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Atheists & Agnostics

mitch96

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1. "death is nonexistence like before you were born. "

Reply to Towlie (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 05:04 PM

Dec 2020

Great article and a long read.. For me we were, am and will always be stardust... Fortunate to have a consciousness sandwiched between the before and after...

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New York Times opinion article, "What is Death?" [View all] Towlie Dec 2020 OP

"death is nonexistence like before you were born. " mitch96 Dec 2020 #1

Saw a great answer to the question "Aren't you afraid you'll burn in hell?" A HERETIC I AM Dec 2020 #3

From experience... there is no nonexistence except before soul creation and we all existed before Karadeniz Dec 2020 #2

There is no such thing as a "soul". Towlie Dec 2020 #4

That's strange... I've seen mine and sent my mind elsewhere. Just the once. If it weren't for that Karadeniz Dec 2020 #5

Religion doesn't thrive because death is hard to understand, but because it's hard to accept. enki23 Dec 2020 #6

Fear of death is an evolved instinct that's inevitable, considering how natural selection works. Towlie Dec 2020 #7

I have had people visit me after they died and as an demigoddess Feb 2021 #8

All I can hope for is a nice brain death that gives me one helluva good dream nt RFCalifornia Oct 2021 #9