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Atheists: how do you deal with your own mortality? [Spirituality & Religion]

I am atheist and I cannot bring myself to believe in an afterlife.. so I'm really freaked out by my own mortality and how after I die I will simply cease to be. These thoughts torment me and I want to find solace in an afterlife, but sadly all religions are wrong.
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okaybut · 56-60, M
Google...Pantheism.
Cervix · 22-25, M
No Panentheism is better
okaybut · 56-60, M
@OpenSource: Hmmm...cool! :)
okaybut · 56-60, M
@OpenSource: But I see the universe as god.
okaybut · 56-60, M
The theory implies that death simply does not exist. It is an illusion which arises in the minds of people. It exists because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking that their consciousness will disappear too. In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. That fits well with the basic postulates of quantum mechanics, according to which a certain particle can be present anywhere and an event can happen in several, sometimes countless, ways.
JazzMan · 31-35, M
Hmm.. just googled it.. I think I might be a pantheist. I have frequently thought before that the closest thing to a god I could think of is nature itself... as nature i.e. the universe is really the true creator of all life. I won't worship the universe, and I don't see it as a benevolent force, in some ways it is, but in many ways it isn't.
okaybut · 56-60, M
@JazzMan: From your response...You are a Panthiest. :)