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How Did We All Get Here?
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Eeplord
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Well, I like to think that their is an afterlife. When I think that this is all we have and there is nothing afterwords, I start to get a little freaked out and I think, "What's the point in going to school, starting a family, helping others?". I know you could say the same things about an afterlife: why bother doing all that stuff if you are just going to go somewhere else anyway? But I just feel a little safer believing in life after life. Sure, there is no way to know, but that just means I have choice between believing or not, so I choose believing.
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RichardT
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The answers should be intuitively obvious. What would be the purpose of going to school, starting a family and helping others if there were an afterlife? Either way it is impossible to objectively apply meaning to any of these events. You create meaning for these events in your mind. Surely these are all things that you yourself want to do, or else you shouldn't be doing them.
Right.
Having a feeling about something is certainly not the same thing as working from first principles and determining for yourself the probability of such a belief to be likely. The question isn't about whether there is a way to know, it's about the fact that there is absolutely no evidence for the existence of an afterlife. You can choose to believe in an afterlife all you want but it doesn't change the fact that your belief is as likely as the existence of trolls.
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If any human behavior, emotion, or psychological characteristic can be shown not to be derived from the brain. A mechanism can later be derived for what happens to your "self" after death and by what matter these characteristics actually come from.
For the moment, the conclusion is that your self is the matter within your brain and once the circuit within your brain dies, your self dies.
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Doesn't really answer the question, evidence of what nature is admissible?
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its easy for me to accept, but its very hard to imagine a world with out the self. my best guess is its like being asleep without dreaming until the end of time.
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There is a lot that goes on in the tiny mind of a pigeon.
When it dies, that stops, and there isnt any more.
Such an odd conceit that people are different. special in some supernatural way.
When it dies, that stops, and there isnt any more.
Such an odd conceit that people are different. special in some supernatural way.
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If when you get older you should be unfortunate and get Alzheimer's disease, where will your God go?
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Nowhere --- He will go through it with us.
Hebrews 13:5 said:
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Asking is one thing --- demanding is another.
If you truly asked, then you would accept a 'no' answer.
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