(June 6, 2010 at 1:20 am)rax Wrote: Here's the deal. I've heard a lot of atheists say that "Nothing happens to me when I die. I just end." This almost seems like a claim to knowledge. To me, to state that when one dies they blink into nothingness is almost a ... belief. Why not stay more open minded and say "I have utterly no idea..."?
Mine: I don't have a single clue what happens to whatever 'me' is when I die. I don't know if I will blink into nothingness any more than if I will wake up staring at Hades' boatman. I hope there is some sort of an afterlife, maybe something akin to Valhalla where everyone that has ever lived is there but at the same time I want to be practically all-powerful (so I can look back in time and see 'what really happened', among other things). I approach death with curiosity.
What is everyone's position on death? What say you?
Electrial firings of neurons in the brain are 'me'.
When these end so do I.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
