(February 28, 2018 at 6:06 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: There are certain things we do widely agree upon as human beings such as the idea that, if you drink poison, that would be lethal to you. There is no disagreement about that. So, we know this is a fact. But then there are things that we just argue and debate about. One side thinks they know the truth and the other side thinks they know the truth. But perhaps none of them know the truth and they just think they do. An example would be debates between believers in the afterlife and people who think this is the one and only life we have. There is much claimed evidence for the afterlife, but, at the same time, skeptics would reject such claimed evidence and they would claim that they instead have all the evidence to support the idea that this is the one and only life we have.
No, a history of making claims is not a history of testing and falsification and peer review.
How about humans fear death and or get sold these myths while young prior to formulating adult thinking skills? The idea of an afterlife really is a comic book reflection of our species evolutionary drive to continue. It is a false perception, an mental placebo. We only continue on in the memories of those who knew us while we were alive. Even then, there have been 5 mass extinction events on our planet, but our entire species too will go extinct even if we don't kill ourselves off by our own hand. After our planet dies and sun dies there will be no record of our species existence.
There are in our galaxy alone an estimated 200 billion stars, and an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in our observable universe. No, I do not think I am special to this universe, nor do I continue on after I die. Life after I die will feel the same to me as it did 4 billion years ago when I did not exist.
