As long as we're meant to be triggered.... why not?
This is not a dogma, it is an observation.
Anecdotal tales of a few very select individuals (one!) who report (indirectly) on the afterlife provides us with no trustworthy reason to think that death is not the end of life.
Again, it is an observation.
Brain dead people are not conscious.
Some forms of brain damage also lead to non-consciousness.
Other forms of brain damage have consciousness altering features.
Brain chemistry alterations lead to alternative mind states.
Brain electromagnetism alterations lead to alternative mind states.
There are so many... so many links between the brain and our awareness, our thinking capabilities, our consciousnesses... that it seems ludicrous to deny that the brain generates our consciousness.
But... if you have an alternate version of the origin of consciousness, feel free to present your findings to the scientific community as a research paper and collect you Nobel Prize.
Most brains devoid of oxygen just stop working - a fade to black, like a dreamless sleep.
Some either during the oxygen deprivation state, or during the reoxygenation phase, or both phases, produce what have been called NDEs.
Why would the Universe not be able to run without a god?
Again, present your findings in the form of a research paper and collect your Nobel Prize!
Maybe it's just a list of claims that follow from the non-existence of any deity, given (and this is the important bit) that such existence hasn't been shown to be true.
Try to work the right way around these things.
(December 4, 2017 at 12:14 am)Little Rik Wrote: When we die is all over.
This is not a dogma, it is an observation.
Anecdotal tales of a few very select individuals (one!) who report (indirectly) on the afterlife provides us with no trustworthy reason to think that death is not the end of life.
(December 4, 2017 at 12:14 am)Little Rik Wrote: The consciousness is a product of the brain.
Again, it is an observation.
Brain dead people are not conscious.
Some forms of brain damage also lead to non-consciousness.
Other forms of brain damage have consciousness altering features.
Brain chemistry alterations lead to alternative mind states.
Brain electromagnetism alterations lead to alternative mind states.
There are so many... so many links between the brain and our awareness, our thinking capabilities, our consciousnesses... that it seems ludicrous to deny that the brain generates our consciousness.
But... if you have an alternate version of the origin of consciousness, feel free to present your findings to the scientific community as a research paper and collect you Nobel Prize.
(December 4, 2017 at 12:14 am)Little Rik Wrote: NDEs are the product of a brain devoid of blood and oxygen.
Most brains devoid of oxygen just stop working - a fade to black, like a dreamless sleep.
Some either during the oxygen deprivation state, or during the reoxygenation phase, or both phases, produce what have been called NDEs.
(December 4, 2017 at 12:14 am)Little Rik Wrote: Nobody created the universe and it can run without a God.
Why would the Universe not be able to run without a god?
Again, present your findings in the form of a research paper and collect your Nobel Prize!
(December 4, 2017 at 12:14 am)Little Rik Wrote: And the list of unproven claims taken as full truth goes on and on.
If this set of dogmas don t follow dogmas that religions carry on then tell me what it is?
Maybe it's just a list of claims that follow from the non-existence of any deity, given (and this is the important bit) that such existence hasn't been shown to be true.
Try to work the right way around these things.
