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[fakeitormakeit]

Thank you all posters for helping me understand "the other person".

[Nadril]

1. Little bit of a trick question. Where did a god come from? Point is, something always had to have existed. In the 'big bangs' case or theory it was the start. There are a few scientific theorys out there right now, and really knowing something like the start of the universe still is out of our reach.

 

 

 

2. You die. Thats it, your brain stops functioning.

 

 

 

3. Because I don't want to suffer the consequences? Because I was built up by my family to do the right thing, even if it didn't suffer a consequence or I wouldn't get caught? You don't need religion to teach morals.

[Bubsa]

1. People who believe in the Big Bang, according to your beliefs where does it come from?

 

 

 

If I knew that, you'd all worship me.

 

 

 

2. People who don't believe in an afterlife, what do you believe what happens to you?

 

 

 

Again, I don't know, but it's gonna be a laugh finding out. I'm expecting a "Woah, really?! Controversial!" kind of vibe.

 

 

 

3. If you don't believe in an afterlife or a divine being, what is your encouragement to do the right thing if you don't believe you are punished in an afterlife(and if its because you fear the law then please don't post that reason)?

 

 

 

Believe it or not, acting on good will can occur purely for the benefit of someone else.

[Lionheart_0]

1. I believe that anti-matter were created out of nothing. When anti-matter is made, there is always mater that accompanies it. Thus, Matter just pooped out of nowhere. Two pieces of matter just happened to come together, and boom, we have the big bang.

 

 

 

2. When I die, my body will be just carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and anything other thing that happens to be in my body. All the chemical energy will return to the earth. As stated by the law of conservation, no energy can be created or destroyed, thus the electrical energy in my brain will disperse into the world, and will find a way to be a part of something. (or in another theory, will become a ghost of my memories.)

 

 

 

3. I am motivated to do what I do because I want to. There is no other reason.

[tripsis]

1. Similar to what Nadril said, where did God come from? Or was he just always sitting up there in Heaven? I think it's a pretty well known fact that things emerge and evolve overtime. Whether that's God or nature's doing, I don't know and I'm not going to make assumptions - just live with what I do know.

 

 

 

2. Again, I don't like making assumptions about things that nobody knows anything about. From what I've seen, people always feel like they have to be certain about life and all its contents. It's like there are two sides to life nowadays - the belief in gods and atheism - whoever turns out right in the end wins! I mean come on, why can't we just wait and see?

 

 

 

3. Because for a lack of a better phrase, it's the right thing to do. If I walked around being a jerk or killing hundreds of people or whatever, I doubt that I'd be happy. I'm sure tons of people would hate me and I'd hate myself for being such a jerk. I was just brought up that way and I believe that everyone should hold a certain amount of common courtesy.

[Rebdragon]

I'm not really qualified to answer this. Hypothetically, as a physicist I would say I prefer the Cyclic Universe theory, and as a philosopher I'd go with the agnostic opinion of "it is outside of our limits of available knowledge to ever come close to understanding what it was like before time began".

 

 

 

Our conciousness ends when we die. Simple. We're animals, and we die in the same way that others think animals die- with nothing beyond that.

 

 

 

Guess my sig choice today was a funny coincedence. I personally don't need religion to actually do the right thing (isn't doing the right thing and getting the great feeling from it it's own reward o_O?), but plenty of people do.

 

 

 

I don't need some stupid motivator like a fictional Heaven or a man-made Hell to know what the right thing is to do, and to do it. That shouldn't, and better as heck not, surprise anyone.

[Giordano]

1. People who believe in the Big Bang, according to your beliefs where does it come from?

 

Ethier the creator, heat and pressure released all the matter, or a elf blew it up. The possiblities are endless...

 

 

 

2. People who don't believe in an afterlife, what do you believe what happens to you?

 

You just lay there like a brick. Nothingness...then again you could become into a ghost or go to heaven. The possiblities are endless...

 

 

 

3. If you don't believe in an afterlife or a divine being, what is your encouragement to do the right thing if you don't believe you are punished in an afterlife.

