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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 11:28 am
[Image: icon_quote.jpg]Susan Ertz:
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. 
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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 12:16 pm (This post was last modified: April 7, 2019 at 12:16 pm by Alan V.)
I wouldn't mind being a ghost haunting the Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Cool
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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 2:44 pm
I suppose I could spend a few extra thousand years improving my clarinet skills and jamming with deceased greats... Eternity, though? No, it doesn't appeal to me.
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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 2:48 pm
Don't wanna end up like Tithonus.  Nothx.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 3:13 pm
Personally I can’t think of anything worse. Most seem to want one though in my experience.
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#16
RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 3:19 pm
(April 7, 2019 at 12:16 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: I wouldn't mind being a ghost haunting the Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Cool

I'd probably end up as a hostile spirit or poltergeist haunting somewhere random and scaring the shit out of ghost hunters.

Wouldn't that be fun?

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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 3:24 pm
Quote:Just wondering, do Atheists like the idea of the afterlife? Do they wish that there was one? Or would they rather have eternal oblivion after death? This is not a troll question.
Nope lingering forever is stupid when you die it should be a true ending with true resolution to all things .
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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 3:25 pm
(April 7, 2019 at 3:19 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(April 7, 2019 at 12:16 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: I wouldn't mind being a ghost haunting the Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Cool

I'd probably end up as a hostile spirit or poltergeist haunting somewhere random and scaring the shit out of ghost hunters.

Wouldn't that be fun?
A funnier thing would be to haunt the corrupt politicians!
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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 3:54 pm
(April 7, 2019 at 3:25 pm)Smaug Wrote:
(April 7, 2019 at 3:19 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I'd probably end up as a hostile spirit or poltergeist haunting somewhere random and scaring the shit out of ghost hunters.

Wouldn't that be fun?
A funnier thing would be to haunt the corrupt politicians!

There aren't enough angry spirits for that.

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RE: desire for afterlife
April 7, 2019 at 3:55 pm
(April 7, 2019 at 9:03 am)joe90 Wrote: Just wondering, do Atheists like the idea of the afterlife? Do they wish that there was one? Or would they rather have eternal oblivion after death? This is not a troll question.

I guess it would depend on the version of an afterlife.

As long as I could choose when it ended, there were always new activities to learn, new placed to explore, new things to learn, etc, I might be ok with it.

All of the afterlives as described in any religious text (Quran, Bible, Book of Mormon, Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, etc) are horrible sounding to me. I would definitely choose death over any of them.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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