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Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
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RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
(March 14, 2018 at 12:47 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: If he had been a theist, his surviving ALS for almost 50 years would be considered a sign of divine favor by many.

Thank fuck he was an atheist!

(March 14, 2018 at 10:15 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:
(March 14, 2018 at 10:14 am)Brian37 Wrote: How fucking stupid, and I am sure many of these same theists are on other websites threatening atheists with hell if they die not believing. 

Hawking is only in our memories now, he isn't in an afterlife just like he didn't exist 4 billion years ago.

How do you know that?

How does he know what? That Hawking didn't exist 4 billion years ago? Or that Hawking isn't in an afterlife now?

Well the first one is easy to answer - we know Hawking didn't exist 4 billion years ago because he was born in 1942.

As for the afterlife thing - well there is no evidence to support claims that there is a such thing as an afterlife, and no reason to believe therefore that he is now in an afterlife. The rational thing to believe is that it simply doesn't exist until solid evidence proves it's existence. Yes, I know that believing that there is no afterlife is not the same as knowing it, before you point that out.

I have several problems with the concept of life after death...

Why bother with 3 score and 10 years of physical life, if you have a life afterwards? 

Some believe you're re-incarnated, some believe the afterlife is eternal. How can it be eternal if even the universe will end one day?

If you die and are re-incarnated, why? To what end, to learn from mistakes made in past lives? If so why do 7 billion of us, except a few, have no memory of previous lives?

If a person goes to the afterlife, where is it and how does he get there? Every dead person I've seen or heard about has stayed dead.

We know the physical body doesn't go to the afterlife, that's obviously a fact. So it's the soul right? But what is a soul, what physical properties does it have? Why would a soul be locked in a body during the duration of it's life, then magically can find the escape route when the body dies? If the soul is capable of existence outside a living body, and having an afterlife, then the soul does not need to have an actual life in a body, in the first place, which loops back to my first question..
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by Jehanne - March 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by Joods - April 21, 2018 at 10:51 am
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by Amarok - March 14, 2018 at 12:04 am
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by shadow - March 14, 2018 at 12:55 am
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by brewer - March 14, 2018 at 10:05 am
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by Norfolk And Chance - March 15, 2018 at 1:58 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by veoli - March 14, 2018 at 2:52 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by Joods - March 14, 2018 at 3:57 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by AFTT47 - March 17, 2018 at 10:32 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by Aegon - April 19, 2018 at 11:51 am
RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. - by John V - April 24, 2018 at 11:46 am

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