 

Jail, people not respecting you, and parents and thier belts. :uhh:

[speedofsound]

1. People who believe in the Big Bang, according to your beliefs where does it come from?

 

 

 

A singularity.

[warri0r45]

Before you read on please, please, please don't start arguing and saying whats right and what's not, I am simply asking because I am curious, even if I don't believe something, I like to hear both sides of the story.

 

 

 

I have 3 questions.

 

 

 

1. People who believe in the Big Bang, according to your beliefs where does it come from?

 

 

 

2. People who don't believe in an afterlife, what do you believe what happens to you?

 

 

 

3. If you don't believe in an afterlife or a divine being, what is your encouragement to do the right thing if you don't believe you are punished in an afterlife(and if its because you fear the law then please don't post that reason)? Btw, I'm not saying people don't do good things just because they're good, I just want to see if there is any other reasons.

 

 

 

Thank you to all who answered.

 

 

 

1) A chocolate teddy bear. But seriously, I don't know.

 

 

 

2) We are devoured by decomposers. As for an afterlife we all go to heaven where beer volcanos and stripper factories are everywhere. But seriously, I don't know.

 

 

 

3) An innate biological altruism.

[Kashi]

1. Well, I've always said (and I think I actually read it somewhere and picked it up)

 

that if you take your kids to church, they'll learn just enough about religion to

 

mock it for the rest of their lives. I don't know how the universe started, but

 

if we look at the past couple hundred thousand years, the theory of evolution is

 

clearly more than a theory. Evolution isn't a theory, it's an absolute, incontrovertible

 

fact. You can't see evolution in man, because our lifespan is so long (at least compared

 

to many animals), and of course, we can't see the changes because we're experiencing them.

 

But with organisms who are born and reproduce in very short amounts of time (bacteria,

 

basically) evolution can be recorded and measured. Like the fact that certain strains

 

of disease become immune to anti-biotics, not because the individual germs build

 

an immunity, but because a small percentage of the bacteria have a gene which makes

 

them immune to those anti-biotics, and they pass on that gene when they reproduce.

 

 

 

I know this question was about The Big Bang, but that and evolution go hand in hand.

 

And anyway, it's a hell of alot more plausible than the idea that God created all

 

living things exactly as they are in present day.

 

 

 

 

 

2. The idea of an afterlife is a natural process of man's mind. To put it like this ...

 

 

 

You have never been dead, therefore you cannot comprehend what it would be like

 

to be dead. It is outside the range of your experiences, so it is natural for

 

you to imagine a life after the one you have now. Faced with death as an inevitability,

 

and the unknown, the unknowable idea of being dead, you imagine a new life after

 

this one. Some religions (Christians, Muslims) teach that the life after will be a Paradise,

 

or possible a burning pit filled with unimaginable horrors ... either one's good I guess.

 

Others (Buddhism, Hinduism) teach Reincarnation. But the basic thought

 

is still the same; life after death.

 

 

 

This is not a bad way of thinking, or even one that is very hard to understand. If

 

the promise of another life is what it takes people to get through this one, then it does

 

its job by providing hope and whatnot, I suppose.

 

 

 

 

 

3. What prevents me from doing bad things? (Change the emphasis of the question, what

 

I mean to say is, "Who says I don't do bad things?")

[zaquierming]

1. I don't know how you expect anyone here to answer this.

 

 

 

2. Nothing.

 

 

 

3. Well, as mentioned I don't believe in an after life so thus, this being the only life, the consequences would be a waste of said life.

[Screechingmu]

1. I belive it comes from a single point where the universe first "expanded" from since the term bang is actually inaccurate. This point being indeffinatly small was suddenly triggered and rapidly expanded creating the universe. (That was what i learned in history class, missing a few important parts, and it is what I believe.)

 

 

 

2. You simply do not exist anymore. You can't think, you are nothing.

 

 

 

3. I do the right thing in order to recieve good graces and encoragments from my fellow peirs.

 

 

 

Sorry if my thoughts are a little scrambled, im tired :S.

[zaquierming]

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