Let me begin by stating that it is not my intent to limit or prohibit anyone's privilege to

[Jirel]

63. Some of those questions? Nope.

I don't get to speak for "all self-respecting atheists." I get to speak for myself and the atheists I know.

"How did I get here?" Covered by science. Can look it up in a science book.

"Why am I here?" Nope, usually not. This is a question that has never crossed my mind, nor the minds of many atheists I know. The question itself is something of an absurdity, and requires the assumption that there is some deity out there that has a reason for why a person is here.

"What is real besides me?" Also, generally nope. I'm here. I'm therefore real. The things I interact with are as real as I am. Any attempt to qualify "real" as something else is just fairly silly mental gymnastics to redefine "real."

"Will I really die?" Nope. The people I know without religious indoctrination pretty much remember that moment they were introduced to the concept of death. As soon as we got our heads around the definition and stopped panicking, the only thing we were thinking was "Oh, CRAP."

"What, if anything, exists beyond death?" Mostly, that question came up during the traumatic childhood incident of learning the concept of death, and trying to wrap the brain around the end of existence. Asking that question is just one of the stages of grief.

"How and why does everything work?" Absolutely all the time. Which is why we have SCIENCE.