(December 22, 2010 at 12:56 pm)ldarwin Wrote: Why, all of sudden, do we go somewhere when we die?My theory on why people think this is because it is physically (and I guess mentally) impossible to think/imagine what it would be like to not exist. We can visualize what it was not to exist before we existed, but now that we do exist, it is impossible to think what not existing is like after we go.
It's like trying to think about not thinking. It just doesn't work. Common sense tells us that an afterlife is possible, which is why common sense is often very very wrong.
