(April 22, 2015 at 10:52 am)robvalue Wrote: Lol yeah. I just can't do it, no matter how much someone goes "oh just trying believing in [nonsense]" I simply can't. If I could flip a switch and believe it for a day and flip it back, then maybe I would. But like you say, I'd be worried it would mess with me too much!
I really want to know what they see... Because I'm buggered if I can figure it out. Are they just mentally attributing causation to everything? I've never been in that frame of mind.
If memory serves me correctly Dawkins once claimed he wanted his death recorded so no one could claim he had a deathbed conversion.
Bad idea, if your brain has been injured or a disease puts you in decline that will no longer be you in a lucid state. I cannot say I will never fall back into religion in the future, but I won't be in my current lucid state if that happened.
Even something mentally traumatizing causing PTSD could easily cause that.
I can only say right now as long as my current lucid state continues and I die quickly like from a heart attack or an accident, the odds are going to be I will go to my grave an atheist. If I ever mumble garbage being doped up from drugs or mental decline, I don't want anything I say at that point being taken as a conversion.
