(February 6, 2018 at 3:54 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(February 6, 2018 at 3:53 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: 1) I assume that I will cease to exist after death, but I don't know for sure. Nobody does. Sure, people claim to know, but people claim a lot of things. People claim to have knowledge that we will be reincarnated after death. I don't assume that they know what they are talking about. How could they know? Same deal with heaven/hell. Nobody knows what happens after death. Nobody.Speak for yourself, lol.
I am speaking for myself. I've always liked how it was put in Plato's Apology:
Socrates Wrote:For to fear death, men, is in
fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is
to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether
death does not even happen to be the greatest of all goods for the
human being; but people fear it as though they knew well that it is
the greatest of evils.
You gotta be at least 1% agnostic about it, Khem. After all (unless you're going to put credence into NDEs like Rik) we have no information. My pet theory: we see a screen-- "Game Over (please insert coin)" ... I simply find oblivion to be more plausible.
