(September 4, 2011 at 8:36 pm)Fred Wrote: Who cares about my evidence? I'm not making the claim. The materialists take it as gospel, oh they sure as fuck do, yet there's no evidence forthcoming, just calls to prove otherwise. Not. My. Job.
Materialism is just faith statements. Again, there's nothing wrong with that per se, but there's a lot wrong with not being able to see this because of the choir book obscuring your view.
And even in responding to this charge, it will just be endless iterations of "is not, where's your evidence?" It's the only song sung.
Is this a joke? I will try and break this down for you.
You said you had not seen compelling evidence that death was 'the end'. But I don't understand this at all. We know that when people die, their hearts stop beating and their brains stop functioning, which are basically the two required features of life. When that has happened, they are no longer capable of movement, communication or exhibiting any of the traits that once made them 'alive'.
So, that is the evidence that death is the end, the fact that all our bodily functions cease activity. How is that not compelling evidence?
There has never, ever been any credible evidence to suggest that any further consciousness or life exists outside of this. Surely only evidence of something else existing could lead you to doubt the statement that 'dead is dead'?
The only other option I can conceive of is that you are saying we literally have no idea as a species what happens at death so there's no point speculating on what happens. Which would be a really stupid thing to say.
