Because I like what the world has to offer.

You still haven't answered my question.

I'm afraid I did, it's not my fault if you don't like the answer.

So, this life is the only one you desire to experience?

What is the point of living if you are an atheist?
Because I like what the world has to offer.

Who's beating around the bush, maybe you should re-write your question, if you are looking for another kind of answer.

I don't think I can answer it any plainer.

Its a yes or no question.

Is this life the only life you desire to experience, Yasureoktoo?

No, this is another question entirely, but strawman nonetheless, my desires are not at issue. I could invent new lives and places in them, until the cows come home, but when the time comes I will have to face the same thing you do, regardless of what we pretend now.

So, you don't think God keeps records or knows or cares what man does in this life? You think the Hitler's' of the world, the murderers and sinners who could care less about God are "all destined to rejoin the creator and that is his will"? In other words according to you there are no consequences for unrepentant murderous acts?

Why would you not revere a God who promises life after death to those who abide in His will? Why do you think God should give life after death to those who have no regard whatsoever for His will?

From what you say apparently God is not concerned one bit with man's conduct and that's just an utterly absurd concept of God you espouse, asanb.

You have not the power to rise from the grave.

I don't think I can answer it any plainer.

You should try...again...to benefit his brain.

God isn't a person as you understand the meaning of the word but God is nevertheless a personality. Indeed, God "is" personality.

1:5.12 (29.2) In the contemplation of Deity, the concept of personality must be divested of the idea of corporeality. A material body is not indispensable to personality in either man or God. The corporeality error is shown in both extremes of human philosophy. In materialism, since man loses his body at death, he ceases to exist as a personality; in pantheism, since God has no body, he is not, therefore, a person. The superhuman type of progressing personality functions in a union of mind and spirit.

1:5.13 (29.3) Personality is not simply an attribute of God; it rather stands for the totality of the co-ordinated infinite nature and the unified divine will which is exhibited in eternity and universality of perfect expression. Personality, in the supreme sense, is the revelation of God to the universe of universes.

1:5.14 (29.4) God, being eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom. God does not acquire experience, as finite man might conjecture or comprehend, but he does, within the realms of his own eternal personality, enjoy those continuous expansions of self-realization which are in certain ways comparable to, and analogous with, the acquirement of new experience by the finite creatures of the evolutionary worlds.

1:5.15 (29.5) The absolute perfection of the infinite God would cause him to suffer the awful limitations of unqualified finality of perfectness were it not a fact that the Universal Father directly participates in the personality struggle of every imperfect soul in the wide universe who seeks, by divine aid, to ascend to the spiritually perfect worlds on high. This progressive experience of every spirit being and every mortal creature throughout the universe of universes is a part of the Father’s ever-expanding Deity-consciousness of the never-ending divine circle of ceaseless self-realization.

1:6.8 (30.7) God is spirit — spirit personality; man is also a spirit — potential spirit personality. Jesus of Nazareth attained the full realization of this potential of spirit personality in human experience; therefore his life of achieving the Father’s will becomes man’s most real and ideal revelation of the personality of God. Even though the personality of the Universal Father can be grasped only in actual religious experience, in Jesus’ earth life we are inspired by the perfect demonstration of such a realization and revelation of the personality of God in a truly human experience.

1:7.1 (31.1) When Jesus talked about “the living God,” he referred to a personal Deity — the Father in heaven. The concept of the personality of Deity facilitates fellowship; it favors intelligent worship; it promotes refreshing trustfulness. Interactions can be had between nonpersonal things, but not fellowship. The fellowship relation of father and son, as between God and man, cannot be enjoyed unless both are persons. Only personalities can commune with each other, albeit this personal communion may be greatly facilitated by the presence of just such an impersonal entity as the Thought Adjuster.

1:7.2 (31.2) Man does not achieve union with God as a drop of water might find unity with the ocean. Man attains divine union by progressive reciprocal spiritual communion, by personality intercourse with the personal God, by increasingly attaining the divine nature through wholehearted and intelligent conformity to the divine will. Such a sublime relationship can exist only between personalities.

It was a simple (albeit profound) straightforward yes or no question, duchessa, so why don't you answer it.

Is this life the only life you desire to experience?

Although I answered your questions few posts ago...I will do so...again.

Is not a matter of wishing (as in desire) but of what is real. If there is a life after death we will only find out after we croack...so, right now, i don'[ t have any interest in finding what happens "at the other side".

Now, darling, get lost and do something productive for mankind...

Honey bunch, don't even attempt to make your thread a popular one by resourcing to the same stupid answer. If you don't know how to read / lack reading comprehension...and you are 75 y/o...I suggest you rest your tongue / fingers and let those with a useful brain to do the work.

Hasta la vista, baby.

Coming back only to tell you that your question, indeed, is the stupidest one around...that you are so hungry for chit-chat that you keep repeating the same thing over and over and over. I will call you Eveready.

You wish to be an Atheist...and one like myself that's. Fortunately...for us...you don't qualify...your lack of ability to reason is irreversible.

No, your question in itself is evasive, what would a persons desire to experience have anything to do with this.

I could say, I wish to be reincarnated as my own son, so I can inherit my own lifes work.

I could say no, I'm glad it's over.

Both answers are opinion, nothing more.

You could posit any number of "options" but if they do not answer the question I asked they are superfluous and irrelevant.

Is this life the only life you desire to experience, Yes or No?