Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Happy now? Here's to the atheist's search for meaning.?

"Still more depressingly, perhaps, other atheists sought to extinguish the fear of annihilation by stressing the generally miserable nature of human existence and thus encouraging detachment from life and even hopeful anticipation of death as a long awaited rest from the burden of living. Nicolas de Chamfort (1741-1794), for example, described life as an illness, for which death was the 'medication'." From the website Investigating Atheism, hosted by Cambridge University

13 Answers

Relevance
  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Believers love to tell lies about our supposed misery. I guess it makes them feel better about their own choices.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    No, I am going to have the rest of forever to be dead, but only one lifetime to be alive. I am going to make the most of my life and handle what comes to me and be a better person. Death will come as a natural part of that, I accept that but I am not going to waste my life either worrying or hoping for it.

  • 9 years ago

    Yes, as atheist or agnostic, there are no uplifting answers on this subject and highlights how religion is the "easy way out" of thinking about the suffering in life.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I'm not on any "search for meaning."

    So your premise is flawed.

    I also have no "fear of annihilation."

    Why is it that you guys love to quote people from the 1700's? You know, we've learned a lot since then...

    Peace.

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 9 years ago

    -They seem to be theologians and religious psychologists in the main. One of them is being funded by the Templeton Foundation.-

    -Marvellous. A project run by the faculty of Divinity. They're probably just trying to use the current popularity of atheist literature to raise their profile a bit. Essentially a bunch of well dressed fleas with html skills.-

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Whats a religious persons goal in life. To be with their god/gods or creator aka DEATH.

    I find meaning in my own life and the patheticness of lives like yours. Im sure you have a rope in your garage, use it.

  • 9 years ago

    Wow. I must be doing it wrong. I don't find life miserable at all. In fact the only real annoyance is noisy, hypocritical Christians.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Nothing better to do than more atheist bashing on the internet. eh?

    Source(s): -atheist ex xian
  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    From the frying pan into the fire. Whew! Now I can rest.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    so you spend you life hoping for death? LOL

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.