RE: Atheism the unscientific believe.
August 2, 2015 at 5:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2015 at 5:17 pm by Excited Penguin.)
Look, you have a point maybe, but you're using the wrong word for it. What exactly do you mean by consciousness? I dare you define that in such a way that it actually makes sense and relates to the physical world we (can) experience - not there is any other world.
Your feelings, your particular human feelings die with you, or rather, they die with your brain. You won't feel after you're dead and disintegrating because there will be nothing to feel with. The organism that lets you experience this Universe won't be there anymore. But you will live on, in some sense anyway, if you choose to call it that - your atoms will still be a part of this Universe. It's just that they'll cease to make up a living being --you.
There's nothing more to it. You're just confused and stuck in various philosophical wonderings because of a failure of a linguistical nature. Theists tend to add non-existing meanings to words. I think you know very well that this is so. This is not bad in and of itself, not necessarily, we can choose to use language however we want and creativity and ingenuiness in doing so is much appreciated most of the times, just one thing though - you have to be able to distinguish between set, given meanings of words and ideas and your own personalized usage of them. This is paramount for a proper discussion held among peers and for your own better understanding of concepts as well.
Your feelings, your particular human feelings die with you, or rather, they die with your brain. You won't feel after you're dead and disintegrating because there will be nothing to feel with. The organism that lets you experience this Universe won't be there anymore. But you will live on, in some sense anyway, if you choose to call it that - your atoms will still be a part of this Universe. It's just that they'll cease to make up a living being --you.
There's nothing more to it. You're just confused and stuck in various philosophical wonderings because of a failure of a linguistical nature. Theists tend to add non-existing meanings to words. I think you know very well that this is so. This is not bad in and of itself, not necessarily, we can choose to use language however we want and creativity and ingenuiness in doing so is much appreciated most of the times, just one thing though - you have to be able to distinguish between set, given meanings of words and ideas and your own personalized usage of them. This is paramount for a proper discussion held among peers and for your own better understanding of concepts as well.
