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Hmm. I guess I'm not explaining it well. If you're an atheist, then you must belive that on the day you die whether it's tomorrow or fifty years from now.......... nothing.......forever.

All of the good things you did, all of the people you love, all the things you care about, everything that matters most to you.....from your point of view will cease to exist. Doesn't that haunt you? I think it would for me if I was an atheist.

Hmm. I guess I'm not explaining it well. If you're an atheist, then you must belive that on the day you die whether it's tomorrow or fifty years from now.......... nothing.......forever.

All of the good things you did, all of the people you love, all the things you care about, everything that matters most to you.....from your point of view will cease to exist. Doesn't that haunt you? I think it would for me if I was an atheist.

It seems to me the three biggest questions/mysteries in life are how did we get here, why are we here, and what happens when we're gone.

I understand that for some people, religion offers great solace in "answering" (or diverting) these questions. For me personally, I don't think anyone has the answers - they are unknown (so I'm not an atheist, but agnostic).

I'm fine with the realization that I don't know. I hope there's an afterlife where I get to see old friends, relatives & pets yet the logical part of me asks why I should believe for a second that such a place exists?

All of the good things you did, all of the people you love, all the things you care about, everything that matters most to you.....from your point of view will cease to exist

More accurately, it will be my point of view that ceases to exist.

Doesn't that haunt you?

No, because I don't dwell on such matters. Given that I have a finite period of time before I won't be experiencing anything, I strive to make my experiences as pleasant and enjoyable as possible. Yes, my life is a series of events up to my death, so I concentrate on enjoying those events rather than worrying about how it will end.

I think it would for me if I was an atheist.

Perhaps it is because you aren't used to thinking of your consciousness as something temporary and fleeting.

All of the good things you did, all of the people you love, all the things you care about, everything that matters most to you.....from your point of view will cease to exist. Doesn't that haunt you? I think it would for me if I was an atheist.

You might explain what is going to have to be done to my 'soul' when I get to heaven that will allow me to 'be happy' while I watch or think about my fellow man and loved ones suffering 'back on earth'.

If you extract those concerns and loves from me, such a soul is no longer 'me' but a frightening generic thing, and to claim that this is what souls truly are is to claim that all the "me's" on earth are an illusion, a game, a vanity and a cruel hoax.

"Haunting" indeed is the perfect word for such a belief system.