RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 27, 2016 at 12:30 pm
(September 27, 2016 at 12:16 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 27, 2016 at 11:19 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: So we can be completely unconscious when we're heavily sedated, but the idea that we're not conscious when we're dead is mere speculation?
yes.
Quote:And I've been both heavily sedated (sufficient to have my chest sawed open without me noticing) and asleep, so I'm in a position to know that sleep is far from the same thing. Neither is clinical death, for that matter.
as far as closing your eyes and experiencing 'nothingness', sleep and "sedation" are not far from the same thing.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sedation
Quote:sedation
NOUN
1[MASS NOUN] The action of administering a sedative drug to produce a state of calm or sleep.
(September 27, 2016 at 11:57 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Mine is based on scientific knowledge, yours on fiction.
Point me to this scientific knowledge that explains what happens after death.
I am merely talking about what we know about life and how it works. Consciousness is a property of a living things. Once your brain dies you can't experience anything - there's nothing to experience it with.
