What exactly is "nothing" and why do atheists say you "go back to nothing" when you die? As if this even resolves the death issue. As if this even resolves what may lie forward inside death's door as it frankly closes behind the living, who are oblivious to that realm? Does "nothing" actually satisfy the natural process? Or is this more of an Ockham's Razor for atheists?
Well, since you return to where you came from when you die, "Nothing" seems to pretty well sum it up.
>>25547381An atheist would probably argue that death is the end of consciousness, which has some kind of start (birth or conception or whatever) and an end (death). Before your birth, you had no consciousness. After your death, you will again have none. But if you ask me I reckon there's some kind of soul involved in the miracle of life.
>>25547381>What exactly is "nothing"It's exactly what it says. Trying to give it a form, whether abstract or otherwise, means attributing something to nothing. Someone might argue that describing "nothing" in language gives it some shape we picture when we think of it, but that's not true. Plenty of abstract terms in everyday language require you to translate them into your own preconceived ideas before you understand them at all (google "first-degree words in writing").
