Flat Earth

[Subduction Zone]

Lets you accept the truth…


Of Buddhism, for example

How would you know that? One can come to any belief through faith.

 

[JohnEmmett]

How would you know that?

Experience

 

[atpollard]

I've always wondered what difference it makes. Because I don't really care if the Earth is flat or round. Outside of proving "they LIED to us!", I don't see how it matters any.

That's because you never had a family member attempt to traverse the globe pole to pole and fall off the edge ... never to be seen again.

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[Subduction Zone]

Experience

Sorry, that sounds like confirmation bias. People have a tendency to believe what they want to believe. One reason that the sciences are so successful in solving problems is that they have found ways to deal with that tendency. The sciences are evidence based. Not feeling based. One has to be willing to put one's beliefs to the test. If one cannot think of a possible test to refute one's ideas one is not using the scientific method. One cannot even have evidence for one's beliefs if one is not willing to test them.

That is why the Flat Earth woo woo fails so badly. Every Flat Earthers that I know of is deathly afraid of testing their ideas properly. There is no Flat Earth model. At best they will have a series of self contradicting ad hoc explanations.

 

[JohnEmmett]

not using the scientific method.

science is not concerned about the afterlife


hence it cannot help you prepare for the afterlife

 

[dlamberth]

science is not concerned about the afterlife


hence it cannot help you prepare for the afterlife

I honestly don't believe that religion can either. And I'm a Love of God saying that.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I honestly don't believe that religion can either.

you are prepared if you accept there is an afterlife


~

 

[Subduction Zone]

science is not concerned about the afterlife


hence it cannot help you prepare for the afterlife

Why even think that there is an afterlife? It sounds like something that you merely wish was true.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Why even think that there is an afterlife?

our life is like a lightning flash in the sky


hence it is very shallow to think of this only

 

[Tinker Grey]

And I'm a Love of God

I don't know what that means. Denomination? Religion?

 

[Subduction Zone]

our life is like a lightning flash in the sky


hence it is very shallow to think of this only

It is very shallow to play make believe games. If your beliefs have some validity why can't you support them at all? If anything your sort of approach is an argument against religious beliefs.

 

[JohnEmmett]

It is very shallow to play make believe games. If your beliefs have some validity why can't you support them at all? If anything your sort of approach is an argument against religious beliefs.

my comments are basic and simple, matter of fact

 

[dlamberth]

you are prepared if you accept there is an afterlife


~

It's about having God as one's reality, NOW, where He is needed the most.
Any afterlife beliefs are just that...a bunch of beliefs!

 

[JohnEmmett]

Any afterlife beliefs are just that...a bunch of beliefs!

you realize behavior will matter in the afterlife


you may not realize beliefs matter

 

[Subduction Zone]

my comments are basic and simple, matter of fact

That does not make them true.

 

[JohnEmmett]

That does not make them true.

time will continue after you die hence there is an after


there is no evidence of annihilation

 

[JohnEmmett]

evidence of afterlife…

https://www.christianforums.com/threads/she-died-met-god.8229978/

 

[Subduction Zone]

time will continue after you die hence there is an after


there is no evidence of annihilation

There is an "after" that does not mean that there is an "afterlife".

 

[JohnEmmett]

There is an "after" that does not mean that there is an "afterlife".

there is no reason to think there is annihilation

 

[Subduction Zone]

there is no reason to think there is annihilation

Sure there is. The evidence out there indicates that thought is a complex chemical reaction. No more complex chemical reactions means no more thought.