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Afterlife Illogical?
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sometimes the 'present' truth is this easy: I don't know.
unfortunately, it's the hardest thing for people to admit sometimes  (July 19, 2013 at 2:33 pm)whateverist Wrote:(July 19, 2013 at 2:31 pm)orogenicman Wrote: There is an afterlife, but unfortunately it involves decomposition and a worm food fest. Indeed. But only if you pray over an alter of manure.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens "I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations". - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! " - Dr. Donald Prothero  Quote: First of all,I hope there is an afterlife I mean who wouldn't want an eternal play ground. Well..... Quote:When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. Or, check out Jim Jeffries. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Am2oXqP43o 
An afterlife requires the post mortem survival of identity. Since there is no evidence of dualism, this is not likely.
Time to grow up, folks.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.  RE: Afterlife Illogical?
July 19, 2013 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2013 at 3:29 pm by bladevalant546.)
Good answers, so what is the answer artificial immortality? Such as genetics, or cybernetics?
![[Image: grumpy-cat-and-jesus-meme-died-for-sins.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-_GaCN-f8ZFo%2FUNfmimTyf4I%2FAAAAAAAANmk%2FoakT_wL319U%2Fs1600%2Fgrumpy-cat-and-jesus-meme-died-for-sins.jpg) I would be a televangelist....but I have too much of a soul.
The answer is to except our mortality and make do with what time we have.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens "I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations". - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! " - Dr. Donald Prothero  One scenario is that we will learn how to digitize people, and once suitable bases are built, send people's information off to the four winds, to be multiply reincarnated on multiple suns. Or, when the singularity occurs, we will find it easier to move our minds into vast networks of computational devices, living and evolving as data. Or.... ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)
Or...
take a look at most people and decide if you really want them around "forever."  (July 18, 2013 at 10:17 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: I hope there is an afterlife I mean who wouldn't want an eternal play ground. Naw. I always found the idea of eternal life terrifying. Imagine that you've spent 100 trillion years wandering around the universe and you realize that you've explored the whole thing several times over. Imagine that you've spent 200 trillion years with your wife and children ... never to see them progress or even make a mistake or ever ask you for advice. Imagine you've spent 300 trillion years with your parents and your neighbors with nothing new to discuss and no hope of a surprise. Imagine finally that you you've now spent 600 trillion years in an unending afterlife and you realize that on an eternal scale, you've really only used up ONE SECOND of eternity. No thanks. Death gives life meaning and beauty. The most I would ever want out of an afterlife is reincarnation, so as to know that there is always an end game. ![[Image: Evolution.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk619%2Fjcincain%2FPublic%2FEvolution.png) |
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