life etc...

It's all a result superstition, voodoo, fear of mortality etc...

Tigger · 10-01-2017 01:54AM

s15r330 wrote: »

Just something I feel, can't explain exactly why.
I just think there is too much there to just disappear.
Experiences and emotions and feelings etc can't be just neurons firing off each other.
I suppose the idea of a soul comes into play.
But no one can be certain either way, if someone is 100% one way or the other with no evidence then they're silly.

i understand the want to believe that all this can juste nd
but thats what death is
game over
believing in things for no other reason than a story you were told is silly
there is no incidence for the afterlife , why would you think it should exist, where is it
how does it run?

s15r330 · 10-01-2017 01:57AM

I don't believe in a God / Deity / Afterlife

Tigger wrote: »

i understand the ant to believe that all this can just nd
but thats what death is
game over
believing in things for no other reason than a story you were told is silly
there is no eveidence for the afterlife , why would you think it shouldmexist, whre is it
how does it run?

Where is your evidence that there isn"t one?
You seem to be confusing what i'm saying with religion and going to heaven etc. Not what i'm saying at all. I just think myself that the energy goes somewhere.
I don't know for certain, but neither do you.

10-01-2017 01:59AM

Tigger wrote: »

i'm sure it would be lovley

Thor used to be a god to scandi peoples
now hes a superhero in the films
how long betwen people thinking he was a god and people tinking he is yer man of home and away ?

Maybe peeeple tought he was a god when he was yer man in home and away
Trigger is jealous hes not a god too

:pac:

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:02AM

s15r330 wrote: »

Where is your evidence that there isn"t one?
You seem to be confusing what i'm saying with religion and going to heaven etc. Not what i'm saying at all. I just think myself that the energy goes somewhere.
I don't know for certain, but neither do you.

you think that the energy goes somewhere?
what energy? do you know about entropy?
i don't know for certain that beatram russel isn't flying arounf in a choclate teapot just off the moons of pluto but that dosent mean its likley
where is the battery that stores the energy of the dead?
where is the substrate that stores the personalities of the dead
the new afterlife is yer man taat invented pay pals' idea that we are all living in a supercomputer
i have no proof thta thats not true but i dont think its likley
at least he h2KK_kzrJPS8as a plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

midnight city · 10-01-2017 02:02AM

There is no reason to convince yourself that there is no possibility of an afterlife. What can be gained from becoming a confirmed atheist. I live out my life with the vague notion that maybe there is something but i won't know till i die. If there is something then fine, if there isn't i won't know because i'll be dead.

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:02AM

s15r330 wrote: »

Where is your evidence that there isn"t one?
You seem to be confusing what i'm saying with religion and going to heaven etc. Not what i'm saying at all. I just think myself that the energy goes somewhere.
I don't know for certain, but neither do you.

you think that the energy goes somewhere?
what energy? do you know about entropy?
i don't know for certain that beatram russel isn't flying arounf in a choclate teapot just off the moons of pluto but that dosent mean its likley
where is the battery that stores the energy of the dead?
where is the substrate that stores the personalities of the dead
the new afterlife is yer man taat invented pay pals' idea that we are all living in a supercomputer
i have no proof thta thats not true but i dont think its likley
at least he has a plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8

mzungu · 10-01-2017 02:03AM

Tigger wrote: »

people are being hurt
every day
people are being hurt , also in most christian religions dogs don't go to heaven

Neither do people from Cavan.

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:04AM

midnight city wrote: »

There is no reason to convince yourself that there is no possibility of an afterlife. What can be gained from becoming a confirmed atheist. I live out my life with the vague notion that maybe there is something but i won't know till i die. If there is something then fine, if there isn't i won't know because i'll be dead.

truth
what can be gained by living a ife dictated by fairy tales?

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:04AM

mzungu wrote: »

Neither do people from Cavan.

ok

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:05AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Maybe peeeple tought he was a god when he was yer man in home and away
Trigger is jealous hes not a god too

:pac:

Tigger is a Tigger
this is better

s15r330 · 10-01-2017 02:06AM

I don't believe in a God / Deity / Afterlife

Tigger wrote: »

you think that the energy goes somewhere?
what energy? do you know about entropy?
i don't know for certain that beatram russel isn't flying arounf in a choclate teapot just off the moons of pluto but that dosent mean its likley
where is the battery that stores the energy of the dead?
where is the substrate that stores the personalities of the dead
the new afterlife is yer man taat invented pay pals' idea that we are all living in a supercomputer
i have no proof thta thats not true but i dont think its likley
at least he has a plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8

Well a chocolate teapot wouldn't survive exiting our atmosphere so I can tell you that definitely isn't possible.
I don't understand your need to force your opinion on others.
I have already said I don't know for sure.
Can you tell me with 100% certainty that there isn't one? The answer is no, you can't.
The best anyone can say is they think one way or the other.

10-01-2017 02:07AM

midnight city wrote: »

There is no reason to convince yourself that there is no possibility of an afterlife. What can be gained from becoming a confirmed atheist. I live out my life with the vague notion that maybe there is something but i won't know till i die. If there is something then fine, if there isn't i won't know because i'll be dead.

the idea that one 'chooses' to be an atheist is one you might benefit from considering. or not.

midnight city · 10-01-2017 02:08AM

Tigger wrote: »

truth
what can be gained by living a ife dictated by fairy tales?

If it helps them through this often difficult life then let them at it so long as they aren't preaching it to everyone else.

I don't follow any organised religion, i rarely think about god or the afterlife. I'm agnostic. What i'm not is a confirmed atheist. I don't see the point in it. Science doesn't have all the answers yet not by a long shot.

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:10AM

s15r330 wrote: »

Well a chocolate teapot wouldn't survive exiting our atmosphere so I can tell you that definitely isn't possible.
I don't understand your need to force your opinion on others.
I have already said I don't know for sure.
Can you tell me with 100% certainty that there isn't one? The answer is no, you can't.
The best anyone can say is they think one way or the other.

i'm not forcing my opinion
i'm giving my opinion , i didnt start the tgread i gave my opinion to a question asking for my opinion

in my nopinion there is no afterlife, can't be unless its in a simulation like mr tesla says and i think he's a raving loon, a chocate teapot can exist outside our atmosphere btw what makes you think it cant?

Tigger · 10-01-2017 02:12AM

midnight city wrote: »

If it helps them through this often difficult life then let them at it so long as they aren't preaching it to everyone else.

I don't follow any organised religion, i rarely think about god or the afterlife. I'm agnostic. What i'm not is a confirmed atheist. I don't see the point in it. Science doesn't have all the answers yet not by a long shot.

the long black nothing is scary but thats not av reason to believe in childrens bedtime storys
ehats a cinfirmed athiest what does science not know that needs to be known . in times of making up the religions science didnt know where diesese came from

s15r330 · 10-01-2017 02:13AM

I don't believe in a God / Deity / Afterlife

Tigger wrote: »

i'm not forcing my opinion
i'm giving my opinion , i didnt start the tgread i gave my opinion to a question asking for my opinion

in my nopinion there is no afterlife, can't be unless its in a simulation like mr tesla says and i think he's a raving loon, a chocate teapot can exist outside our atmosphere btw what makes you think it cant?

Show me where I said it couldn't exist outside our atmosphere.

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