What death means for you: Basically it opens the possibility of taking away anything you want. If you want anything in life, death will be what prevents you from obtaining what you want. It's the reason we live for now and live so selfishly. If you had a lot of money and lived forever, you wouldn't mind donating to the people out there starving to death. You live forever so what does it matter? You're gonna get the money back eventually. Everyone would think like this because there's no desperation, and problems like this would cease to exist. Immortality brings you everything in life, instead we live for 80 or so years not knowing how to find that life satisfaction. EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE TAKEN FROM YOU BECAUSE YOU GROW OLD AND DIE.

What life means for this world: Suffering. Without life there would be no suffering. The moment life appeared on earth suffering was guaranteed. Suffering is simply a fact of life and anyone who gives life has caused suffering.

Why can't God get it right? How can you give people 30 years to live (in some places) and expect them not to be desperate? Either give us immortality or don't create life at all. The biggest joke is being given life just to be told it will be taken from you in a short time.

The learned scholar and the boatman. In Bengal there are many rivers, and so people generally transport by boat service. So a learned scholar from Calcutta was going home in the village on a boat, and he was very happy. So he was asking the boatman, "My dear boatman, do you know what are these stars, this astronomy, how they are working?" "No, sir, I do not know." "Oh, your life is twenty-five percent lost. You do not know anything." Then after some time, "You know the geology, how this earth, water, they are working?" "No, sir, I am poor man. What can I know?" "Oh, your fifty percent of your life is lost."

Then all of a sudden there was a cloud, black cloud on the sky, and there was storm. Then at that time the boatman asked, "Sir, do you know how to swim?" "No, I do not know." "Then one hundred percent you have lost. You are going to be drowned." The Boatman jumped and started swimming to shore.The Scholar drowned.

It seems that people say that the only thing Atheists believe is that there is no god.

But have they thought about that statement?

Yeah, randomness doesn't mean god exist. God is an invention of man to understand the world without questioning it. Even worst, some people really took advantage of your beliefs for making you do whatever they feel like. Science explain many things where religion just say because god did it. That's not an answer.

How come they only answered one of the many existentialist questions?

Do all atheists believe the soul exist?

I don't that's replacing god lie with a soul lie.

Do all atheists believe meaning exist?

Meaning of life? Life is meaningless in a scientific way, evolution doesn't care what is best for you, evolution isn't aware of what benefits you evolution just happens trough time, and we are a result of that.IN fact, the only thing evolution cares about if that's even "caring" worth is that you reproduce before you die. In a "human" way it changes for person to person, for me life is about enjoying the present and fulfilling your needs and desires (without hurting others).

Do all atheists have the same ethics?

No, the same that not all religious people have the same ones. Just because someone is a serial rapist means this person is an atheist, for all we know he/she is a devoted christian with a twisted sense of reality. Ethics are not a thing of religion is a set of acceptable norms that we have assume as normal.

In a godless universe, who has the authority to say what is right and wrong?

Society is the one that sets norms therefore society itself is which dictates what's right and what's wrong. In the past, God was a base for this set of norms nowadays it really varies from society to society even from town to town. What it's right in California isn't necessarily right in Kentucky :/

Is there no right and wrong?

Depends of where you live and the people that surround you. In the middle east is "right" and accepted to mutilate little girls something which is barbaric in the middle east. In any case, I like the western perception of right at the time being better than the one in the middle east. Having compassion for the suffering of others isn't a religion thing is a social phenomenon.

In conclusion, you don't have to base your beliefs in religion, there's always an explanation and I do not accept the one that says because god said so...even I don't know how this happen is better than because god said so. Curiosity makes us human in my opinion and limiting or knowledge to an invisible and unproven entity is out of question. Finally, atheism is just a particular perception, not because you are one it means that you are intelligent, it just means that you don't believe in something others do. There are plenty of religious people who believe because their parents believe it's not out of the question that it happens with atheists as well

I think we're open to that one. I'd say definitely anything with: DNA, an ability to intentionally communicate, or anything that can reproduce. We might even add in fossils of something with DNA, though some would argue with that one. But since we can't anticipate all potential life forms, I'd say we'd wing it if the time comes.