The afterlife does not exist

[kbate]

You keep telling yourself that and eventually there will be at least one person that thinks so.

And DAMN proud of it.

Rosco once called me the ruling class' nightmare, working class educated. I rather liked that.

You, Rosco and me are probably the only 3 who would understand it was a bon mot and not a typo.

 

[The_Trouvere]

The fact that you're able to post suggests otherwise.

 

[Sean]

You, Rosco and me are probably the only 3 who would understand it was a bon mot and not a typo.

Surely one would have to expand that trio to include snakeater10mm?

 

[Byron In Exile]

`I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Lol...

 

[ivantheterrible]

you still haven't answered my question mike.
there is more to reality than equations.

 

[kbate]

you still haven't answered my question mike.
there is more to reality than equations.

The reason your question cannot be answered is because you used petitio principii.

If you ask a question without trying to prove your own question within the question, perhaps someone may take a stab at it.

 

[Mike_Yates]

There is absolutely NO scientific evidence to point out that consciousness survives physical death or that we ever get to live again.

 

[Leslie22]

Religion is nothing more than a tool for societal control and a bi-product of human nature.

Theological beliefs about an afterlife and spiritual realm are bogus and scientifically false.

I don't think you know what "scientifically false" is, since theological beliefs about the afterlife aren't scientifically false at all.

 

[parodyluvr75]

YES! 1 internet for you sir.

Also I'm more of the spiritual type. Astrial planes and such.

Remy

Not a sir, but whatevs.

Your spirituality bans correct spelling on Mondays? Mine is like that on Tuesdays.

 

[Mephistopheles7]

There is absolutely NO scientific evidence to point out that consciousness survives physical death or that we ever get to live again.

While I agree with this and what you have said already, I have to add that belief in a soul negates any argument based on science. If you believe in the supernatural already; god, miracles, souls etc, than life after death doesn't require, nor is affected by, a scientific basis. I agree that consciousness is the result of many electrochemical interactions, shaped by a random set of experiences understood by unique sensory equipment and interpreted by incredible neural processes. Once you die the balance crumbles and fades. But if you are religious then your 'self' is supernatural and your body natural, so the death of the later doesn't carry over to the former.

Any argument you can't win.

Frankly, I just don't care what happens when I die. Life is here now already, I best live it!

 

[remy_lebeau8]

Not a sir, but whatevs.

Your spirituality bans correct spelling on Mondays? Mine is like that on Tuesdays.

My apologies ma'am. Actually my spirituality bans proper grammar and spelling outright. Every so often I can sneak it by though.

What's amazing is I aced all my writing and English classes.

Weird eh

Remy

 

[parodyluvr75]

It's the internets, I could be just a parrot with a good vocabulary.



It happens, more often than you think, it's only English after all.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

It's the internets, I could be just a parrot with a good vocabulary.



It happens, more often than you think, it's only English after all.

Very true.

On a side note, I bet mikey here has a vast collection of tin foil headgear.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Who doesn't? Tinfoil prevents aliens from reading your mind and it shines.

 

[EMPRESSLAINIE]

Having died and returned and having two friends who also died and returned, and reading of the thousands of others who did, I don't believe, I KNOW life goes on, better than here, too. Nobody ever wants to come back unless its for kids or some other loved ones.

And I may be dying again in a few days from my pacemaker replacement surgery since I don't like what the dr wants to do, placing it under the muscle instead of in the skin pocket where the first two have been.

Oh goodness, I forgot to mention, RELIGION has nothing to do with it, and "salvation" is pure BS.

 

[crazychemgirl]

energy cannot be created nor destroyed... it has to go somewhere.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Having died and returned and having two friends who also died and returned, and reading of the thousands of others who did, I don't believe, I KNOW life goes on, better than here, too. Nobody ever wants to come back unless its for kids or some other loved ones.

And I may be dying again in a few days from my pacemaker replacement surgery since I don't like what the dr wants to do, placing it under the muscle instead of in the skin pocket where the first two have been.

Oh goodness, I forgot to mention, RELIGION has nothing to do with it, and "salvation" is pure BS.

Exactly, you got a preview of death.

Nothing....

 

[cum2ut]

Exactly, you got a preview of death.

Nothing....

So when someone has a near death experience, such as that person, that's just a preview of death? So if that's just the preview, what happens when you actually die? Sorry, science proves nothing about life after death. I fully believe there is, because I know there are family members watching out for me. I can hear them or smell things that remind me of them consrantly. For instance, I was driving from Urah to Indiana a couple years ago. It was late & I was literally the only one on this road. I guess I kind of drifted, not asleep, but what you do when your mind just kind of blanks out. All of a sudden, I smelled cherry pipe tobacco, like my grandfather smoked. It was so strong, it was like he was smoking it right next to me. It snapped me out of whatever, just in time to miss a deer that jumped out in front of me. My car smelled like tobacco for the rest of my trip. I don't smoke, no one is allowed to smoke in my car, & I don't know how you would scientifically prove that wasn't my grandpa watching over me.

 

[EMPRESSLAINIE]

Well Mike, believe what you want to, but you have no more proof there is no life after death than anyone has that there is life after death. Of course we must completely discount the weird tape recordings that have been picked up in graveyards, and other electronically supposed voices of the dead.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Hundreds of thousands of cardiac arrest victims claim that they have absolutely no recollection of what occurred during the time that their heart was stopped and before they were revived by physicians.

Some of them were dead for several minutes. The brain can survive for about 4-5 minutes without oxygen until brain death sets in.

I am assuming that this is exactly what death is like, forever!

 

[phrodeau]

The same people who hunt for scientific evidence to support their belief that "life begins at conception" also willfully ignore all of the evidence that life ends at death.

 

[Sean]

It comes to something when Yates is one of the least delusional people in a thread.

 

[Mike_Yates]

There is NO scientific evidence to support the notion that consciousness surviving physical death. The afterlife does not exist outside of theological myth and wishful thinking.

 

[kbate]

There is absolutely NO scientific evidence to point out that consciousness survives physical death or that we ever get to live again.

argumentum ad ignorantiam

 

[ryan8558]

Your theory is interesting. It is also impossible to prove or disprove (at this time). I happen to believe you are correct but I also plan to hedge my bets by repenting and confessing my sins 3 minutes before I die.

Not being disrespectful, but do you think 3 minutes is long enough to confess all your sins?